 It’s time to dive, dive in deep…well, at least as deep as you can in May. As I attempted to unveil the newest set of Oscar Predictions, I realized how many promising films are left to be seen in the remaining seven months. As of now, the only real Best Picture contender that has the legs to make it until the end of the year would be Sarah Polley’s Stories We Tell, and that’s a longshot at best given its genre. You can make arguments for films like The Place Beyond the Pines by Derek Cianfrance and even Mud by Jeff Nichols but those will need a well-placed DVD release with a focused campaign, something I’m not sure the studios are willing to bet on. Cianfrance’s film also has an outside shot for Screenplay and a Supporting Actor mention for Ryan Gosling. If anything, this helps him for Nicolas Winding Refn’s Only God Forgives, if they’re feeling like recognizing him a second time. It feels like eons ago when Gosling was nominated for Ryan Fleck’s Half Nelson (2006) and then later missed other opportunities for Lars and the Real Girl (2007), Blue Valentine (2010), and Drive (2011). Not sure when it will be before he gets back onto the Oscar radar.
Down below, why don’t we start taking a look at the slate by each studio and assess where their money will and should go throughout the season. Read more on Oscar Circuit – The Studio Assessment Part 1…
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 Raves continue to pour in for Sarah Polley’s Stories We Tell, the documentary about the family origins of writer/director Polley’s life. Standing sturdy at a 96% on Rotten Tomatoes, one has to fathom if the expansion of the Best Picture field can lend itself to a documentary the way it has for animated and science fiction films.
As we get ready to get into the summer months, no film has presented itself as a strong Best Picture contender unless you believe in the odds for Derek Cianfrance’s The Place Beyond the Pines with Ryan Gosling. A long shot at best, all the films listed on the TRACKER, haven’t been released for audiences to gander upon just yet. We know that Richard Linklater’s Before Midnight and Ryan Coogler’s Fruitvale Station will have strong possibilities depending on how the rest of the year shapes up. Read more on 2014 Oscar Predictions – Is ‘Stories We Tell’ Our First Best Picture Contender?…
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 As April has completely come out of nowhere and become fully present, I’ve updated the new Oscar Tracker to keep in mind everything that has already been released this year so far or have screened at major festivals like Sundance, SXSW, and Tribeca.
There’s no super-duper “out there” contender that looks like it can go all the way as of today with the exception of Richard Linklater’s Before Midnight. While the film is an absolute marvel, it won’t be determined until the autumn if it can sustain throughout the summer and become a leading contender like last year with Moonrise Kingdom and Beasts of the Southern Wild. Obviously, the latter was the only film to crack the Best Picture lineup but if we’re in store for a change like AMPAS going back to five Best Picture nominees, as some have speculated, a small indie film like Linklater’s could get lost throughout the summer and fall months. As of now, Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy could show up with Linklater in Adapted Screenplay but on their performances alone, they will warrant some consideration. Both are superb in their roles and will have their champions throughout the year. Read more on First Quarter Round-Up – Are There Any Oscar Contenders?…
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 It’s March! We get started right away and over the past few weeks after the Oscar ceremony, I took some brief stabs at some categories. Those have been tinkered with and will be reflected on the actual Oscar Prediction pages in the next couple of days. The full listing of predicted nominees is on the sidebar with the list of contenders on the Oscar Prediction pages for Picture, Director, Lead Actor, Lead Actress, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, Original Screenplay, Adapted Screenplay, and Animated Feature.
Obviously categories like Original Song are merely speculation because we don’t know what film will have an eligible song attached. Disney and Pixar films are good for a song or two so that’s always a good place to start. Read more on Oscar Circuit – 2014 Films and Minority Contenders…
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 The 2013 Oscars are over! I’m a little at loss for words about the actual Oscar ceremony which were for the most part, subpar. The only jaw-dropping moment came when Mark Wahlberg and the CGI Ted announced a tie in Best Sound Editing for Skyfall and Zero Dark Thirty. For me, that’s not enough. They just seemed more “influenced” then usual in the winners and even nominees. Will Argo stand the test of time as one of “great” Best Picture winners? I’m not sure but it just seemed all a bit too safe for my liking. But I digress.
It’s already time to take a look at what’s coming during the year for us to look forward to. 2013 was an outstanding year for cinema. Ben Affleck’s Argo reigned supreme at the Academy Awards this past Sunday winning three Oscars including Best Picture. The Board of Governors will come together soon and likely throw out some changes to the ceremony like going back to a year of five or something that will turn our heads but as of now, let’s look at it with a blank slate. 2013 has big shoes to fill both in performances and filmmaking.
I’ve begun the big Year-In-Advanced predictions with four categories but before the big reveal, let’s look at them as a whole. What does the year have to offer movie-lovers?
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And the nominees are:
Amour – Michael Haneke
Beasts of the Southern Wild – Benh Zeitlin
Life of Pi – Ang Lee
Lincoln – Steven Spielberg
Silver Linings Playbook – David O. Russell
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 Years from now when I think back on 2012 and what it had to offer, I’m sure the cinematic landscape that was presented will surely stick out as many directors and filmmakers pushed the thematic narrative with breathtaking visuals, stupendous performances, and uniquely driven story structures. One thing that will be near the top was the daunting task the Academy, pundits, and even myself, had in narrowing down the Lead Actor race to five simple slots.
There were debates going back and forth about who deserved a spot, who was miscategorized, and who was given the light of a day for consideration. The Academy did an admirable job and when push comes to shove, these five performances that are nominated are all worthy of citation and acceptable as a Best Actor winner.
The Nominees Are:
- Bradley Cooper - Silver Linings Playbook
- Daniel Day-Lewis - Lincoln
- Hugh Jackman - Les Miserables
- Joaquin Phoenix - The Master
- Denzel Washington - Flight
Read the breakdown of each nominee below:
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 Personally, I don’t understand the nominations this year! I don’t agree with them! I mean, who, in their right mind, would nominate ‘The Pirates! Band of Misfits‘ (Sony) over ‘Rise of the Guardians‘ (Par/DW) or ‘ParaNorman‘ (Focus) over ‘The Lorax‘ (Uni.)?! I am baffled by the official Oscar nominations for this category. Robbing the Paramount/DreamWorks studios of a nomination, though I do feel ‘Brave’ and ‘Wreck-It Ralph’ (BV) deserve the nominations. And why didn’t ‘Ice Age‘ get nominated? Enough speculation…
And the Nominees Are…
Brave — Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman
Frankenweenie — Tim Burton
ParaNorman — Sam Fell and Chris Butler
The Pirates! Band of Misfits — Peter Lord
Wreck-It Ralph — Rich Moore Read more on Oscar Circuit: Animated Feature…
 And the Nominees are…
Alan Arkin – Argo
Oscar Scene: “Argo fuck yourself”
Robert De Niro – Silver Linings Playbook
Oscar Scene: “When life reaches out with a woman like this it’s a sin if you don’t reach back, I’m telling you its a sin if you don’t reach back!”
Philip Seymour Hoffman – The Master
Oscar Scene: Lancaster Dodd processing Freddie Quell
Tommy Lee Jones – Lincoln
Oscar Scene: Thaddeus Stevens facing off with Mary Todd Lincoln
Christoph Waltz – Django Unchained
Oscar Scene: Dr. King Shultz introducing himself to Django
There may be no category as up in the air this time around as Best Supporting Actor. Very few people are confident about their picks, and this is certainly as wide open as any the category has seen in years. It’s also noteworthy for featuring five nominees who are each prior winners, including one actor seeking his third Oscar. At least a three horse race, Best Supporting Actor may very well come down to who actually gave the best performance of the group. There are 100% other factors to consider, but with this tight a contest, it’s conceivable that voters actually took quality into account. The gentlemen nominated all are favorite sons to one degree or another, so lets dive in and take a look at them, shall we?
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 It is the costume designer’s job to properly design a wardrobe of costumes that symbolize the characters in a film and to set the right mood for every scene. The following nominees did a fantastic job completing this task.
And the nominees are…
- Anna Karenina- Jacqueline Durran
- Les Miserables- Paco Delgado
- Lincoln- Joanna Johnston
- Mirror Mirror- Eiko Ishioka
- Snow White & The Huntsman- Colleen Atwood
It’s no lie Oscar voters tend to go for a particular style of costumes. With past winners including Alice in Wonderland, Young Victoria, The Duchess, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, Marie Antoniette, and Memoirs of a Geisha, it’s easy to see Oscar voters like elaborate costumes. But sometimes we get fooled and films like The Aviator and The Artist take the top honor. I can’t say I disagree with their voting process; if I was voting I too would vote for the costumes that pay the most attention to detail over a simple suit. This category has been locked up for a while with Anna Karenina winning most of the costume design awards. Let’s review the nominees for Best Costume Design. Read more on Oscar Circuit: Best Costume Design…
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As one of the more obscure categories eligible for an Academy Award, the Documentary Short (along with the other two shorts categories: Live Action and Animated) has benefited in recent years from greater public exposure due to screenings offered nationwide in the weeks leading up the awards show. Previous winners include last year’s Saving Face, Twin Towers (2003), and Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O’Brien (1996).
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Woody Allen made history when “Midnight In Paris” earned the filmmaker his third Oscar and 15th nomination for screenwriting last year.
Whether viewed as a consolation prize for a well-regarded film that has no chance of winning Best Picture, or a sign that a film in the discussion for the Academy’s highest honor has broad and far-reaching support, the Writing categories – Adapted Screenplay and Original Screenplay are not always that easy to predict. A case could be made that more adventurous films land in the Academy’s screenplay categories, but with regard to the Original Screenplay category, only five films (Thelma & Louise, The Usual Suspects, Almost Famous, Talk To Her, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) have won the Oscar since 1990 without landing a Best Picture nomination. Three Best Picture nominees are competing in this category and it would seem that for the other two nominees, being featured in the clips package will be as close as they get to scoring a win this year.
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 Best Achievement in Sound Mixing
- Argo - John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff and Jose Antonio Garcia
- Les Miserables - Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson and Simon Hayes
- Life of Pi - Ron Bartlett, D.M. Hemphill and Drew Kunin
- Lincoln - Andy Nelson, Gary Rydstrom and Ronald Judkins
- Skyfall - Scott Millan, Greg P. Russell and Stuart Wilson
Arguably one of the most competitive years in Oscar history, the Sound Mixing category follows the same suit where any of the five nominated films can win. While there are some nominations that are questionable, there’s no denying the multitude and passion these mixers have for their craft. As many eyes that read this article can easily name the stars of Argo, the person who played Mary Todd Lincoln, not many, I dare to say any, can name any Sound Mixers besides the ones that follow in line with Oscar. If there are unsung heroes of cinema, a Sound craftsman (or woman) is near the top of the list. Read more on Oscar Circuit: Sound Mixing…
 Original Score is one of the most interesting categories year in and year out, with the list of films that were disqualified being almost as good of a list as the nominees. This year was not only a great year for film but film music, with the 5 nominees beating out many worthy adversaries to make it in the Oscar lineup.
The nominees are:
Anna Karenina – Dario Marinelli
Argo – Alexandre Desalt
Life of Pi – Mychael Danna
Lincoln – John Williams
Skyfall – Thomas Newman
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 And the Nominees are:
Adam and Dog (Director Minkyu Lee)
Fresh Guacamole (Director Adam Pesapane)
Head Over Heels (Director Timothy Reckart)
Maggie Simpson in ‘The Longest Daycare’ (Director David Silverman)
Paperman (Director John Kahrs)
While the Animated Feature films each year often get the most attention, some years actually feature the best animation being done in the short film. In my humble opinion, 2012 was just such a year, so it was very pleasing to see the Best Animated Short category as stacked as it is this year. A pair of the five nominated shorts are better than any of the feature animated flicks that got nominated, and honestly better than any that were released last year. The category itself isn’t easy to predict, but I’m going to be taking a crack at it anyway. Lets get started and begin by getting to know the nominated works!
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Iran’s historic Oscar win for “A Separation” took home Best Foreign Language Film for 2011.
Always a hot button topic for debate amongst Oscarwatchers and many of us here at Awards Circuit, this year’s nominees for Best Foreign Language Film embody a melting pot of opulence, grit, political commentary, grand and epic adventure, and the true test of a couple’s love and devotion.
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And the nominees are:
Argo – William Goldenberg
Life of Pi – Tim Squyres
Lincoln – Michael Kahn
Silver Linings Playbook – Jay Cassidy and Crispin Struthers
Zero Dark Thirty – Dylan Tichenor and William Goldenberg
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 This year we don’t have the fortune of knowing exactly who will win Best Actress. We have five nominees that include two frontrunners, one possible upset and two actresses who should be honored to receive recognition for their work.
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 And the Nominees are:
- Asad (South Africa/USA)
- Buzkashi Boys (Afghanistan/USA)
- Henry (Canada)
- Death of a Shadow (France/Belgium)
- Curfew (USA)
There’s no better platform for up-and-coming filmmakers to show what they’re capable of than the Live Action Short Film Oscar® category. Just ask current Director’s Guild of America president, Taylor Hackford, who in 1979 won the Academy Award for his live action short, Teenager Daughter. Hackford went on to make a splash in Hollywood with films like Ray and Officer and a Gentleman, both of which were heavy awards players in their respective years on top of finding strength at the box office. Furthermore, this category is known for broadening its scope by introducing our home turf to some innovative and talented filmmakers from outside our borders. International cinema has gradually found its footing in the states, but it’s thanks to the embracing arms of such prestigious film bodies like AMPAS that allow these foreign cinematic visions to break through. This year, there is only one full production from the United States while the rest of the shorts are co-produced by other countries. These five nominees are exceptional, perhaps more so than any prior year in recent memory, and truly any one of them are deserving of the grand prize. However, the hard truth is that only one can win come the evening of February 24th, 2013. I’m here to tell you what short film that will be… Read more on Oscar Circuit: Live Action Short…
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 Supporting Actress has proven to be one of the best categories recently for the Academy Awards. For every year there was a clear front runner (Spencer, Monique, Hudson), there was another year when we had no idea who was winning (Leo, Swinton, Weisz, Cruz). Although after a few award shows, it’s clear that this year’s race is shaping up to be one of those “Frontrunner wins everything” years, there’s still an interesting slate of nominees and narratives to discuss.
And the nominees are…
Amy Adams, The Master
Sally Field, Lincoln
Anne Hathaway, Les Miserables
Helen Hunt, The Sessions
Jacki Weaver, Silver Linings Playbook Read more on Oscar Circuit: Supporting Actress…
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 As Ben Affleck’s Argo builds momentum, some of which many of us didn’t expect, it’s looking more and more likely that the film could be crowned the winner on Oscar night. While many of us are talking about the film being the film since Driving Miss Daisy (1989) to win the top award without a Directing nomination attached. I’m taking it a step further. Argo could be the first film since Grand Hotel (1932) to win Best Picture along with no other Oscar. What makes Grand Hotel a true anomaly is Edmund Golding’s film was only nominated for Best Picture with no acting, directing, screenplay, or editing. A clean sweep so to speak. Argo could be heading for an Oscar win for Best Motion Picture and that’s all.
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 New name. Same Category. The Academy Award for Best Production Design celebrates the best in art direction and set design. Production designers have an incredibly difficult role in the making of film. Whether it’s a fantasy film set in far off world or a recreation of a historical building, production designers create the physical building blocks that allow us into the world of the film. Last year this award (called the Academy Award for Art Direction), went to Dante Ferretti and Francesca Lo Schiavo for Hugo.
And the 2012 Nominees are…
Sarah Greenwood – Anna Karenina
Dan Hennah – The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Eve Stewart – Les Miserables
David Gropman – Life of Pi
Rick Carter, Jim Erickson, and Peter T. Frank – Lincoln Read more on Oscar Circuit: Best Production Design…
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The 2011 Oscar winners for Best Documentary Feature Film, “Undefeated” – (L-R) Rich Middlemas, T.J. Martin, and Daniel Lindsay.
In a strong and impressive year for movies, 2012 has not only given us the most compelling Oscar race in years, but in terms of documentary filmmaking, one of the most richly rewarding years the genre has ever seen. As many proclaim this to be a new Golden Age for documentaries, with more and more of them finding theaters each year, the incredible rise to prominence of the documentary feature film has given much more renewed scrutiny to Oscar’s nomination process.
New rules implemented for 2012, which forced a film to not only play New York or Los Angeles for at least one 7-day stretch but to also have a review written in the New York Times and Los Angeles Times, was intended to make the process easier. However, savvy film and PR agents found a soft spot in the rules and the 2012 documentary season fell into loophole madness. The loophole is a rather obvious one – the PR reps, festival programmers, and theater managers of participating theaters simply booked documentaries for a minimum of one week’s time, invited reviewers from the New York and Los Angeles Times to write and publish reviews. Essentially, they qualified the film.
Famously, Documentary Branch chairman and Oscar-winning filmmaker Michael Moore took to Twitter on more than one occasion during the voting cycle, bashing the process he helped implement and bemoaning the fact that nearly one hundred screeners arrived on approximately the same day, with just a few weeks left in the voting. When he tweeted the final 15 films which made Oscar’s shortlist, he praised the process and heralded the selections. Controversy, politics, and egos aside, these five Best Documentary nominees are unquestionably worthy and important films; the kind which haunt you long after the credits start rolling and/or the television is turned off.
The 2012 Nominees are:
- 5 Broken Cameras – Emad Burnat, Guy Davidi
- The Gatekeepers – Dror Moreh, Philippa Kowarsky, Estelle Fialon
- How To Survive A Plague – David France, Howard Gertler
- The Invisible War – Kirby Dick, Amy Ziering
- Searching For Sugar Man – Malik Bendjelloul, Simon Chinn
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 And the Nominees are…
The Avengers – Janek Sirrs, Daniel Sudick, Jeff White, and Guy Williams
Oscar Scene: Hulk smashing
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – David Clayton, Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, and R. Christopher White
Oscar Scene: The introduction to Gollum
Life of Pi – Erik De Boer, Donald Elliott, Guillaume Rocheron, and Bill Westenhofer
Oscar Scene: Any involving Richard Parker
Prometheus – Charley Henley, Martin Hill, Richard Stammers, and Trevor Wood
Oscar Scene: The Opening Scene
Snow White and the Huntsman – Phil Brennan, Neil Corbould, Michael Dawson, and Cedric Nicolas-Troyan
Oscar Scene: The Mirror Man
A category often filled with summer blockbusters, it’s not every day that the Best Visual Effects field has a Best Picture nominee contained within it. That alone makes it one of the more interesting categories, but it’s hardly the only reason for that. Many of the other tech categories are harder for layman to comprehend and as such feel a bit exclusionary (Film Editing or Sound Mixing, for example), whereas this category is a lot simpler to wrap your brain around. This year, happen to have a bit of mix between high octane and low key contenders, which I find unique. Of the 5 nominees, it seems like more or less a 2 horse race. Which are they, you ask? Well, lets dive right in and find out!
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