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The Oscar Grouch: Do Numbers Matter?
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Grumbling about the Awards I love to hate and hate to love. Thursday, February 24, 2005. The last three times that occurred were in 2001, 1991 and 1981 (notice any superficial patterns there? In a distant second to. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings. 8 nominations to 13). In 1991,. The Silence of the Lambs. Was tied for third with. The Prince of Tides. 7 nominations apiece), behind both. 10 nominations). Finally, in 1981,. Placed fourth with barely more than half the nominations of.
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The Oscar Grouch: August 2004
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Grumbling about the Awards I love to hate and hate to love. Tuesday, August 31, 2004. Questions. and Answers? Welcome to The Oscar Grouch! Let me start off by saying that it’s ridiculously early to be prognosticating the year’s Academy Award nominees. At this point, with most of the likely pool of movies. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. The Life of David Gale. Not to mention non-starters that. Star Kevin Spacey like. The Age of Innocence. The Talented Mr. Ripley. Beauty and the Beast. But before...
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The Oscar Grouch: The Oscar Grouch's 2005 Academy Award Predictions
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Grumbling about the Awards I love to hate and hate to love. Friday, February 25, 2005. The Oscar Grouch's 2005 Academy Award Predictions. Who I’m Rooting For: Uh, I guess. Will Win: Martin Scorsese,. Potential Spoiler: Clint Eastwood,. Dark Horse: Alexander Payne,. Who I’m Rooting For: Martin Scorsese,. Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role. Will Win: Jamie Foxx,. Potential Spoiler: Clint Eastwood,. Dark Horse: Leonardo DiCaprio,. Who I’m Rooting For: Johnny Depp,. Will Win: Hilary Swank,. Dark ...
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The Oscar Grouch: Best Art Direction
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Grumbling about the Awards I love to hate and hate to love. Wednesday, February 23, 2005. The Art Directors Guild is more in step with the Academy than their Costume Designing counterparts. Win is by no means guaranteed in this category either. Pointless Trend Alert: The ADG’s mismatches have occurred in every even year after their inception in 1996 (when. Won both the ADG and Academy Awards). If this pattern holds, then we’re due for another mismatch this year, and another potential win for. When I star...
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The Oscar Grouch: November 2004
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Grumbling about the Awards I love to hate and hate to love. Thursday, November 18, 2004. It’s time to dispel another Oscar myth: That The Academy is racist. It’s an easy accusation to make (one I most recently spotted here. Unfortunately, there are very few quality, Oscar-baiting roles for minorities in Hollywood (a discussion of the many reasons why is better left for another time and one that could tie into my last post. Off the top of my head:. A Time To Kill. Any early buzz for the actors in. But tha...
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The Oscar Grouch: October 2004
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Grumbling about the Awards I love to hate and hate to love. Thursday, October 07, 2004. Who's going to foot the bill for. Lion's Gate and IFC Films, who handled stateside theatrical distribution, have little to gain now that the film is out of their hands. Abroad, the documentary is split between a more diverse international coalition. Than President Bush had going into Iraq, so no. Company has enough vested interest. Posted by The Pop Culture Petri Dish @ 3:40 PM. The Pop Culture Petri Dish. The Pop Cul...
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The Oscar Grouch: Trojan Horse
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Grumbling about the Awards I love to hate and hate to love. Wednesday, February 23, 2005. There may be no less accurate an Oscar precursor than the USC Scripter Award in recognition of the Best Realization of a Book Adapted to Film. Dare I say, it’s even something of a jinx like the Best New Artist award at the Grammys. Of the seventeen movies that had won as of last year, only four went on to win Best Adapted Screenplay at the Oscars. Even fewer (only three. Picked up Best Picture Awards from the Academy.
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The Oscar Grouch: And this time... IT'S PERSONAL!!!
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Grumbling about the Awards I love to hate and hate to love. Thursday, February 10, 2005. And this time. IT'S PERSONAL! Granted, Bening’s last-minute SAG upset (and that was the. Upset that year) threw many Oscar prognosticators off (including yours truly remember though, this was the year after the Screen Actors were the only major signifiers of Roberto Benigni’s Oscar win (no offense, Las Vegas Film Critics) and. American Comedy Awards (Swank not eligible). San Diego Film Critics Society Awards. By my c...
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The Oscar Grouch: The Big Ones
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Grumbling about the Awards I love to hate and hate to love. Friday, February 25, 2005. No two categories are more distressing for me at the moment than the two big ones Best Picture and Best Directing. And in recent years, the two have not gone hand-in-hand as much as in the past. This year, the Best Picture race comes down to intellect vs. emotion, which isn’t to say that. Doesn’t appeal to people on an intellectual basis or that. Is without a heart. But it seems that most of. Now has. Many (includi...
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The Oscar Grouch: Last Minute Nomination Predictions
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Grumbling about the Awards I love to hate and hate to love. Monday, January 30, 2006. Last Minute Nomination Predictions. My fearless predictions (ranked in order of likelihood):. 3 Good Night, and Good Luck. 1 Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain. 2 George Clooney, Good Night, and Good Luck. 3 Steven Spielberg, Munich. 4 Bennett Miller, Capote. 5 Fernando Meirelies, The Constant Gardener. 1 Philip Seymour Hoffman, Capote. 2 Heath Ledger, Brokeback Mountain. 3 Joaquin Phoenix, Walk the Line. 4 Matt Dillon, Crash.