Oscars

10 Animated Shorts Advance For Oscars

Deadline Hollywood Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday

Beverly Hills, CA — The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that 10 animated short films will advance in the voting process for the 82nd Academy Awards®. Thirty-seven pictures had originally qualified in the category. The 10 films are listed below in alphabetical order by title, with their production company: “The Cat Piano,” Eddie White and Ari Gibson,...

• 10 Animated Shorts Move Ahead in 2009 Oscar Race - ComingSoon.net
• Academy Announces 10 Best Animated Short Film Contenders - /Film
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Video Previews for Nine of the Ten Animated Short Film Oscar Contenders

RopeofSilicon: Latest Headlines (Free subscription) | yesterday

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced the ten animated short films that have advanced in the voting process for the 82nd Academy Awards and I have compiled video previews for nine of the ten. The only film I wasn't able to find any video for was Nicolas Schmerkin's Logorama, but I was [...]

• Academy Announces 10 Best Animated Short Film Contenders - /Film
• Academy Announces 10 Best Animated Short Film Contenders - Best Movies 2008
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U2, Nick Cave (But Not Anvil) Among Oscar Hopefuls

Stereogum (Free subscription) | yesterday

The little-documentary-that-could The Story Of Anvil , about the band that was like a "real life Spinal Tap" right down to having a drummer named Robb Reiner, stole everyone's heart this past year. Except for people whose hearts are made of stone. Or metal. Well if your heart was made of \m/ metal then it probably stole your heart, too. But if your heart is made of Oscar-material precious...

10 Animated Shorts Move Ahead in 2009 Oscar(R) Race

Smartcine.com (Free subscription) | yesterday

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that 10 animated short films will advance in the voting process for the 82nd Academy Awards®. Thirty-seven pictures had originally qualified in the category. The 10 films are listed below in alphabetical order by title, with their production company: “The Cat Piano,” Eddie White and Ari Gibson, [...]

Some of These Documentaries Will Be Nominated for an Oscar

[CinemaRatty] Lattest Articles (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009

Specifically, five of them. The preliminary fifteen documentaries that will be cut down to the five that will be Academy Award nominees have been announced. So, uh, here they are: -"The Beaches of...

• Academy Selects 15 Documentary Hopefuls to its Shortlist - FirstShowing.net
• Snub! The Story of Snub - Film Experience Blog
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Oscar Short List of Documentaries Draws Controversy

New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009

A screening committee from the documentary branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences overlooked at least a half-dozen prominent films.

Shorts Short List

Michael Sporn Animation - Splog (Free subscription) | yesterday

The Renaissance Master - 4 will conclude tomorrow, Sunday. - There have been a number of newspaper articles about the released short list of Academy Award entrees for Best Documentary. Many of the more popular films - such as Michael Moore’s Capitalism: a love story and The September Issue - have been left off the list. [...]

Memorial celebration to be held for late comedy writer Larry Gelbart

L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago

The award-winning writer died Sept. 11. A celebration of the life of award-winning comedy writer Larry Gelbart, who died Sept. 11 at age 81, will be held at 7 p.m. Dec. 10 at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 8949 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills.

Friday Linkage

TAG Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday

Your Friday linkfest ... Years in the making and still not done ? Less than a month before the scheduled release of James Cameron's new movie, "Avatar," some scenes from the costly special-effects extravaganza remain unfinished. Pressure to complete the project by the Dec. 18 release date has risen to the point where crews are working "24-8"—that is, eight days a week—said...

Academy Salute to UPA in New York

Cartoon Brew (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009

I just found out that as part of its monthly Monday Nights With Oscar film series in New York, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will present eight 35mm UPA shorts, including Academy Award winners Gerald McBoing Boing (1950) and Mister Magoo’s Puddle Jumper (1956), in a program selected and hosted by Oscar-winning [...]

L.A. Film Fest gets $30K grant

Variety.com (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009

Los Angeles: AMPAS funds will help new filmmakers -- The foundation arm of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has awarded the Los Angeles Film Festival a $30,000 grant to help make the fest more accessible and give greater access to emerging filmmakers.

David Thomson on Frank Langella

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009

'Frank Langella's role in The Box could easily win an Oscar for best 10-minute performance in a film with no other redeeming feature' Frank Langella will be 72 on New Year's Day, and he is ready. I was going to add "at last". Because for decades he seemed an uneasy actor on screen. His stage reputation was beyond dispute, and people said that he looked the part – tall, dark and thirsty...

Moore Snubbed!

PerezHilton.com (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009

Burn! You must have really pissed someone(s) off at the Academy, Michael Moore. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has just released their short list of contenders for this year's Oscar's Best Documentary category. A noticeable name absent who had a huge profiled documentary this year was Moore! No word if Michael pulled the [...]

‘Capitalism’ and ‘Anvil’ Fail to Make Best Documentary Oscar Shortlist

Film School Rejects (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences revealed their list of the final group of 15 films that will contend for the Best Documentary Feature award this week, and with said announcement comes a twinge of bittersweetness.

• Michael Moore, Anvil and Mike Tyson Left Off Oscar Short List - /Film
• Oscar's Documentary Shortlist: No 'Anvil,' No 'Capitalism' - Cinematical
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VIDEO: Mariah Carey Talks About Her Appearance In 'Precious'

Black Voices Blogs (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009

Filed under: Interviews With 'Precious' landing in fourth place at the box office last week (in less than 200 theaters) and expanding to about 800 theaters this weekend, it should ease the minds of many who have been waiting patiently to see the Oscar worthy film. For Mariah Carey, who plays social worker Ms. Weiss, the role has reinvigorated her film career. Some have even speculated that she's in...

Angelina Jolie Superhit Actress Movie Pictures Biography Wallpapers

farzana11 | 11/10/2009

ngelina Jolie (born Angelina Jolie Voight on June 4, 1975) is an American film actor and a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency. She is often cited by the media as one of the world's most beautiful women and her off-screen life is widely reported. She has received three Golden Globe Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and an Academy Award.

Could 'This Is It' win an Oscar?

azra15uwt | 11/08/2009

LOS ANGELES – Sony thinks its new Michael Jackson documentary could be a contender for best picture. Spokesman Steve Elzer said Thursday that the studio will submit "Michael Jackson's This Is It" for Academy Awards consideration this year. It missed the deadline to be considered for a 2009 documentary Oscar, but the film about the late King of Pop's preparations for a series of comeback concerts will...

Watch A Christmas Carol Online | Download A Christmas Carol Movie Free

trangleso | 11/07/2009

Do you Love Movies but don’t have a reliable source to get them when you want them! Now I’m downloading movies and burning my own Videos CDs for free! There is no computer experience and any kind of tools needed to download A Christmas Carol or any of my favorite movies and TV shows and burn them to CD. Oh yeah… many movie download programs come with spyware and adware so I also wanted to download...