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‘The Help,’ Dujardin win at lively SAG Awards

Finally, an awards show with some surprises and spontaneity.

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An Unexpected Globes from Gervais: No Harm, No Foul, No Memories

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For all the hype, Ricky Gervais spent most of the night out of his usual discomfort zone.

A Full List of the 2012 Golden Globe Winners

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Winners of the 69th annual Golden Globe Awards, announced Sunday in Beverly Hills, Calif.:

Film Critics' Awards: An Early Clue to Oscar Nominations

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The reviewers groups favored The Artist, George Clooney and Michelle Williams. Will their preferences be reflected in the Oscar nominations?

Golden Globe Nominations: Pitt and Clooney In, Spielberg and Malick Out

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A Madonna movie received two more noms than The Tree of Life. This is just one way the Golden Globes are crazy.

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Golden Globe TV Nominations: Another Round of Hits and Disses

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Why I got over my caring-who-the-Golden-Globes-pick problem a while ago.

The Artist Leads 2011 Golden Globe Nominations With Six Bids

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Silent film is taking over Hollywood’s awards scene. The silent-era tale “The Artist” heads the Golden Globes with six nominations, among them best comedy or musical and acting honors for its French stars.

Firth’s Theorem: Awards Season and the Anglophile Biopic

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We’ve come up with a simple formula to help determine if a film is going to get any Oscar love.

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In Which I Help Inflict Another Ten-Best List on You

The American Film Institute announced its 2011 awards for the ten best films and TV shows on Sunday. This year, as I have been a few times before, I was on the jury (along with other critics, including Tim Goodman, Matt Roush and Ken Tucker, and numerous TV-biz professionals). If you’ve read my own ten-best [...]

The 2012 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees: Then and Now

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This year, The Beastie Boys, Guns N’ Roses, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Donovan, The Small Faces and Laura Nyro join a long list of rock legends

New York Film Critics Can't Wait to Give Their Top Prizes to The Artist

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The gropu also names Brad Pitt and Meryl Streep as Best Actor and Actress, and Albert Brooks and Jessica Chastain in the supporting categories

Offensive What? Ricky Gervais to Host 2012 Golden Globes

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Ricky Gervais will return to host the 69th annual Golden Globes, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association confirmed today. This will be Gervais’ third year in a row hosting the awards telecast despite the fact that he drew strong criticism for his mockery of the Hollywood elite at this year’s Golden Globes.

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Red Carpet Showdown: Disney Yanks ABC from Cablevision on Oscar Day

A showdown between Disney, the parent company of ABC, and New York-area cable provider Cablevision went nuclear today, as the Mouse pulled the Alphabet from the—um, the cable-TV company—just before its biggest broadcast of the year, the Academy Awards. If you’re like me, the details of these contretemps make your eyes glaze over, but the [...]

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Vacation Robo-Post: Brilliant-But-Canceled Shows of the '00s

As long as we’re remembering the decade in television, here’s a list of a dozen shows that could have been among the decade’s best, but lasted only a season or two (or less) before being snuffed out. (Note: I put Freaks and Geeks on my Best of the Decade list, and not here, because I [...]

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Vacation Robo-Post: The 2009 Cincy Awards

Yesterday, I announced Tuned In’s newest year-end award: The Cincies, honoring TV’s most interesting failures of the year. You can read yesterday’s post for the explanation. Today, after the jump, I hereby announce the 2009 Cincies:

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Vacation Robo-Post: Introducing the Cincies: What Were TV's Most Interesting Failures?

I sometimes think that we critics spend too much list-making time focusing on the wrong things. Best-TV-of-the-year lists are fun to read, but there’s a lot of overlap among them. Worst-TV lists are more diverse, but TV offers so many easy targets; does it take much insight to beat up on I’m a Celebrity, Get [...]

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Vacation Robo-Post: The 10 Worst TV Shows of 2009

This is the time of year when we celebrate the achievements of mankind that have ennobled the arts. Which is so totally boring! Celebrate, celebrate, celebrate—fellow Tuned Inlanders, it is time to denigrate! After the jump, I hereby present my Bottom 10 TV Shows of 2009. I limited myself to 10. You don’t have to; [...]

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Those Other People's Top 10 Lists

The top-ten lists are starting to come out fast and furious, in TV as in everything else, and this weekend AFI released its list of the top 10 TV shows (as well as top 10 movies) of the year. Having been on the AFI jury a couple times before (most recently in 2008), I feel [...]