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Happy Oscar week everyone! It’s a big week here at Award Contenders. I will be extremely busy wrapping up my final Oscar predictions, as well as giving you the last two installments in our first annual Aycee Awards. On Thursday evening, at 10 p.m. EST, I will be participating in Jason O’Brien’s annual …
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Down to the last two installments in our first ever Aycee Awards! Today we have the results of your choices for Best Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, Original Screenplay and Adapted Screenplay. Check out the winners after the jump…
Here is the most up to date list of Oscar presenters for this Sunday’s (omg, omg, omg) Oscar ceremony: Annette Bening Halle Berry Russell Brand Jeff Bridges Sandra Bullock Robert Downey Jr. Tom Hanks Hugh Jackman Scarlett Johansson Nicole Kidman Jude Law Alan Menken, Mandy Moore, Zachary Levi, Randy Newman, Gwyneth Paltrow, A.R. Rahman (musical performers) Marisa Tomei Florence Welch Oprah Winfrey …
It’s almost Oscar time. Whatever you think, however you feel about the Academy Awards and awards in general, there’s little arguing with the eighty plus years of history and rich tradition of this still most prestigious and popular of movie honors. For many years now the most interesting part of the awards for …
As many of you know, Meryl Streep will be playing British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the upcoming film, The Iron Lady. Could this role earn her the much deserved 3rd Oscar she has been chasing for 27 years? Streep has said of the role: “I am trying to approach the role with as much …
Today on video we have a whole lot of movies that I decided to pass on in 2010. The one I did manage to see was It’s Kind of a Funny Story, starring Zach Galifianakis (The Hangover), Keir Gilchrist, and Emma Roberts. This is definitely a cute film, well worth a rent. You can read my …
The 7th [ and final….FINALLY!!!] part of the Aycee Awards is here! This last set includes Original and Adapted Screenplay, Best Director and of course, Best Film of 2010. Here is a recap of all the Aycee Awards categories: Best Animated Documentary Comedy Action Film Special Effects Cinematography Character Quote Song Score Trailer Poster Most Overrated Most Underrated Breakthrough Male …
There is some talk going around about how Melissa Leo may have hurt her chances at taking home an Oscar later this month for her performance in The Fighter. Having won a load of critics awards, a Golden Globe, and the SAG, most pundits have Leo out in front for Oscar, with Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit) …
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When I read the obit of actor Tony Curtis last September I uttered “thank God!” under my breath. Not thank God that he was dead, but thank God that by a stroke of serendipity I had somehow managed to have a brief, interesting encounter with him about this time a year ago, a mere …