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  • November 14, 2011

    Another Oscar nod for Meryl Streep seems like a no-brainer to most, but does she actually deserve it? You decide…

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    November 14, 2011

    Who are you rooting for?

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    November 14, 2011

    Though I suspect the Best Director category will be overflowing with talent this year, and the usual group of excellent achievements left out, there is a strong possibility Woody Allen could land a nomination as Best Director. It has been a long time since Woody Allen has won the Oscar as Best Director, not since his film Annie Hall (1977) though he has been oft nominated through the years including Interiors (1978), Broadway Danny Rose (1984), Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) and Bullets Over Broadway (1994). There should have been nominations for Manhattan (1979), The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985) and Match Point (2005), perhaps even Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008) as well, but other directors slipped in ahead of Allen. While there have been times through the years he fell out of favor with film critics and audiences, when he’s on he’s on, and no one does what he does better. Indeed there have been some terrible films, but with the average of a film a year, sometimes two, they are not all going to be brilliant, how could they be?? He is among the most nominated screenwriters in film history, and remains a comedic icon now in his seventies with an uncanny ability in writing for women. His move away from New York and the United States to make his films seems to have revived him and brought a new freshness to his work that was fading through the nineties. The decision was largely economical, as Allen found it easier to get funding outside of America for his work, but the new surroundings and culture have had a positive effect on the demanding filmmaker, bringing to his films a new energy, and in some cases, a darker Woody Allen. HIs brilliant Match point (2005) was totally unexpected from Allen, the sort of film that had been suggested in Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) but never had the killing been front and centre as part of the story. This was a dark and nasty film about getting away with murder, and though Martin Landau did the same in the 1989 film, we knew he would be forever haunted by what he had done, while the Jonathan Rhys Meyer character could not care less, and had already moved on when he pulled the trigger.

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    Author: Robert Hamer
    November 14, 2011
    • The events of the previous week – as far as the Oscar season goes – were, shall we say, a complete and utter shitstorm.  Obviously the Ratner fiasco was the biggest thing on every Oscar-watcher’s mind for the past few days, but we at The Awards Circuit had plenty of other content for y’all despite that, such as:

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