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The Oscar race is finally over, which means we’ve got about three weeks to fill before the next Oscar race begins, which means it’s time to talk about the Oscar show itself, specifically how bad it was. If you were so inclined, you could have spent the better part of Monday just reading articles —…
The Academy Awards are one week away and, at this point, it looks like the big winners will be the French silent movie tribute “The Artist,” the American tribute to French silent movies “Hugo,” and other films, like “The Help” and “Midnight in Paris,” set in or obsessed with the past. Clearly, this year’s Oscars…
“You keep doing the right thing. And good things will happen to you.” Those are the words of high school football coach Bill Courtney to his team, the Manassas Tigers. Based on the incredible power of “Undefeated,” the film about Courtney and the Tigers, one has to assume that its directors, Dan Lindsay, and T.J.…
The race for the Academy Awards is a high-stakes, high-pressure game. But Michael R. Roskam and Matthias Schoenaerts, the writer/director and star of “Bullhead,” a brutal and beautiful nominee for the Oscars’ Best Foreign Language Film, seemed downright relaxed as we chatted in their New York hotel room three weeks before the big show. The…
In a great piece called “I like/hate ‘The Artist:’ How the Academy Awards slant our views of movies,” Scott Tobias over at The A.V. Club has done a superb job of putting into words a lot of my own feelings about this Oscar season, namely the fact that “The Artist” — which is cheerful, charming, and…
“The Adventures of Tintin,” “Drive” and “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2″ all were surprisingly snubbed.
So Brett Ratner’s out as producer of the 2012 Academy Awards. Eddie Murphy’s out as host. Who’s in? So far, that would be Brian Grazer, who has been tapped to replace Ratner. Grazer — who, coincidentally, was a producer of Ratner’s new film “Tower Heist” — won an Oscar for “A Beautiful Mind” and has…
Remember a few hours ago, when I told you about the controversy brewing over 2012 Academy Awards producer Brett Ratner‘s gay slur at a post-screening Q&A for “Tower Heist?” And remember when I said that “given the swiftness of his apology and the soundness of the vote of confidence from [Academy President Tom] Sherak, I…
There’s a firestorm brewing in Southern California this week, and it has nothing to with high winds or drought conditions. As first reported by Vulture, “Tower Heist” director and 2012 Academy Awards producer Brett Ratner shocked an audience at the ArcLight Cinemas in Los Angeles last week by responding to a question about his attitude…
TMZ reports that Gil Cates, the famous producer of a record fourteen Academy Award telecasts in 18 years, has died. He was 77 years old. From their post: “Gilbert’s body was discovered last night in a parking lot at UCLA. Emergency teams responded to a call on the campus around 5:50PM, but were unable to…
Even though we’ll never forgive him for creating and legitimizing the use of “air quotes,” giving amateur comedians a physical gag they needed like a hole in the head, Steve Martin is still what experts like to refer to as “a funny motherf*cker.” To wit, an open letter the actor, comedian and writer has penned…
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today that they’ve found their host for the 2012 Academy Awards which, as we’ve previously discussed, will be co-produced by “Rush Hour” and “X-Men: The Last Stand” director Brett Ratner. It’s going to beEddie Murphy, Oscar-nominated actor (for his supporting role 2006′s “Dreamgirls”) and, of course,…
I can see the posters now: “From the director of ‘Red Dragon’ and ‘After the Sunset’ comes a new kind of Oscars!” Yes, that’s right: Brett Ratner, he of the “Rush Hour” series and assorted other Hollywood pictures, will co-produce the 84th Annual Academy Awards with returning producer and director Don Mischer. Here’s what Academy…
Just two years after switching their decades old structure of five Best Picture nominees, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, has announced another major shakeup to the nominations process, starting with the 2012 Academy Awards. Now instead of a fixed number of nominees, the Best Picture category will be determined by the percentages…
