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Best Picture and the Bridesmaids – Can the Guilds Push it Through?
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 [...]
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 
Discuss. Identify and examine connections to The Help and The Social Network. Don’t forget to drag Deathly Hallows into the debate. Sam Rami vs. Marc Webb, compare and contrast, after the cut.
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
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