What are TV viewers seeking from their annual Oscar fix? The same thing they want from movies: drama, comedy, sex,…
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Oscar envelopes have been full of surprises over the years, yet one pattern persists: academy voters are moved by affliction.From…
Timing is everything in the Oscar race. Except when it's not.This year's Academy Awards field has done more than most…
On the strength of director Angelina Jolie’s Unbroken (Universal Pictures), two sound editors earned their first Oscar nominations, a sound mixer…
For his first feature film, The Imitation Game (The Weinstein Company), writer Graham Moore has earned an Oscar nomination for Best…
Two weeks before the glamour of the Oscars, the film academy hosted its annual “night of the nerds” honoring software…
Art and commerce aren’t necessarily mutually exclusive. In fact they can flourish in tandem as evidenced by the performance of…
It’s been a gratifying awards season for writer/producer Anthony McCarten who last month earned his first career Oscar nominations–Best Picture…
“Most of us directors are control freaks. That’s why films like this don’t get made,” said Richard Linklater in reference…
Pawel Pawlikowski tried to make his film a flop. He shot it in black-and-white, in Polish and without any well-known…