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 …
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Firth’s Theorem: Awards Season and the Anglophile Biopic
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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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 list, you know how I voted, …
The 2012 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees: Then and Now
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
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
Offensive What? Ricky Gervais to Host 2012 Golden Globes
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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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, …
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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 thought it managed to fully realize its vision in …
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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 Me Out of Here?
Of course …
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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; add your nominees in …
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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 especially invested in this one. After the jump, the list, and a …