Best Picture Race Expands to 10

The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences announced today that the Best Picture race is getting bigger.  Instead of the traditional five films nominated for the Best Picture Oscar, AMPAS will now allow ten.  The new rule is effective starting this year, meaning films like Up, Star Trek and others may end up being nominated for The Oscars top prize, even though their genres are usually ignored.   This could be a shock of the life to The Academy Awards, bringing in new, younger viewers who are rooting on their favorite films.

I don’t know how I feel about this.  I agree that The Oscars regularly ignore truly great films (The Dark Knight anybody?) but ten films means we will probably get a few that are probably just filler.  But who knows, maybe I’m wrong.  I’ll tell you right now that if Up doesn’t get nominated for Best Picture under these new rules then something is truly wrong in the world.

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This post was written by Brandon on June 24, 2009 Write a Comment

Best Motion Picture Is…..

Steve Spielberg has total alien ship hair these days…it’s shaped like a   saucer.   He’s announcing the best picture and it is…..

SLUMDOG MILLIONARE

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

They didn’t just sweep…they vaccummed this shiz…

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This post was written by Carrie on February 22, 2009 Write a Comment

The LA Film Critics Choose 1st Animated Best Flick

The Los Angeles Film Critics Choose “Wall-E” OVER “Dark Knight” for Best Picture. Picking an Animated film for the first time ever. Here are the rest of the winners:

Director: Danny Boyle, “Slumdog Millionaire” – Runner-up: Christopher Nolan, “The Dark Knight” Actor: Sean Penn, “Milk” – Runner-up: Mickey Rourke, “The Wrestler” – Actress: Sally Hawkins, “Happy-Go-Lucky” – Runner-up: Melissa Leo, “Frozen River” – Supporting actor: Heath Ledger, “The Dark Knight” – Runner-up: Eddie Marsan, “Happy-Go-Lucky” – Supporting actress: Penelope Cruz, “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” and “Elegy” – Runner-up: Viola Davis, “Doubt” – Screenplay: Mike Leigh, “Happy-Go-Lucky” – Runner-up: Charlie Kaufman, “Synecdoche, New York” – Foreign-language film: “Still Life” – Runner-up: “The Class” – Documentary: “Man on Wire” – Runner-up: “Waltz With Bashir” – Animation: “Waltz With Bashir” – Cinematography: Yu Lik Wai, “Still Life” Runner-up: Anthony Dod Mantle, “Slumdog Millionaire” – Production design: Mark Friedberg, “Synecdoche, New York” – Runner-up: Nathan Crowley, “The Dark Knight” – Music/score: A.R. Rahman, “Slumdog Millionaire” – Runner-up: Alexandre Desplat, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” – New Generation: Steve McQueen, “Hunger” – Douglas E. Edwards independent/experimental film/video: James Benning, “RR” and “Casting a Glance”

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This post was written by ThecounT on December 9, 2008 Write a Comment