If you're one of the many swell Movieline readers based in or around New York City, you've surely already marked down Feb. 27 as the night you're joining us and the gang at 92YTribeca for our annual Oscar Viewing Party. But just in case you haven't, I bring you news that will no doubt sweeten the deal. (Hint: Drinks!)
It's time once again to return to Movieline's recently undertaken mission to honor this year's acting and directing nominees with a tribute that will surely outlive any trophy they could ever hope to receive: one of our inaugural Awards-Season Trading Cards. Today, let's give it up for Best Director nominee David O. Russell!
Emmy-winning comedian Kathy Griffin loves the Oscars but hates Hollywood's self-congratulatory streak. We understand her. The D-List doyenne shared with Movieline her picks for Best Picture, Worst Picture, and choices for better hosts than James Franco and Anne Hathaway.
Oh, wow. Five months of awards coverage flies by so fast, but believe it: The ballots are in, the tuxes are tailored and the jewels are being rented as we speak. And the 2011 Academy Awards are right around the corner. This means, of course, one final trip to Movieline's Institute for the Advanced Study of Kudos Forensics for the final Oscar Index of the 2010-11 season. Get the Kleenex, and let's see what there is to see...
Happy Oscar week, you third-class stowaways. Quoth the thespian Bill Paxton, "Are you ready to go back to Titanic?" The point is you're not. It's 2011 and we're still 192 years away from comprehending Titanic's world-paralyzing success, its Best Picture win, and Jack Dawson's hack drawing skills. He's just never going to get into Oberlin at that rate. You won't find explanation for James Cameron's sorcery here, but near, far, wherever you are -- you will remember and recoil at the royal badness of Titanic.
Around Movieline HQ, Kyle Killen is somewhat of a folk hero. The screenwriter was responsible for two of our most-discussed projects in 2010: The short-lived-but-brilliant Lone Star, and the Mel Gibson comeback vehicle The Beaver (which will finally hit theaters this summer; fingers crossed). Naturally, it was a no-brainer to ask Killen -- who recently had his pilot script for the Inception-like thriller REM picked up by NBC -- for his Oscar predictions in the lead-up to Sunday night. Will Best Picture go to those upstarts from Silicon Valley or the stuffy, upper crust royalty from 1930s England?
On Tuesday, some fairly "incriminating" photos were released to the Internet showing that perhaps The King's Speech was shot in the same location as a gay porn movie. It has been fairly well documented by the British press that the scenes in Lionel Logue's (Oscar nominee Geoffrey Rush) office were shot at 33 Portland Place in London, but was that address used by adult film director Jonno when he shot Snookered? Movieline contacted Jonno to inquire about where and when the production was filmed.
It's time once again to return to Movieline's recently undertaken mission to honor this year's acting and directing nominees with a tribute that will surely outlive any trophy they could ever hope to receive: one of our inaugural Awards-Season Trading Cards. Today, let's give it up for Best Actress nominee Jennifer Lawrence!
If any element of the annual Academy Awards telecast represents an equalizer between your party's Oscar geeks and the more casual fans who just dropped in for the booze, it's got to be the chance to win big money on one of the night's most hotly debated segments: the In Memoriam montage.
Well, sorta. In an impromptu interview with The Daily Beast -- the reporter went up to Leo at a restaurant after failing to get a response from her representatives; six hours later he was on the phone with the Oscar nominee -- Leo says that the ads were actually conceived before her nomination for The Fighter, and were possibly the handiwork of Paramount. This despite the fact that Leo previously said Paramount was not involved. Huh.
On 30 Rock, Tracy Jordan won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony with such swiftness that we almost forgot how impressive such a feat is. The entertainment award "Grand Slam" has only been given to a select group that includes Mel Brooks, Helen Hayes, Whoopi Goldberg, Barbra Streisand and Liza Minnelli. To put it another way, the entertainment industry is long overdue for another performer to enter the EGOT annals, and this Sunday's Oscars has us pondering the qualified applicants. Here are Movieline's top five prospects who've each earned three of the four necessary trophies.
It's time once again to return to Movieline's recently undertaken mission to honor this year's acting and directing nominees with a tribute that will surely outlive any trophy they could ever hope to receive: one of our inaugural Awards-Season Trading Cards. Today, let's give it up for Best Actor nominee (and Oscar co-host) James Franco!
While the question of whether or not Banksy will be allowed to show up at the Kodak Theater on Sunday night to possibly collect the Best Documentary Feature award for Exit Through the Gift Shop remains up for debate, it appears one lingering doubt about the street art sensation has finally been answered. By one of Banksy's co-conspirators. Or maybe Banksy himself.
Earlier this month, Oscar joke writer Bruce Vilanch revealed that a planned bit involving Cher, host James Franco dressed as Cher, and the Burlesque song "You Haven't Seen the Last of Me," was scratched from the telecast because the Golden Globe-winning track wasn't nominated. Turns out Vilanch might not have been exaggerating. Franco posted a recording of himself warbling through "You Haven't Seen the Last of Me" on his must-read Twitter page late Monday evening, writing: "They pulled this from the Oscar show. Damn it." Click ahead to listen, but heed this advice: Earmuffs. He's not very good.
It's time once again to return to Movieline's recently undertaken mission to honor this year's acting and directing nominees with a tribute that will surely outlive any trophy they could ever hope to receive: one of our inaugural Awards-Season Trading Cards. Let's give it up for enthusiastic and/or controversial Best Supporting Actress nominee Melissa Leo!
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