Oscar Index: Punditry Post-Mortem! Dancing With The Stars Of Academy Award Punditry
To quote Patton Oswalt from his great KFC Famous Bowls routine, "America has spoken," and for Oscar pundits bemoaning Lincoln's…
Oscar Index: Anne Hathaway Is A Sure Bet For Sunday, But Jennifer Lawrence Shouldn't Get Cocky
The Oscar season enters its last weekend, but one suspects it is far from over. Even if Academy members ultimately hewed to…
OSCAR INDEX: Will Groundswell Of Academy 'Amour' For Emmanuelle Riva Lead To Best Actress Upset?
With less than two weeks before the Academy Awards, the Oscar conversation is veering from "What now?" to "What if?" Amid all the…
Oscar Index: Killing 'Lincoln' Is All The Rage As Academy Voting Begins
The mailing of the final Oscar ballots this week signals the final stage of what has been the most volatile and tumultuous Oscar…
OSCAR INDEX: J-'Argo'-naut! In Spite Of Academy Snub, Oscar Momentum Continues To Build For Ben…
It's one month before the Academy Awards: Do you know where your Oscar buzz is? This week has been rife with distractions from…
Oscar Index: Argo-Sell Yourself — It's Crunch Time, Nominees
"It just doesn't matter," Bill Murray pep-talked to his misfit campers in Meatballs. You've got to think that Teams Lincoln and…
Oscar Index: Day-Lewis, Chastain, Jones & Hathaway Lead In Final Stretch
The big winner when the Oscar nominations were announced Thursday might have been not the nominees themselves, but venerable…
Oscar Index: Jennifer Lawrence Is The Best Actress To Beat
This is getting exciting — not so much the Oscar race; but the recent spate of news about the Academy Awards telecast on Feb. 24…
Oscar Index: PGA Propellant And The N-Word (Nominations!) For 'Django Unchained'
After a momentary holiday lull, it's back on! Or as Calvin Candie says in Django Unchained. "We got us a fight going on that's a…
Oscar Index: Critics Have 'Amour' For 'Zero Dark Thirty' & 'The Master,' But Who's 'Les Miserables'…
Academy ballots were mailed out last week to 5,586 voting members, the most significant news on the Oscar front. Not that it was…
Oscar Index: 'Zero Dark Thirty' Caught In The Cross-Hairs
The Oscar Index's head is spinning. What critics organization didn't announce their nominees or award-winners this week? On…
Oscar Index: 'Zero Dark' Domination & McConaughey's 'Magic' Moves
Welcome back to the Gold Linings Playbook, otherwise known as the Oscar Index, in which we take the pulse of the pundits…
'Midnight Meat Train'-Spotting: The Best Movie In-Jokes
Bradley Cooper's past comes back to haunt him in The Silver Linings Playbook. Check out what's playing at the movie theatre that…