Just When You Thought Chris Rock Had Suffered Enough...

Jack Mathews On Why Marty Loses... With Hopefuly The Last Use Of A "Heart" In Place Of "Love," Now That Year Huckabee Is Officially Over

A Big Slice Of Cake For Imelda Staunton

Via GreenCine
Wasp, The Oscar Winning Short, Is Available Online

The Fashion Commentaries Begin ...
And The Pictures, Too

The Oscar Who Said What

A Trip Through The Looking Glass On Oscar Night

Liam Lacey Pre-Writes His Post-Oscar Column

How 'Bout A Little Glory For Second Place

"Is it too late to create an Oscar for the Most Politically Controversial Film?"

Offering Up An Oscar Survival Guide

South Africa's Come To The Oscars For The First Time Yesterday

India's Hopes Ride With A Little Terrorist
See It At Salon

Primping For Oscar Takes Time, Money And Sometimes A DNA Test

Reading Up - In Case There Isn't Quite Enough Coverage For You On The Internet, Television, Radio And Screen

."Chris should let the audience vote on which awards they actually want to see. Like, he could say: 'Does anybody care about best foreign film? Anybody? No? OK, moving right along"
And Other Advice For Chris Rock

Attempting To Quantify Oscar Spending
Facts You Should Know When Reading The LAT Story...

Brad Grey's Impressive Guest List Includes Claudia "The Media Elite" Eller

Oooooo-Okonedo, Where The Star Is Rising On The Plain... She''s As Tall As Wheat And Sure Smells Sweet... Yeah She's Thin, But Never Ever Frail... Ooooooo..

Why Is The Paper Of Record Wasting Space On An Unmitigated Flop? (P.S. The DVD Is Available from Australia... No Chinese Subtitles At All)
And - In Other Miramax News

Whose Oscars Is It Anyway?
The Man Kicks Oscar's Golden Ass... But Who Is "Us" And Do "Our" Tastes Match Manohla's?

A Quick Look At The Non-Nominee Stars Of Oscar Night

Where Nominee Colleen Atwood Lives

Ellwood Says, "Watch The Oscars... Since Desperate Housewives Isn't On Anyway..."

Winning Gold Isn't Always So Great

Not Everyone Has Wanted Oscar Glory

The Ten Worst Best Pictures

The Fashion Quiz
Quiz: Oscar Trivia
Quiz: How Much Do You Know?

Beware The Curse Of Oscar

Salon's Got Five Of The Oscar Shorts

Waxman On The Oscar Blahs

Will Clint Bring His Playstation To The Oscars?

It's 7:35 In The Morning, The Brilliant Live Action Short From Spain

Is Cate Shifting To Second Place Favorite?

The Unwritten Oscar Rules

Mike Leigh And Imelda Staunton Get Ready For The Oscars
"The odds for the Oscars are not in our favour"

Scorsese v. Eastwood And The Scorecard - From The Most Films Directed (Eastwood) To Their Signature Trait

Sometimes, Non-Industry Types See The Obvious While We Get Myopic
An Editorial About A Clear Flaw In Million Dollar Baby's Third Act Premise - Spoilers Inherent - From An ICU Doctor In Atlanta

One Of The Best Foreign Language Nominees Features One Nation's Newly Crowned "Best Paid Actor"

Vanity Fair Oscar Package - Graydon On His Party - David Friend On The Evolution Of Oscar From Dinner Global Obsession - Dominick Dunne On Great Oscar Parties Of The Past

Oscar's Social Studies (yes, still spoliers for M$B & others)

Daily News Has Mathews Stunting & Bernard Greating Cate

The Nomination Really Is The Thing For Sideways

The Oscars Through The Eyes Of A First Time Voter

Gift Bag Story #7349

Revenge Of The Screening Whores

Gift Bag Story #7346

Kaufman Wins One From The Writer's Guild

Mathews On Adapted Screenplays - Back To The Original Books, Stories And Plays

Ten Years Backstage At The Oscars .. It's A Book Load Of Stories

Guess Which Nominee...
"They really better not have me on the stage, or I'm gonna grab that Oscar. I don't care what name they read out. If it's close, it's mine."

Be Eloquent (Yet Concise) And Other Rules For Oscar Speeches - Listen Up, Hilary!

"It's a new era of documentaries. These are not the same old subjects"

Lemire And Germain's Oscar Predicts

Rob Lowe Singing With Snow White And Other Memorable Oscar Moments

"(A time delay is) a safety net. You know, you're a trapeze artist ... you welcome the net"

OscarWatch Has Premiere's Oscar Picks ...
Best Picture: The Aviator
Best Director: Clint Eastwood
Best Actor: Jamie Foxx
Best Actress: Hilary Swank
Best Supporting Actor: Thomas Haden Church
Best Supporting Actress: Virginia Madsen
Best Animated Feature: 'The Incredibles
Best Original Screenplay: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Best Adapted Screenplay: Sideways

The Fashion Preview

Super Size Me Wins WGA's New Doc Award... In An Off-Night Party That Makes One Wonder What The Point Is

Miss Crabtree Goes To The Gaffies & Records The Gasps As ASC Rewards As Beautifully Shot A Movie As You'll Find

Terry George On The Responsiblity Of Bringing History To The Screen

Putting Africa On The Cinematic Map In Berlin - Including Nominees Yesterday And Hotel Rwanda

There's An Oscar Promo For Everything ...
Popcorn Recipes For Your Oscar Party

"Statistically speaking, Oscar-winning writers actually die on average 3.6 years sooner their peers who are just nominated"
Directors With Oscars Live Longer Than Those Without, And The More The Better ... But It Could Be Bad For Screenwriters

Page Six Weighing In On The Chris Rock "Controversy"

Paying Tribute To The Big Man
Harvey's Disciples
Earlier - Tribute To Team 'Max

A Overly Dramatic Drudge Headline Leads To A Denial That Chris Rock Isn't Hosting

The Cinematographers Enjoy A Very Long Engagement

The Art Directors Are Teminally Snicketty

Ebert's Oscar Predications

Michael Wilmington Picks The Oscar Winners
And Andrew Cumbee Picks, Too

Madsen Reflects
'There are a lot more scripts where they're attempting to be poetic, but they just seem not well written."

Trying Hard To Find A BAFTA - Oscar Winner Connection

New York Times Oscar Package
Tony Scott Reaches For A Connection Between The Acting Nominees
The Man On Lumet
How Mike Leigh Works
Nominee, Full Of Grace
Oscar Prognostication 101
The Times' Crix Prognostications
Excerpts From The Five Original Screenplay Nominees
What's Next For Some Nominees?
Tom O'Neil Tailors His Sure-Fire List Of Oscar Winning Specs To The Aviator
8 Possible 2006 Nominees
Getting Million Dollar Baby Greenlit

David Edelstein On The Grinch That Stole Oscar

Supporting Actors Can Still Laugh

Denby On Bruno Ganz's Hitler

It's The Saturn Awards Nominations

The London Film Critics Winners

Martin Scorsese Gets His Best Director Win From The London Film Critics

Emanuel Levy Chats With Imelda Staunton

Sideways Wins At The Aspen Comedy Festival

Don Cheadle Returns To Africa For Tonight's Nightliine

Tracking The Pirated Oscar Screeners

After Being Engraved On The Stanely Cup, Ray's Producer Could Pick Up An Oscar He Could Take Home

Elton John Endorses Jamie Foxx

The Aldomovar Bros Quit The Spanish Film Academy
"With our departure we put an end to the historic lack of generosity of this institution with our work"

Everyone Has Lunch, Says Hello, Gets Warned About Thank You Speeches .. The Usual Nominee Lunch

Not Everyone Gets To Come Up To The Stage To Get Their Oscar This Year .. But Some Will Get To Come To The Stage And Not Get An Award ...

ABC And The Gold Man Together For Ten More Years

Million Dollar Baby Has Company In The Oscar Nom Scandal Category

Vera Drake Wins At The British Film Awards

So You Want A Ticket To The Big Show...?

Don Cheadle Stands Up To Congress About Current Echoes Of Hotel Rwanda

Oscars.Com Has Some New Surprises | Here

Jack Mathews On The M$B Spoiler Headline In The NYT... Adds Some Good Reporting On The Beef Against Eastwood

You Thought This Was About The Work? Ha... ho ho... he he he... hahahahhahahaha!
Dear Mr. Voight:
Yes, You're A Nominee, But You're Not Welcome At The Awards.
Love,
SAG

Will The Controversy Help Baby To Oscar?

Hottest Oscar Rental? There's Something About Maria ..

Snubbed By Oscar... It's Not Just For Giamatti's Anymore

The Guardian Talks Rex Pickett Sideways

Quiz: Are You Oscar Material?

TheFive Stages of Oscar Campaigns... (free reg req)
"Of course, there are other factors that contribute to winning an Oscar, such as a well-written script, a talented director and a supporting cast that does not include Steven Seagal."

Mathews On Those Shifting Oscar Winds

As Oscar Opinions Go ...

Offering A Few Hair Tips To The Nominees For The Big Night

Oscar Has Issues This Year

Oscar, In Biblical Proportions

Gil Cates, Oscar Speeches, And A Plea
"Mentioning 10 people's names may make 10 people happy, but it makes millions of other people miserable."

Richard Schickel Looks At Born Into Brothels

Formerly An IRA Terrorist, Now An Actor In An Oscar-Nominated Film

The Sea Inside Seeps The Goyas In Spain

The Incredibles Has A Good Night At The Annie Awards

Sophie Okonedo's Hotel Rwanda
"I couldn't have done another film like Hotel Rwanda this year or I would have ended up in a mental home. There was a lot of strain constantly being in that very dark place."

Second Guessing The Nominations

The Chicago Reader's ALL-SPOILER Story On Million Dollar Baby & Protests Of Same

Nominated Doc Short
Sister Rose's Passion Is Very Different Than Mel's

It May Be That This Is Scorsese's Year

Will Enough People Have Something To Root For To Tune In?

Rock's Ready
"The secret to hosting awards shows is like sports — get a big lead and run out the clock."

Erik Lundegaard On Women, Hollywood And What The Best Actress Nominations Really Say

"It was just a dream that I never dreamt."
A Long Way From Colombia

Blaming A Lack Of Best Picture Noms On Fear The Of Controversy Without Considering They Might Just Not Be Worthy

Nikki Finke Goes Out Of News Mode & Cries "Hypocrisy" As She Hypocritically Takes Her Turn As A So-Inside-Baseball-You'll-Feel-Like-Roger-Clemons'-Kidney Oscar Predictor (spoiler included)

Screenwriter And Producer, Paul Haggis Is Happy About His Million Dollar Baby

Edelstein Dissects The Nominations

Nominations Morning: Dawn Of The Publicists

Virginia Madsen's Walk Down The Red Carpet

Jack Mathews A Predictable Slate Of Nominations

Before Nominations: Three Way Race, After Nominations: Three Way Race - And Other Notes

Newsweek Offers Eight Oscar Comments

Historically Overlooked

“It’s not sentimentalized, it’s not overdramatized. It’s just — done. That’s what I go for. Let’s not kill it with drama.”
The Nominee Reactions To Oscar

Oscar "Experts" Weight In At Christian Science Monitor

The Nomination Deprived | A Few Surprises

Stephen Holden's Oscar Ennui

EW's Surprises - And Surprise Misses

Forbes On Boxoffice vs. Nominations

A Few Trivia Sidebars On This Year's Nominations

USA Today's Forecasting Oscar's Winners Already

What It Takes To Win - A Look From Down Under

A Few Oscar (Mostly) Myths

The Oscar History Of Each Of This Year's Hopefuls

Ebert Handicaps The Nominations

A UK Poll Of Oscar's Most Deserving Bridesmaids Resulted In Hitchcock, Jackson & You'll Never Guess What Actress

Protesting Million Dollar Baby, Agendas Included (Spoiler Warning )

Erik Lundegaard Has A Few Words For Chris Rock
Earlier - Chris Rock's Ready For Oscar
"I think the production team at the Oscars should prepare for flowers and candy because he might insult a few people."

Lumenick Predicts The Nominations

Hitting The Campaign Trail For Something Really Important .. Oscar

Amy Taubin Talks To Clint Eastwood
"There's a tendency in moviemaking to treat the audience as if they won't stay with you unless you explain every little thing along the way."

William Arnold Predicts The Nominations
And - Ruthe Stein Says An Aviator May Rise

"El Rey is probably the only film among the 50 in the running for this year's foreign-language Academy Award that had its reels searched for cocaine"

John Patterson Looks At The Nominations
"In one corner we have rangy, raw-boned Clint Eastwood; in the other that nimble little street-fighter, Martin Scorsese."

Michael Moore And Four Other Documentary Directors Get Nominations From The DGA

Glenn Whipp And The Nominations That Should Be

Bob Strauss' Own Dream Ballot For Oscar

The Chorus Sings France's Oscar Hopes

"I think the production team at the Oscars should prepare for flowers and candy because he might insult a few people."
Chris Rock's Ready For Oscar

David Germain On A Tight Oscar Race - And Lower Oscar Ratings Because Of It?

Gwyneth Patrow Gets Weirded Out By Her Oscar

The Globe Win Betters The Betting On Owen As Bond

Jack Mathews Weighs In On The Globes
"From now on, the HFPA can't claim that their awards are any greater harbingers of Oscars than the awards of any other group."

A Quick Guide To The Next Round Of Awards Season Fun

Clive Owen's Climb To Recognition

Analyzing The Globes In Light Of Oscar
The Hot Button | CNN | Reuters | USA Today | AP

The Golden Globe Winners

Nominations From The Editors Guild And The Art Directors Guild

Playing The Math Game With Oscar Predictions

The Sideways Strategy
"Usually a movie rises or falls in the first weekend. Forget the first weekend, we are three months in and will finally get our shot."

Turning SAG Winnings Into Oscar Gold?

Seven Eligible For The Oscar In Makeup

The Writer's Guild Nominations
American Society of Cinematographers Nominations
Visual Effects Society Nominations
The Iowa Film Critics Go Sideways
The Online Film Critics Give It To Eternal Sunshine

The Official Unofficial Mind-Bender Of The Slate/Salon Movie Club
The Clint Quiz

David Thomson On Million Dollar Baby, Clint Eastwood, And Why It Will Win Come Oscar Time

Sean Penn Speaks - "I think the biggest thing is to not participate in the damaging, lying cinema."

Fahrenheit 9/11 Does Win People's Choice... Moore Continues To Pretend That Its A Popularity Poll Despite The First Campaign For This Award Ever Run
"We live in a great country and we all love our country very much and I am so amazed that you did this - the people of America; that you voted for this film."

Red Carpet Fashion 2005

NY Daily News On Sideways Bashing Bandwagon

John Anderson Handicaps The Oscars

"Remember where you read this: The Aviator is going to win the Oscar for Best Picture. Take it to the bank"

Two Accounts Of Vote Procedure... The One Disagreement Is Whether One-Sixth Of Votes Gets A Nomination Or One-Fifth
Tom O'Neil On How Oscar Votes Are Counted...
Dec 9 On - Moore's Campaign & How Votes Are Counted

One Gold Derby "Spy" Is Told That Michael Moore & Mel Gibson Have Already Been Tipped To People's Choice Wins... Just As People's Choice Has Always Done (See: Majority Of Pre-Taped Acceptances)

The Academy Announces Its Scientific and Technical Achievement Winners

Hilary Swank On Becoming Maggie Fitzgerald

The Full BAFTA Short List (pdf file)

Javier Bardem: Spain's Sean Penn?

Bemoaning Ineligible Nominations And Looking At AMPAS And Its Foreign Language Oscar

Germany's Downfall Wins In Bavaria

Erik Lundegaard's Trick To Predicting The Oscars: "WWGJD: What Would Gordon Jump Do? That’s The Key."

The Magnificent Seven Academy Candidates For Best Sound Editing

Clive Owen - "The Hardest-Working Actor People Sometimes Haven’t Seen"

The Real-Life Hero Of Hotel Rwanda Has A Message
"This happened in Rwanda 10 years ago. The people of the world were not informed. Today you are informed and again it is happening in Sudan. It has been happening in the Congo for the last 8 years – about 3½ million people have been killed ... are you not going to take action?"

Is It Time Academy Voters Learned Some New Names For Best Actress?

Ed Blank's Oscar Contenders

Commentary By David Poland
Is The New York Times Telling Academy Voters Who To Vote For?

The Real-Life Star Of Hotel Rwanda Has A Message
"This happened in Rwanda 10 years ago. The people of the world were not informed. Today you are informed and again it is happening in Sudan. It has been happening in the Congo for the last 8 years – about 3½ million people have been killed ... are you not going to take action?"

Ebert Talks To Kevin Bacon

Alexander Payne's Passion For Film And For Wine

A.O. Scott Wonders Why Sideways Is Getting So Much Attention

Tom O'Neil On Oscar Pretty Boys... But Not Russell Crowe, Nic Cage, Javier Bardem Or Jamie Foxx

SHOCKER! Four Israeli Jews Don't Like The Passion Of The Christ!

Foundas On Docs, The Oscars, And The Rules

A Look At The Best Picture Race From Down Under

Edelstein Looks At Four Contender Performances - From Penn To Bardem

The Cinemarati Nominate | The Press Release

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