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Best Picture Speculation, and the Cannes Connection
Bigelow on the set of Zero Dark Thirty, one of 2012's most anticipated No one would have guessed that last year’s surprise bon bon entry into the Cannes Film Fest, The Artist, would have gone all the way to Oscar, winning virtually every award in its path. It would have been one thing had it [...]
Continue reading...Best Picture Hot List
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Brad Brevet does some spitballing as we head into another season where the bloggers and the critics will do all of the leg work for the Academy and the industry by testing the films to reduce them down to a manageable size. Therefore, the bloggers will look at what they think is Oscar bait, and/or [...]
Continue reading...Best Picture and the Bridesmaids – Can the Guilds Push it Through?
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Last week I was semi slapped down by Variety’s Peter Debruge for underestimating the Best Picture potential of Bridesmaids. He wasn’t referring specifically to me but all of “my kind.” You know, the bottom-feeding Oscar bloggers that respectable journalists are mostly too embarrassed to admit that they read, god forbid, or converse with? Oscar [...]
Continue reading...Best Picture and the Bridesmaids – Can the Guilds Push it Through?
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Last week I was semi slapped down by Variety’s Peter Debruge for underestimating the Best Picture potential of Bridesmaids. He wasn’t referring specifically to me but all of “my kind.” You know, the bottom-feeding Oscar bloggers that respectable journalists are mostly too embarrassed to admit that they read, god forbid, or converse with? Oscar [...]
Continue reading...Best Picture – Gold Derby Also Picks The Artist to Win
Monday, December 5, 2011
I think I am on the brink of getting fired this year for my squirrelly predictions on both Gold Derby and The Gurus of Gold. When you pick something outside of the general thinking you are often written off for being someone who is either advocating for the film you want to win, or else [...]
Continue reading...Best Picture – Gold Derby Also Picks The Artist to Win
Monday, December 5, 2011
I think I am on the brink of getting fired this year for my squirrelly predictions on both Gold Derby and The Gurus of Gold. When you pick something outside of the general thinking you are often written off for being someone who is either advocating for the film you want to win, or else [...]
Continue reading...Best Picture – Getting Down to It
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
With the help of many smart readers, it looks like the Academy’s new way of selecting Best Picture does not seem too hard to figure out. Here, Dean simplifies it: When thinking about how many nominees there are going to be ALL you have to think about is what will get 5% right away plus [...]
Continue reading...Best Picture Tabulation by the Numbers
Thursday, August 4, 2011
Thankfully, we have The Wrap’s Steve Pond on the case who understands the Academy Math a lot better than we do. Jeff Wells sent him a query so that he could get behind this whole 5% situation. Here is what Pond wrote back: “When the ballots are counted for the first time, the accountants will [...]
Continue reading...Best Picture Tabulation by the Numbers
Thursday, August 4, 2011
Thankfully, we have The Wrap’s Steve Pond on the case who understands the Academy Math a lot better than we do. Jeff Wells sent him a query so that he could get behind this whole 5% situation. Here is what Pond wrote back: “When the ballots are counted for the first time, the accountants will [...]
Continue reading...Best Picture Tabulation by the Numbers
Thursday, August 4, 2011
Thankfully, we have The Wrap’s Steve Pond on the case who understands the Academy Math a lot better than we do. Jeff Wells sent him a query so that he could get behind this whole 5% situation. Here is what Pond wrote back: “When the ballots are counted for the first time, the accountants will [...]
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Asides 
It’s been another great year at Cannes. When the sun finally came out it was like waking up from a dream. There are many things I will miss but I’m glad to be getting back home. Unfortunately I won’t be seeing David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis, Walter Salles’ On the Road, Lee Daniels’ The Paperboy or Jeff Nichols’ Mud. You don’t plan your trip around the screening schedule, but I don’t know that I could have done it differently anyway. C’est la vie.
Until next time, here are a few departing shots.
[photo gallery after the cut]
Monday, April 23, 2012
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