Just as they're unrolling the red carpet to celebrate the best at the Oscars, the Golden Raspberry Foundation announced the winners (losers?) of this year's Razzie Awards, and as many predicted, M. Night Shymalan's magnum turkey The Last Airbender took home the lion's share of awards, including, Worst Writer, Worst Director, Worst Use of 3D and Worst Picture. The airbrushed four-headed hydra of Sex And The City 2 took home a shared Worst Actress along with Worst Sequel. Check out the full list of dis-accolades after the break.[ComingSoon]
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Reason #1 why we love Lea Thompson, who just landed a new ABC Family pilot, Switched at Birth: She's the girl we all wanted to be in the '80s. Reason #2: She's like the estimable honey badger when it comes to real talk about her old Red Dawn co-star turned Qaddafi of Hollywood, Charlie Sheen.
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Movieline hit the red carpet at Saturday's Spirit Awards, where Exit Through the Gift Shop took home Best Documentary, with one guiding mission: Find out who Banksy really is! But just in case we couldn't get to the bottom of that enigma, we had a backup mission: Find out what he'd look like if he came to an awards show incognito! Hit the jump to watch the results of Movieline's investigation into The Banksy Identity, as aided by a few celebrity informants.
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Backstage at the Spirit Awards Saturday afternoon, Darren Aronofsky was in a jaunty mood. And why not? With Black Swan's two biggest Oscar rivals, The Social Network and The King's Speech, absent from competition at the penultimate awards show of the year (TSN excluded by budget, TKS relegated to the foreign film category), the night belonged to Aronofsky's stylish psychological ballet thriller. So after Black Swan took home Best Cinematography (Matthew Libatique), Best Actress (Natalie Portman), Best Director, and Best Feature, Aronofsky took to the winners' room to have some fun with the press.
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A chilly pack of hipster filmmakers crowded into a tent in Santa Monica today and decided who amongst them rated as the most awesome as the 2011 Independent Spirit Awards doled out its tin eagles. Check out the full list of winners here.
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It's the day before the Oscars, which means that the creme de la creme of indie filmmaking are gathered on a beach to toast each other's success at the 2011 Independent Spirit Awards. Our very own intrepid Jen Yamato has set up shop on the red carpet and in the winners' room, so follow her @movieline as she twitters the night away. We'll also be posting winners here, so stay tuned to see who wins the ultimate hipster filmmaker tchotchke.
If you've followed Movieline at all today, you'll know we are paying somewhat... close attention to the upcoming Academy Awards. But between the celebrity predictions and microscopic reads of the Oscar tea leaves, some of the staff around Movieline HQ have a few ideas of their own as to who might walk away with a golden guy on Sunday night. And now those ideas are collected in one convenient place for your perusal and/or wagering counsel. Enjoy!
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Were I a betting man, I'd probably stick to the the conclusions of the exhaustively-researched Movieline Oscar Index. More to point: I know in my mind that The King's Speech will probably win most of the awards, but I just don't feel it in my heart! And here in Paris, where Speech has only been out for a few weeks and everyone's obsessed with David Fincher, the cultural climate is still screaming The Social Network! So here it goes: I'm still predicting a "Facebook movie" sweep.
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When I was a little kid, I really, really, really loved the Oscars. For a wee gay movie-obsessed lad growing up in the suburbs of Atlanta, it was the sort of annual event to be anticipated with both excitement and reverence. Every year when we'd get the TV Guide issue with the full-page "Close-Up" box on the Oscars, featuring thumbnail pictures of the ten Best Actor and Actress nominees, my heart would race. Before I was old enough that my parents would let me stay up late and watch the whole thing (this was back when the show began at 9 p.m. on the East Coast), I somehow convinced them to nudge me awake at midnight, tell me who won in the major categories, and then I'd roll over and go back to sleep.
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As if you couldn't tell, it's Oscar Day here at Movieline! Hollywood's biggest night is finally -- mercifully -- upon us, and that means it's time for some last minute predictions. You've already read what our eclectic group of celebrities thinks will happen in the Kodak Theater on Sunday night, now take a look at my picks. They're like those celebrity picks, only less cool. To the fun!
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A couple quick things about some of the riskier but highly confident Oscar predictions you'll find below:
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I guess you've heard by now the Oscars and Independent Spirit Awards are happening this weekend? Yay! is right. But I don't think you've yet been alerted as to the trenchant movie news outlet where you can follow each as they happen. Hint: You're reading it.
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For me, the Oscar nominations are now something incestuously interwoven with Park City, Utah... and not just because I was scrambling from one theater to another at this year's Sundance Film Festival while drafting this. Everyone knows Sundance spawned several of this year's nominees, as it has many times over the years. But it should be remembered that Sundance is -- literally -- not the only game in Hollywood's favorite Rocky Mountain ski town.
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You'll be relieved to find that comedian Guy Branum (of Chelsea Lately, No Strings Attached, and stand-up in your local amphitheater) is as much of an Oscar buff as we are: He has favorite Oscar years, speeches, and flukes. When Movieline asked him to guess the winners for this Sunday's ceremony, he responded with enthusiastic detail and a commitment to the underdog -- a little like Kathy Griffin. Also, he has precious things to say about Helena Bonham Carter.
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Five months flies when you're having fun, and that's precisely what I was doing following the long awards-season trail all the way to this weekend's Oscars ceremony. And I have 20+ weeks of Movieline's Oscar Index to prove it -- now comprehensively compiled in one central location and animated (crudely, but still) for your reflective pleasure.
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