Musings, odds and analysis of the movie awards season leading up to Oscar night, from Detroit News Film Critic Tom Long and Pop Culture writer Adam Graham.
After yesterday’s Screen Actors Guild awards, the Oscar race is now officially a beautiful mess. All the tea leaves point now to an upset win for “Argo” in the best picture category, despite the fact that “Argo” director Ben Affleck was not nominated for an Oscar. “Argo” won best ensemble at the SAG awards (basically … Continue Reading →
The nominations for this year’s Detroit Film Critics Society awards were posted this morning. Winners will be announced Friday… 1. BEST PICTURE ARGO THE IMPOSSIBLE SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK TAKE THIS WALTZ ZERO DARK THIRTY 2. BEST DIRECTOR BEN AFFLECK – ARGO JUAN ANTONIO BAYONA – THE IMPOSSIBLE KATHERINE BIGELOW – ZERO DARK THIRTY SARAH POLLEY … Continue Reading →
The Toronto International Film Festival ended last weekend. “The Master” is opening wide this weekend. The race to this year’s Oscars has begun. And now so has our official coverage of the race. Coming out of Toronto there were a number of clear contenders as well as a few fuzzy ones. They are: “Silver Linings … Continue Reading →
Met with John Hawkes (“Winter’s Bone,” “Me and You and Everyone We Know,” “Deadwood”) this morning. What a gracious and personable guy. Right now he’s the clear frontrunner for the best actor Oscar for “The Sessions,” in which he plays a polio victim in an iron lung who wants to lose his virginity. But obviously … Continue Reading →
Way better day. Way, way. Remembering why I love movies. Started out with “Love is All You Need,” a supposed comedy by Oscar winning (“In a Better World,” foreign film) director Susanne Bier. It is funny a good deal of the time, but in a complex, layered European brilliant way. This woman is known for … Continue Reading →
She already has one Oscar nomination on her resume at age 21. Isn’t it likely that Jennifer Lawrence will get another one for “The Hunger Games”? Uh, not really. But anything’s possible. Anything but winning. The idea that Lawrence might score an Oscar for her fine turn in the year’s biggest movie so far is … Continue Reading →
OK, final, final, final thoughts on this year’s Oscars. Except for Thursday’s Go article which is already written I made 13 picks, I got 11 right. That shows the competition was way, way too predictable. Jeez, I’m doing this from Detroit, it’s not like I’m schmoozing at cocktail parties in Beverly Hills. Last year I … Continue Reading →
OK, by now, anybody who cares knows my Oscar picks for the top six categories, which are real freaking exclusive, because as far as I can tell, they are virtually EVERYBODY’s Oscar picks for the top six categories. They go: Artist, Artist, Jean Dujardin, Viola Davis, Christopher Plummer, Octavia Spencer, Fall asleep in your Fritos. … Continue Reading →
Kevin Bacon is reportedly signing on to hunt serial killers on Fox TV in a new series from producer Kevin Williamson (“Scream,” “Dawson’s Creek”). So you can add Bacon’s name to the long and luminous list of feature film actors who’ve turned to the now not-so-small screen for employment, exposure and worthy material. Crossover between … Continue Reading →
It will likely have no effect on which movie wins the Oscar, but… Adam previously wrote about “Extremely Close and Incredibly Loud” being possibly the worst-reviewed film ever to receive an Oscar nomination for best film. It’s certainly the worst-reviewed in memory. And let’s just say it — simply the worst film. But it got … Continue Reading →