Oscar Watch 2009 Archives

Academy Awards To Potentially Drop Best Original Song? Music Branch Makes It Easier To Lose Category

June 29, 2009 3:59 pm

There's more Oscar changes in the air. Sure, the Academy Awards have decided to get all wacky and include 10 Best Picture nominees this year, what the hell, right?But the first alarm bell to sound is that of le...

Post-Cannes: Why The Prizes Don’t Really Mean Jack For Oscar

Rodrigo Perez

May 29, 2009 5:32 pm

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If you've read our blog enough you probably know that super early Oscar prognosticating gets on our nerves since it's just wildly speculative and usually, making mountains out of molehills. But this is what som...

Why So Serious? ‘The Dark Knight’ Oscar Outrage Begins

Rodrigo Perez

January 22, 2009 5:47 pm

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When Oscar goes black ("There Will Be Blood," "No Country For Old Men") or young ("Juno") people are cool with it, but when Oscar fails to recognize super heroes, genre films and or old people remember to vote ...

Josh Brolin Talks ‘W’ Arrest For First Time: “None Of Us Were Drunk”

Rodrigo Perez

October 9, 2008 5:42 pm

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Josh Brolin has talked about his "W" arrest for the first time. "None of us were drunk, we had just finished shooting three or four hours before. We were out...in the beginning, it was like okay! It was tim...

Lame: ‘Waltz With Bashir’ Not Eligible For Best Documentary Film At Oscars

Rodrigo Perez

October 7, 2008 5:24 pm

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A change in already Arcane Academy Awards rules and politics have made it so Ari Folman's animated look at the 1983 Beirut massacre, "Waltz With Bashir," won't be eligible to run in the Best Documentary Film Os...

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