It looks like The King's Speech still might deserve that Best Picture Oscar, at least if Tom Hooper has any say in the matter. The Directors Guild Award winner told EW on Saturday that he wouldn't be comfortable with Harvey Weinstein recutting his Oscar favorite to get a lower, more box office-friendly rating. "I wouldn't support cutting the film in any way. I think we looked at whether it's possible to bleep out the f*cks and stuff, but I'm not going to actually cut that part," said Hooper. "I'm not going to cut the film." Now, that doesn't mean Harvey won't cut the film, but there you go. Controversy momentarily averted. [EW]
So you might have heard the SAG Awards went off last night. Maybe you even watched the telecast, or maybe you were actually there. Perhaps you also attended one of the afterparties and hobnobbed with luminaries like Harvey Weinstein and Darren Aronofsky. There's an outside chance you even had your photo taken with them! Living the dream! Right, Busy Philipps?
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Unless Sandra Bullock is toasting Betty White, the Screen Actors Guild Awards rarely provide much to write home about. Yeah, the SAGs often foretell the Oscars, but Sunday's ceremony was a limp sequence of tributes, forgettable speeches, and Golden Globe regurgitation. There were really only 15 relevant moments from the two-hour telecast, and some of them might be fabricated. Click ahead for the mostly true review.
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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 daily inaugural Awards-Season Trading Cards. Today, let's give it up for Best Actress nominee Nicole Kidman!
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Guild hat trick achieved! With a victory for Best Ensemble at the Screen Actors Guild awards on Sunday night, The King's Speech firmly entrenched itself as the front-runner for Best Picture at the Academy Awards next month. Other front-runners who won actor trophies? Try Melissa Leo, Christian Bale, Colin Firth and a suddenly very-pregnant (and not laughing) Natalie Portman. Congrats in advance on those Oscar wins, guys! Click ahead for the full list of winners -- including some surprise television selections. (Cough, Betty White.)
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And just like that, we've got a new front-runner. After previously notching an unexpected win at the Producers Guild Award, The King's Speech continued on its guild rampage, with first-time nominee Tom Hooper winning Best Feature Film Director last night, leaving previous favorite David Fincher with nothing. And as you will hear ad nauseum today, only six times in the past has the DGA Award winner not won the Academy Award for Best Director, most recently in 2002 when Rob Marshall won for Chicago, but Roman Polanski went on to win the Oscar for The Pianist. Will The King's Speech make it a guild hat trick and win big tonight at the Screen Actors Guild Awards? Full list of winners after the break. [Deadline]
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Black Swan is already funny. It's got Bad Movie We Love written all over its bloody plumage. And yet, it gets funnier once you break down the special effects scene-by-scene and learn how the glittery swan sausage is made. Ahead, learn the mechanics behind Darren Aranofksy's cygnus opus, including the Muppet Workshop antics that helped illustrate Natalie Portman's more grotesque moments. Just like Tchaikovsky wanted.
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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 daily inaugural Awards-Season Trading Cards. Today, let's give it up for Best Supporting Actor nominee Christian Bale!
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If your primary complaint about The Fighter was that there was not nearly enough nose-picking onscreen, you're in luck. AOL has exploited not one but two parties -- children and Academy Award-nominated motion pictures -- in its new Kids Act Out series, which lets adorable squirts loosely reenact scenes from The Fighter, Black Swan, 127 Hours, The King's Speech and The Social Network. Amusing or insulting, David O. Russell? Watch the videos yourself and decide below.
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Ask the Internet, and ye shall receive. Just yesterday, I was bemoaning the fact that the truly funny James Franco/Anne Hathaway Oscar promo that ABC ran before the nominations on Tuesday wasn't online, and voila! Now it is! If the co-hosts can expand this kind of charm beyond the 16 seconds of this commercial, we're all going to be in good hands on Feb. 27. Click ahead to watch Franco save Hathaway from a wardrobe malfunction.
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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 daily, inaugural Awards-Season Trading Cards. Today, let's give it up for Best Director Oscar nominee David Fincher!
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So you've probably heard about yesterday's Academy Award nominations. Pretty interesting, if you're into that kind of thing. And really, who isn't? More importantly, who isn't into Movieline's Oscar Index, which went a respectable 30 for 35 in its inaugural attempt to narrow down this year's nods to a science? Let's break it all down -- and see what it means for the Oscar home stretch:
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Oscar season means one thing here at Movieline: I get to revisit my favorite moments in Academy history and cackle at the craycray performances that earn trophies. Case in point, here are our ten favorite, uninhibited, screechy, and freaky-deeky Best Supporting Actress performances. You know it's the best category, right? The only one where madness is consistently exulted? Good. My only regret: Lesley Ann Warren didn't win for her performance in Victor/Victoria, and for that our list suffers. Sigh. At least Renee Zellweger didn't make the cut. Rejoice!
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When The Social Network's Jeff Cronenweth was nominated on Tuesday morning for Best Cinematography, he joined a very rare network: Father-son Oscar nominees. His late father, Jordan Cronenweth, had worked on films such as Blade Runner and was among the chosen cinematographers at the 1987 ceremony for his work on Peggy Sue Got Married. Movieline spoke to Cronenweth while he had a rare free moment on the set of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo about his reaction to being nominated (hint: he would like to win, too), his competition, and what it means to be in the same company as his late father.
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Yesterday, Movieline compiled all of the reactions from this year's Academy Award nominees, but we failed to include the even better reactions from this year's non-nominees. Like Cher, who vented her disappointment over Burlesque's Best Song snub yesterday on Twitter. "We didn't get a nomination 4 best song " [...] "The Golden Globe 4 BEST SONG & not even get nominated by the OSCARS? Oh well it is..what it is
