Oscars spark movie punditry aplenty
Now that the 82nd Academy Awards nominations have been announced, the silly season of movie punditry is in full swing. Everywhere – from blogs such as this, to slick magazine layouts, to TV talk shows,...
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Oscar’s Farm System for Future Stars
Just as baseball’s future stars learn their chops playing in the minor leagues, Oscar, too, has its own unofficial farm system for training major-league filmmakers of the future. It’s the nation’s...
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Oscar Guesses: Let the Darts Fly
Jeremy Renner in a scene from "The Hurt Locker." BY DENNIS KING Having earned a living for a couple of decades by babbling on about movies, it is perhaps impolitic to admit that I’m not very good at...
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Oscars outcome: Sure things and tough calls
BY GENE TRIPLETT The battle of the exes is the main event on an Oscar night that promises to be long and arduous thanks to the wisdom of Academy governors, who figured doubling the number of Best...
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The Academy’s dearly departed
Morbid as it seems to admit, one of the things we most anticipate about each year’s Oscar telecast is the video montage paying homage to Academy members who’ve died in the past year. Blake Edwards But...
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Oscar guesses: Anglophilia versus Yankee ingenuity
BY DENNIS KING Each year, we begin our obligatory pre-Oscar guessing game with the same disclaimer: In our 20-plus years of babbling about movies in print, we confess to a pretty paltry track record at...
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Oscar picks: Critic calls long shot in top feature race
BY GENE TRIPLETT Fact is giving fiction a run for its money in this year’s Oscar race, with four of the 10 Best Picture nominees based on true stories and real people. Biopics of a pair of boxing...
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Oscar guessing: Odds or dumb luck?
BY DENNIS KING I have a friend who prides himself on correctly guessing Oscar winners every year – despite the fact that he rarely ever sees any of the nominated movies. With a cold eye, he scans the...
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Oscars: Gone But Not Forgotten
Sometime during every Academy Awards telecast, there comes a break from the incessant glamour and self-congratulations for a solemn moment of reflection. Elizabeth Taylor That’s when they air that most...
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Oscars: Guessing who gets the gold (or) The good, the bad and the neglected
BY GENE TRIPLETT When Albert Brooks found out he’d been passed over in the Supporting Actor category, he shot back at the Academy via Twitter: “You don’t like me. You really don’t like me.” Jean...
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