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]
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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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
"OK, Anne and James, in this one, just lean on that ten foot tall statue and look as casual as possible. No, more casual. That's it! James, you're a casual tiger right now!" Oh, sorry, I was just pretending to be the photographer of this brand new promotional still featuring Oscar hosts Anne Hathaway and James Franco. This picture tells you absolutely nothing about what kind of job the pair will do on Feb. 27, but it does reinforce what you already knew: Francaway make quite an adorable couple, in a rom-com poster-ready sort of way. Click ahead to see.
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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 inaugural Awards-Season Trading Cards. Today, let's give it up for Best Actress Oscar nominee Michelle Williams!
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If you're anything like me, you read most of the publicist-approved Academy Award nominee reactions...and you nod off somewhere between "thrilled to be in the company of such wonderful actors" and "this film was a labor of love." That's all good and classy but who cares? We live in a Jersey Shore-driven society where people would sooner light a Wall Street Journal on fire for warmth (and attention) at a Midwestern Justin Bieber concert than read it. Just give us a little creativity and edge that was not approved by your management. With that simple request in mind, Movieline has ranked the Oscar nomination reactions this morning -- based on originality, genuineness and political incorrectness -- and listed them below for your convenience.
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Just as The Fighter was a near-lock to earn Oscar nominations today, it's a near-lock to win at least one or two statuettes during the Feb. 27 ceremony. If you had predicted this eventuality six years ago when Todd Lieberman and his producing partner David Hoberman first undertook the project -- a troubled drama amid a development slate that included Beauty Shop and The Shaggy Dog -- the producers might have driven you to the hospital themselves. But those crowd-pleasing roots grew into the film The Fighter is today -- an awards-season juggernaut for Best Picture rookies Lieberman, Hoberman and star/co-producer Mark Wahlberg.
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