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After Eddie Murphy pulled out of hosting the Oscars, the Academy called in veteran past host Billy Crystal to step in. The aim, presumably, was to have a reliable hand who could be counted on to get up to speed quickly, someone …
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It’s not a rhetorical question. I actually want to know.
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Performance, like politics, has a lot to do with setting expectations. Ricky Gervais’ hosting performance at last year’s Golden Globes was incendiary partly for its content–acid jokes about Scientology, corruption and Robert …
The reviewers groups favored The Artist, George Clooney and Michelle Williams. Will their preferences be reflected in the Oscar nominations?
They love George Clooney, Ryan Gosling and of course Brangelina. They’re so over Spielberg. And they didn’t care at all for The Tree of Life.
This morning, when the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s Golden Globe award …
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The Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced the nominations for January’s Golden Globe Awards this morning. I got over my caring-who-the-Golden-Globes-pick problem a while ago. The awards are fun as a show—I never miss …
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — 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 …
In a recent issue of TIME, we postulated Firth’s Theorem, a simple equation for calculating a movie’s odds of winning nominations and statuettes during awards season. Here’s how it works:
1) Is the movie about famous, …
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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 list, you know how I voted, …
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
The Gotham gang also names Brad Pitt and Meryl Streep as Best Actor and Actress, and Albert Brooks and Jessica Chastain in the supporting categories
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 …
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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, …
