 While Zero Dark Thirty, admittedly a brilliant, troubling film, has taken two of the major Best Picture and Best Director Awards, I am still a firm believer that Lincoln will take the Academy Award for Best Picture. Steven Spielberg I am less sure about, though the members of the Academy will acknowledge that his brilliant decision to allow the actors and the screenplay to shine was a superb directorial decision, the stuff of Best Director indeed. Audiences use to his stunning visuals, (and who isn’t?), instead found a film that focused on character, thereby performance, on words, and atmosphere, something he accomplished with Schindler’s List (1993) which won him his first Oscar for Best Director. Read more on Why ‘Lincoln’ Can Still Win Picture……
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 The WGA has announced it’s nominees for the 2013 Writers Guild Awards for outstanding achievement in television, news, radio, promotional writing, and graphic animation. Most of the Emmy nominated field is represented here but some notable nominations including Girls being the new series, to be represented in both Comedy Series and New Series categories, and Breaking Bad receiving four individual episode nominations. The winners will be honored at the 2013 Writers Guild Awards on Sunday, February 17, 2013. Peep the full list after the jump! Read more on 2013 Writers Guild Awards nominations for TV, news, and radio announced!…
The lovely and talented Julianne Moore turned 52 this December 3rd. Born in 1960 as Julie Ann Smith, Moore got her big break after winning a Daytime Emmy Award in 1988 for her performance in the soap opera As the World Turns. In the early 90s, she received several supporting roles in films, including The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992), Benny and Joon (1993), and most notably in Robert Altman’s Short Cuts (1993).
Read more on Circuit 3: Julianne Moore…
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 JJ Abrams certainly knows how to deliver a teaser trailer for his films and he’s hit us with a doozy for his new film Star Trek Into Darkness, the sequel to the massively popular 2009 reboot Star Trek. Releasing not one, but two teaser trailers, we can see that the franchise is heading in a darker direction, with Benedict Cumberbatch unleashing all kinds of crazy on his quest for vengeance. Check out the two new trailers after the jump! Read more on ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ with two teaser trailers!…
Categories: Trailer Tags: Alice Eve, Anton Yelchin, benedict cumberbatch, Chris Pine, John Cho, Karl Urban, news, Simon Pegg, Star Trek, Star Trek Into Darkness, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana
 Taking a quick break from all the precursors for awards season, the Grammy’s have announced their nominations. Fun, Jay-Z, Kanye West, and the incredibly talented Frank Ocean lead with six nominations each. Black Keys and Miguel each received five nominations each. American Idol Season 1 Winner Kelly Clarkson received four nominations including Record of the Year for her hit, “Stronger.” Taylor Swift showed up with three nominations while Canadian Idol contestant Carly Rae Jaepsen received two.
Notably, Gary Ross’ The Hunger Games received its two Original songs nominated, “Safe & Sound” and “Abraham’s Daughter.” Composer Hans Zimmer of The Dark Knight Rises also received a nomination for his score.
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 A little known fact about Mark Magidson, the producer of ‘Samsara’ (2012), and Ron Fricke, the director of ‘Samsara’, is that they were the first to build their own IMAX camera and perfect a motion control time-lapse system that ran by a computer. In the early 80’s, Magidson met Fricke through a mutual friend and found that Fricke was attempting to build his own 70mm IMAX camera. With a mechanical background and a deep love for films, Magidson decided to join Fricke in his endeavor and they managed to build the camera that they shot ‘Chronos’ (1983) on. The film was, in a sense, a test of time-lapse techniques and abilities that have continued to evolve over making ‘Baraka’ and now ‘Samsara’. “Time-lapse has a way of revealing unfamiliar views of the familiar” says Magidson. Read more on Mark Magidson Talks About ‘Samsara’…
 Film: Mirror Mirror
For Your Consideration: Best Achievement in Costume Design
Director: Tarsem Singh
Screenplay: Marc Klein, Jason Keller and Melisa Wallack
Realistic Nominations: None
The bittersweet sentiment attached to posthumous Oscar nominations is an unavoidable and even reasonable reaction when they occur. Our more cynical age has also sadly brought immediate suspicion to those times when one passes away before seeing the Academy embrace their work. Did they really think so-and-so was Oscar worthy, or was this just a sentimental nod? In January of this year we received the terrible news that Eiko Ishioka – one of the most idiosyncratic and striking costume designers of her time – died from pancreatic cancer and three months later we were reminded of what cinema lost when Mirror Mirror debuted in theaters. Sentiment be damned, she deserves an Academy Award nomination one last time. Read more on Circuit Consideration – Eiko Ishioka…
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While Zero Dark Thirty, admittedly a brilliant, troubling film, has taken two of the major Best Picture and Best Director Awards, I am still a firm believer that Lincoln will take the Academy Award for Best Picture. Steven Spielberg I am less sure about, though the members of the Academy will acknowledge that his brilliant decision to allow the actors and the screenplay to shine was a superb directorial decision, the stuff of Best Director indeed. Audiences use to his stunning visuals, (and who isn’t?), instead found a film that focused on character, thereby performance, on words, and atmosphere, something he accomplished with Schindler’s List (1993) which won him his first Oscar for Best Director. Read more on Why ‘Lincoln’ Can Still Win Picture……
