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Understanding Screenwriting #103: Argo, The Sessions, Cloud Atlas, & More
Coming Up In This Column: Argo, The Sessions, Cloud Atlas, Seven Psychopaths, The Conspirators, The Racket (1951), but first... Fan Mail: David Ehrenstein thought I was getting too much into the...
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Links for the Day: SAG Nominations, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees,...
Dominating today's SAG nominations are Lincoln, Argo, and Silver Linings Playbook. And none of those films lead the 44th annual NAACP Image awards. Donna Summer, Public Enemy, and others to be...
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Oscar 2013 Nomination Predictions: Adapted Screenplay
If not bound to have the most impressive lineup, this category may just yield the season's most deserving win, as Tony Kushner's script for Lincoln remains miles ahead of the competition, standing,...
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Oscar 2013 Nomination Predictions: Supporting Actor
With all due respect to the gentlemen in contention, this year's likely Supporting Actor crop has shaped up to be a snooze, filled with veterans who, however gifted, feel like obvious choices, and...
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Links for the Day: OFCS Winners, Visual Effects Society Noms, Guillermo Del...
Ben Affleck's Argo is tops with the Online Film Critics Society. The Visual Effects Society announce their nominations. Guillermo Del Toro says no to Star Wars: Episode VII. David R. Ellis is dead at...
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Oscar 2013 Nomination Predictions: Director
When introducing Life of Pi at its New York Film Festival premiere, Ang Lee quipped that there are three things directors are warned to never work with: Children, animals, and water. With his latest,...
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Oscar 2013 Nomination Predictions: Picture
As is customary at this stage of the game, Oscar's top quintet of Best Picture hopefuls are sure to land nominations, so much so that every pundit can pat himself on the back, saying proudly that if...
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Links for the Day: Berlinale Expands Lineup, Critics' Choice Movie Awards...
Berlinale's Competition program adds 9 films, among them Bruno Dumont's Camille Claudel 1915, Steven Soderbergh's Side Effects, and a new film by Jafar Panahi. The Critics' Choice Movie Awards were...
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Links for the Day: Golden Globe Awards Winners, Aaron Swartz R.I.P., New J.T....
Argo, Les Misérables, Girls, Homeland, and Game Change were among the big winners at last night's Golden Globes. Internet activist Aaron Swartz was found dead on Friday in his New York apartment. And...
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Links for the Day: Sundance Film Festival, SAG, and PGA Winners, César...
Click here for a full list of this year's Sundance Film Festival award winners. Actors honored their own at last night's Screen Actors Guild Awards. And Argo is almong this year's Producers Guild...
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Ranking Oscar's 2013 Nominees
The 85th annual Academy Awards will take place on Sunday, February 24 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Starting tomorrow, check back daily as we predict the winner in every Oscar category. This...
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Oscar 2013 Winner Predictions: Adapted Screenplay
Of all the major players in this year's Oscar game, Lincoln has arguably had the most mercurial ride, beginning as a sight-unseen frontrunner, performing few remarkable feats in the precursors,...
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Links for the Day: Ben Affleck Wins DGA, Best and Worst Super Bowl Ads, Annie...
Argo director Ben Affleck wins DGA award. The best and worst Super Bowl ads. Wreck-It Ralph is best in show at the Annie Awards. Anna Karenina, Life of Pi, and Skyfall win top prizes at the Art...
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Oscar 2013 Winner Predictions: Supporting Actor
All right, all right, all right. We should've known. As it turned out, Matthew McConaughey's still supple ass cheeks in Magic Mike were no match for AMPAS's preference for saggy old balls in this...
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Links for the Day: Grammy, BAFTA, ASC, and USC Scripter Winners, Pope...
Grammy spread the love around last night. Ben Affleck led the BAFTA award winners yesterday in London. Skyfall and Game of Thrones win big at the ASC Awards. And Argo surprises by winning the USC...
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Oscar 2013 Winner Predictions: Score
Typically, there's at least one Oscar-nominated score that stands out as unique, with memorable flourishes that push it ahead as the frontrunner (think Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross's tech-heavy...
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Oscar 2013 Winner Predictions: Director
After Argo collected nearly every major industry award in the lead-up to the Academy Awards, in the process emerging as this year's Best Picture frontrunner, it came as a shock to everyone to see Ben...
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Links for the Day: Berlinale, ACE, WGA, CAS, and MPSE Winners, John McCain...
Child's Pose wins Berlinale's Golden Bear. Hoo boy, has John McCain lost it. Argo and Silver Linings Playbook are tops with the American Cinema Editors. Les Miserables among winners at the Cinema...
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Oscar 2013 Winner Predictions: Sound Mixing
It's at this point we had to ask ourselves, "Is Argo really going to end up a two-Oscar Best Picture winner?" Because while it seems almost certain to buck all sorts of precedent and take Best...
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Oscar 2013 Winner Predictions: Sound Editing
Subtlety isn't a quality that dignifies the nominees in this category; typically, the film endowed with the most clanging, banging, and crashing suitable to shake your theater seat prevails. That...
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Oscar 2013 Winner Predictions: Editing
As you might have noticed from our previous Oscar posts, one of the hottest topics among we Slant prognosticators is just how many trophies Argo is capable of collecting. Certain races (like Adapted...
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Oscar 2013 Winner Predictions: Picture
Despite the hysteria, it may not be appropriate yet to call a time of death on the decades and decades' worth of precedent that will be shattered when Argo wins Best Picture despite very conspicuously...
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Links for the Day: Nate Silver's Election-Style Oscar Predictions, The Worst...
Nate Silver predicts the Oscars, FiveThirtyEight-style. The worst reviews of this year's Best Picture nominees features us! The Wired origins of Argo. Oscar un-enthusiast Michael Atkinson sends his...
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Oscar 2013 Composite Winner Predictions
Picture: Argo Director: Ang Lee, Life of Pi Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln Actress: Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook Supporting Actor: Tommy Lee Jones, Lincoln Supporting Actress: Anne...
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Links for the Day: Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon Coming to NYC, Ric Menello...
The Tonight show, with new host, is set to reclaim its New York roots. Richard Brody talks to James Gray about Ric Menello, a great guy I had the pleasure of chatting with once and whose death last...
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