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With the Oscars wrapping up a few days ago, it’s hard not to reflect over the nominees, winners and how somethings didn’t seem to add up. Ben Affleck isn’t nominated for Best Director, but Argo wins Best Picture. I guess they loved everything about the film, just not necessarily the directing. Sounds crazy, right?
This year, the category of best actor caught my attention and sent an alarm through my film geek nervous system. | Full Story
This 85th annual Academy Awards show is proving to be anything but traditional. Usually mere moments after the Best Picture award is doled out, the credits begin to roll and the audience is left to mull over another year of moderately surprising Oscar awards. With first time host Seth MacFarlane, things are going to be very, very different this year.
Oscar producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron have added yet another star studded musical performance to this year’s telecast. | Full Story
Ben Affleck’s Argo has been receiving plenty of buzz in the awards arena. Most recently the real life drama was named by the Writers Guild of America as one of the top film scripts of 2012. Other film scripts who were also noted under this category went to Zero Dark Thirty.
Argo, in particular, has been receiving a lot of praise from award shows and has been the main topic for this years coveted Best Picture winner. | Full Story
Just when you thought this years Academy Awards couldn’t get any more musically explosive, producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron book the one and only, Barbara Streisand.
Barbra Streisand will join a long list of exciting performers for the 85th annual Academy Awards. Adele will perform her theme from Skyfall during a James Bond tribute, while Norah Jones is set to sing ”Everybody Needs A Best Friend“ from Ted. Both songs are nominated for ‘Best Original Song.” As we told you last week, there will also be a tribute to musicals made into movies. | Full Story
On the heels of announcing Adele’s musical performance in the James Bond tribute, the 85th Annual Academy Awards will also feature a tribute to musicals over the last ten years. Chicago, Dreamgirls, and, of course, Les Misérables will be featured in the segment.
“The musical as a motion picture genre has had a remarkable renaissance in the last decade,” said producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron as seen on Coming Soon. | Full Story
Hunger Games star Jennifer Lawrence may be dangerous with the bow, but the award winning actress can also do damage when it comes to clowning Oscar nominees.
It all began when Lawrence said “I beat Meryl” while accepting her Golden Globe award. Some thought that she disrespected Meryl Streep by taking an unnecessary shot at the veteran actress. However, the Silver Lining Playbook star clarified her statement on SNL, reminding the audience she got the line from the movie, The First Wife Club. | Full Story
Much like Christmas, rumblings over the Oscars seem to be starting earlier every year. Entertainment Weekly reports that the submissions are officially in for the Best Foreign Language Film category. I don’t really care much about the Oscars, and this particular award illustrates a lot of the reasons I have for that. Nothing about the category’s rules make much sense. Why must a film be submitted for consideration by a country, and why only one film per country? | Full Story
Last year, A Separation became the first Iranian film to win the Oscar for Best Foreign Language feature. But this year, Variety reports, the country will not be submitting a film for consideration for the award (the question of whether it makes any sense at all that this is the way movies are put in the running for the award is an entirely separate matter).
Iranian culture minister Muhammad Hosseini explained the boycott as a response to “an intolerable insult to the Prophet of Islam,” referring to the now-infamous trailer for the anti-Islam film Innocence of Muslims. | Full Story
The Dark Knight Rises may be the biggest winner at the Academy Awards next year.
There is no doubt that, so far, Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises is the most anticipated film of the year. In addition, it is very likely that the finale to Nolan’s Batman trilogy will win a ton of accolades during the upcoming awards season. After all, The Dark Knight has an award winning legacy. | Full Story
Martin Scorsese’s 3D film Hugo and silent movie The Artist took home five wins apiece.
The Iron Lady was the only other film to take home multiple awards with two honors, including Meryl Streep’s third Oscar for Best Actress in a Leading Role.
Other films which represented with wins include, The Descendants, The Help, A Separation, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Undefeated, Beginners, The Muppets, and Midnight in Paris. | Full Story
Movies have enriched Dan Schindel's life so much that he decided
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