 Two (or perhaps three) of our presumed locks missed out on Director citations this year at the Academy Awards. It happened and now we have to try to sift out the “real” contender that will stand on stage at the end of the evening to be crowned Best Picture of the Year. Many, including myself, think Ben Affleck’s Argo stands a real chance to win it all if enough momentum builds in its favor. Our own Joey Magidson has a piece going up tomorrow to break it down more in-depth.
Today’s question might be one of our toughest yet.
Can you think of a film you would crown worthy of being named Best Picture of the Year without having its director make your personal five for Best Director?
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The nominations for the 15th Annual Costume Designers Guild (CDG) Awards have been announced. The awards honor excellence in costume design throughout movies, television, and commercials, with the winners to be unveiled on Tuesday, February 19th, 2013. Being that the CDG divides their film awards into three categories (fantasy, contemporary, and period), it should be no surprise to learn that all five films nominated for Oscar’s Best Costume Design are nominated here. Have a look at the nominees after the jump.
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The Weinstein Company is pretty proud of Quentin Tarantino’s latest effort, Django Unchained. Aside from the two Golden Globe wins for Best Supporting Actor (Christoph Waltz) and Best Screenplay (Quentin Tarantino), and along with the five Oscar nominations the film received (including Best Picture), Django Unchained has officially become Tarantino’s highest grossing film to date (domestically). Have a look at The Weinstein Company’s official release after the jump.
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SAG loves to trickle its announcements in slowly, and who can blame them? It keeps them in the discussion after all. So after  announcing the first wave of presenters yesterday, they have announced a few more names today. Nicole Kidman, Jeff Daniels, Neil Patrick Harris, Julianna Margulies, and Busy Phillips, along with SAG-AFTRA Co-Presidents Ken Howard and Roberta Reardon have been chosen to present at the ceremony. I’m sure we’ll have some more names tomorrow, and then Oscar will do the same thing and make us bloggers work overtime keeping up. See the official release after the jump.
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On Wednesday, January 16th, Lincoln: An American Journey - a behind-the-scenes special on the making of Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln - premiered on iTunes. Lincoln has crossed the $150 million mark at the box office, and pulled in a field-leading 12 Oscar nominations. The special dives into the 12 year adventure the filmmakers went on to bring this film to the big screen, and features interviews with Steven Spielberg, Daniel Day-Lewis, and Sally Field. Have a look at the press release after the jump.
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 For those who don’t follow or don’t remember, in Best Picture I’ll be looking at essentially what the next 10 films could have been for the Academy. It’s partially just for fun (and keep in mind…this isn’t how I would have preferred things to have gone, or else the lists below would be quite different), but I’ve always felt that it also shines an interesting light on what the Oscar nominations could have looked like…for better or worse. Some of these choices are rather obvious, while others are just guesses. Either way, this is nothing if not a good conversation starter, so be sure to let me know what you think the Alternate nominations would have been like. For now though, let’s get started and see what the next level down of Oscar nominees would look like!
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Cary Grant was born Archibald Alexander Leach on January 18, 1904. But before becoming the charming actor with the delightful accent, this legend of classic Hollywood had to climb the ladder all the way up from his early days as a vaudeville entertainer. In his youth, Grant worked any job he could get in the entertainment biz – from street mime to stilt walker to the stages of Broadway in several musicals. In 1931, still using his birth name Archie Leach, he traveled to Hollywood where he signed with Paramount Pictures who promptly assisted in changing his name to Cary Grant.
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How to Survive a Plague, The Invisible War, and 5 Broken Cameras have all been nominated for the Best Documentary Feature Oscar, and are now getting a second run courtesy of the Lincoln Center in New York City. The films will run for one additional week starting Friday, January 18th, so this provides a good chance for those near the theater to cross three more films off your list before Oscar night.
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