 Have you ever wanted to interview an Oscar contender? Are you particularly passionate about a film this year and want to make your case known? Well you’ll have a great opportunity to do both of those things as the Awards Circuit will be hosting our first ever LIVE Power Hour episode this Sunday at 6pm! We will have Ann Dowd, just named NBR’s Best Supporting Actress, on hand as well as get your opinions on what films we should be considering this awards season and any other questions you might have. Check out how you can call in after the jump! Read more on Awards Circuit goes LIVE! Join us on Sunday at 6pm with NBR Best Supporting Actress Ann Dowd!…
 A representative for the Weinstein Company has just confirmed that Christoph Waltz’s role in Django Unchained will be campaigned as a Supporting role for the rest of the awards season. Waltz, who plays Dr. King Schultz ,will now compete against co-stars Leonardo DiCaprio, who just won the National Board of Review’s award for Supporting Actor and Academy Award nominee, Samuel L. Jackson. Waltz was named one of the runner-ups in the recent New York Film Critics Circle. just earlier this week.
Read more on Weinstein Company Confirms Christoph Waltz back in SUPPORTING for ‘Django Unchained’…
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It’s time to visit the week that was via our Around the Circuit piece, where we look back at articles that we feel are worth your time covering the Oscar race, new releases, or really just anything film related.
Link(s) of the week:
Following the announcements of the New York Film Critics’ Circle and the National Board of Review winners on Monday and Wednesday, respectively, Oliver Lyttelton of The Playlist reminded us that it is a long awards season, and that neither groups are great indicators as to who will prevail at the Oscars.
Read more on Around the Circuit: December 1st – December 7th…
 In 2007 no one saw the Best Actor nomination for Tommy Lee Jones in In the Valley of Elah (2007), it was one of those happy surprises that reminded us the acting branch really does watch the films and pay some attention. Way back in 1975 there was another such shock when James Whitmore received a Best Actor nod for his filmed stage show Give ‘em Hell Harry (1975), though it was not quite as deserving as Jones’ nomination.
With the strong reviews coming in for Brad Pitt in Killing Them Softly (2012), could he knock out one of the so-called locks and be in the category come Oscar night? He is well liked, the Academy likes him, critics like him and he has grown substantially as an actor through the years. For my money he should have been nominated for Best Actor for The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) and for Babel (2006). Last year he won the New York Film Critics Award for Best Actor for Moneyball (2011) and was an Oscar nominee, and I think discounting him this year is a huge mistake. Read more on The Underestimation of the Lead Actor Brad Pitt in ‘Killing Them Softly’…
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 Perhaps no film this year has been easier to make fun of in advance of its release than ‘Hyde Park on Hudson’. I know I had a few silly names for it earlier in 2012 when comparing it to something like ‘My Week with Marilyn’, but go figure…I prefer this film to that one. When I sat down to watch it during the New York Film Festival I already was aware that it had fallen from the status of being an Oscar contender, but somehow I emerged rather amused by the flick. It’s hardly great art, and is iffy as a biopic of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but it’s got some strong acting and works as a comedy of manners. Bill Murray is rather good as FDR, though the film focuses far less on him than you’d expect. More time is given to Laura Linney’s character, who’s our entry point into the story. Linney and Murray are very solid, but neither is quite nomination worthy for me. This is an easy movie to pick on, but I was charmed by what director Roger Michell and scribe Richard Nelson came up with and find myself recommending it now that it’s opening this weekend. Don’t expect it to be on the level of the awards hopefuls surrounding it, but taken on its own, ‘Hyde Park on Hudson’ is an entertaining little film.
Read more on Hyde Park on Hudson (***)…
Categories: Film Reviews Tags: Bill Murray, Biopic, Elizabeth Marvel, Elizabeth Wilson, Hyde Park on Hudson, Laura Linney, olivia colman, Olivia Williams, Oscar hopeful, Richard Nelson, Roger Michell, Samuel West
 Last week I was invited to interview the actor/writer/director Edward Burns, a man who’s career I’ve followed with a great deal of interest for quite some time now. I’m a big fan of his new film ‘The Fitzgerald Family Christmas’, which is now out in limited release (my review can be found here), and he was more than happy to sit down with me and chat about all manner of things. The transcription begins shortly after him asking about my short time as a member of the New York City Police Department (his father Edward J. Burns was a former member of the NYPD as well, though he was a sergeant and the department spokesman, whereas I left early on in the Academy). The transcription of the interview can be found below:
Read more on Chat with Edward Burns…
Being that this weekend kicks off with “a date which will live in infamy,” it’s fitting that FDR makes a big-screen appearance in Hyde Park on the Hudson. Toss in some romantic comedies, some foreign features, and some drama and you’ve got some options to hold you till “the big one” next week (The Hobbit, of course).
Hyde Park on the Hudson
Language: English
Rating: R
Genre: Biography/Comedy/Drama
Director: Roger Michell
Starring: Bill Murray, Laura Linney, Olivia Williams
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Have you ever wanted to interview an Oscar contender? Are you particularly passionate about a film this year and want to make your case known? Well you’ll have a great opportunity to do both of those things as the Awards Circuit will be hosting our first ever LIVE Power Hour episode this Sunday at 6pm! We will have Ann Dowd, just named NBR’s Best Supporting Actress, on hand as well as get your opinions on what films we should be considering this awards season and any other questions you might have. Check out how you can call in after the jump! Read more on Awards Circuit goes LIVE! Join us on Sunday at 6pm with NBR Best Supporting Actress Ann Dowd!…
