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After 50 years of being a wildly popular franchise, the 85th annual Academy Awards will finally honor James Bond. While the verdict is still out on whether or not the newest bond film, Skyfall, will earn any Oscar nominations, at least Agent 007 will still have a strong presence at the prestigious awards show. The Academy’s official announcement decided to honor the franchise for the 50th anniversary of the Bond film. | Full Story
Just after SAG and Golden Globes nominations, the final trailer for the highly anticipated Zero Dark Thirty has hit the web. The film has already garnered critical acclaim days before its limited release on December 19th and official release on January 11, 2013.
Academy Award winning director Katheryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal have teamed up for what seems to be another Hurt Locker type success. The two paired back in 2009 to create The Hurt Locker. | Full Story
Oscar nominations have been made, and it appears the Academy overlooked Michael Fassbender for a nomination for best actor. For the fans that place Fassbender on the same tier as George Clooney and Brad Pitt, this was a shameful disappointment.
Steve McQueen, the director of Shame, strongly believes the British actor’s performance was ignored by the Academy because of Oscar voters’ biases about sex. The acclaimed director exclaimed:
“In America they’re too scared of sex, that’s why he wasn’t nominated, If you look at the best actor list you’re saying ‘Michael Fassbender is not on that list?’ It’s kind of crazy. | Full Story
Winners of Academy Awards are chosen from an exclusive group of Hollywood insiders. But just how exclusive that group might be may shock some or may not be a surprise at all to the various minority groups in the nation.
According to a study conducted by The Los Angeles Times, the Academy, which consists of 5,765 members, is 94 percent Caucasian and 77 percent male. Only 14 percent of the Academy is younger than 50. | Full Story
Michael Douglas has been tapped to present at this year’s Academy Awards telecast. This will be one of the first major public appearances the Oscar winning actor has made since recovering from cancer.
Since the awards are kept secret until the broadcast, it’s unclear what award Douglas will present at the Oscars. The year Douglas’ wife, Catherine Zeta-Jones, won best supporting actress for Chicago, he and his father, Kirk Douglas, presented the best picture award to that film. | Full Story
The 84th Academy Awards nominations have been announced today at 5:30 AM PT in the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater. The Oscars for exceptional film achievements of 2011 will be presented on February 26th at the Kodak Theatre and televised live by the ABC Television Network. The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 225 countries worldwide. Check out the list of all the nominations below.
Nominations for the 84th Academy Awards
Best Picture
“The Artist” Thomas Langmann, Producer
“The Descendants” Jim Burke, Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor, Producers
“Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close” Scott Rudin, Producer
“The Help” Brunson Green, Chris Columbus and Michael Barnathan, Producers
“Hugo” Graham King and Martin Scorsese, Producers
“Midnight in Paris” Letty Aronson and Stephen Tenenbaum, Producers
“Moneyball” Michael De Luca, Rachael Horovitz and Brad Pitt, Producers
“The Tree of Life” Nominees to be determined
“War Horse” Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy, Producers
Directing
“The Artist” Michel Hazanavicius
“The Descendants” Alexander Payne
“Hugo” Martin Scorsese
“Midnight in Paris” Woody Allen
“The Tree of Life” Terrence Malick
Actor in a Leading Role
Demián Bichir in “A Better Life”
George Clooney in “The Descendants”
Jean Dujardin in “The Artist”
Gary Oldman in “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy”
Brad Pitt in “Moneyball”
Actor in a Supporting Role
Kenneth Branagh in “My Week with Marilyn”
Jonah Hill in “Moneyball”
Nick Nolte in “Warrior”
Christopher Plummer in “Beginners”
Max von Sydow in “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close”
Actress in a Leading Role
Glenn Close in “Albert Nobbs”
Viola Davis in “The Help”
Rooney Mara in “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”
Meryl Streep in “The Iron Lady”
Michelle Williams in “My Week with Marilyn”
Actress in a Supporting Role
Bérénice Bejo in “The Artist”
Jessica Chastain in “The Help”
Melissa McCarthy in “Bridesmaids”
Janet McTeer in “Albert Nobbs”
Octavia Spencer in “The Help”
Animated Feature Film
“A Cat in Paris” Alain Gagnol and Jean-Loup Felicioli
“Chico & Rita” Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal
“Kung Fu Panda 2″ Jennifer Yuh Nelson
“Puss in Boots” Chris Miller
“Rango” Gore Verbinski
Foreign Language Film
“Bullhead” Belgium
“Footnote” Israel
“In Darkness” Poland
“Monsieur Lazhar” Canada
“A Separation” Iran
Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
“The Descendants” Screenplay by Alexander Payne and Nat Faxon & Jim Rash
“Hugo” Screenplay by John Logan
“The Ides of March” Screenplay by George Clooney & Grant Heslov and Beau Willimon
“Moneyball” Screenplay by Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin. | Full Story
The Academy dropped the official poster for the 84th Oscars today. Deadline reports that the theme is “Celebrate the Movies.” Designed by Anthony Goldshmidt, and Mark and Karen Crawford. Check out the nice work they did below.
The Oscars will be live and in living color February 2012 on ABC. Billie Crystal is set to host and Brian Grazer is set to produce, following Bret Ratner and Eddie Murphy controversial resignation from their duties for the 84th Oscars. | Full Story
Its Official Eddie Murphy is going to host the academy Awards. There was a lot of talk over the weekend about Murphy emceeing the event. However, over the holiday weekend and after a lot of big names offered their service to host, AMPAS
President Tom Sherak Only had the comedian on his mind. Murphy was chosen a lot soon then Usual. They are generally always chosen in the month of January. | Full Story
Movies have enriched Dan Schindel's life so much that he decided
the best way to give back was to become a critic. In addition to Who Got the
Role?, he writes for ScreenPicks, We Are Movie Geeks, Off to
See the Elephant, and several other sites. He spent a year watching and
reviewing a documentary every day for his blog, Days of Docs, so now he
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