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9/17 Oscarweb Round-up
• The Chateau Marmont, setting of Sofia Coppola’s “Somewhere,” is ready for its close-up across the pond. [The Independent] • Jay Fernandez reports from the Washington premiere of “Waiting for...
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‘Waiting for Superman’ does Oprah
I offered up my thoughts on Davis Guggenheim’s “Waiting for Superman” back when the film played the Los Angeles Film Festival in June. My position is that the film, however emotional, doesn’t...
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John Legend performs ‘Shine’
A few months back we featured a video of John Legend performing Best Original Song contender “Shine” from “Waiting for Superman.” Today, though, via Wall Street Journal’s Speakeasy blog, I stumbled...
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10/8 OSCARWEB ROUND-UP: ‘Superman’ does well, Paramount grabs Reitman’s next,...
• Davis Guggenheim’s “Waiting for Superman” has performed better than several other high profile releases. [The Envelope] • David Poland sits down with “Let Me In” director Matt Reeves. [Movie City...
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10/12 OSCARWEB ROUND-UP: Obama with the ‘Superman’ kids, handicapping the...
• President Obama met with children featured in the film “Waiting for Superman” yesterday. [Associated Press] • Handicapping this year’s documentary feature Oscar race. [Vulture] • Dave Karger explains...
View ArticleObama meets with the ‘Waiting for Superman’ kids
In one of the round-ups this week I mentioned the White House visit that has been a nice bit of publicity for the “Waiting for Superman” cause (also discussed at length in today’s Oscar Talk podcast)....
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John Legend and The Roots perform ‘Shine’
In lieu of a proper “listen to” item on John Legend’s “Shine” from “Waiting for Superman” (since I’ve already featured the tune twice), I thought I’d post up this video of the singer performing the...
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Taking aim at ‘Waiting for Superman’
When I saw Davis Guggenheim’s “Waiting for Superman” at the Los Angeles Film Festival in June, I noted that “the film casts a broad net when it would have been something more as a focused study” and...
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WEEKLY WRAP: ‘127 Hours’ dissent, BIFA nods, interviews
• Guy didn’t much care for “127 Hours.” That got you talking. • Happily, Kris did, and got talking to director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Simon Beaufoy. • The British Independent Film Award...
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15 films shortlisted for documentary feature Oscar
Cue the annual outcry over what titles didn’t make it — judging from the Twitter reaction, this year’s most-mourned snubee is the Chinese critical darling “Last Train Home.” (I’d join the...
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December winner predictions
I haven’t bothered taking a stab at predicting this year’s Oscar winners yet. Now seems like the right time, given that everything has been seen (save for two Sony entries with comedy stylings that...
View ArticlePGA nominates documentaries
Via press release, the nominees are: “Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer” “Earth Made of Glass” “Inside Job” “Smash His Camera” “The Tillman Story” “Waiting for Superman”
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TECH SUPPORT: Best Original Song
I guess I’ve been pretty hard on the Best Original Song category this year. It’s not like any given year tends to have a deluge of impressive fodder up for consideration or anything, but on the whole,...
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If I had a ballot
The year is winding down. Today, as part of the week’s on-going year-in-review specials, I’m offering up my annual “if I had a ballot” post. In years past I’ve tended to defer to studio campaigns for...
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January winner predictions
After taking a stab at winner predictions early last month, it seemed now would be a good time to re-assess. Only three adjustments, though — for Best Picture, Best Film Editing and Best Original...
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A look at Oscar’s 15 documentary feature hopefuls
While Guy has been surveying the foreign field, I’ve been diving in elsewhere. It has been considered a banner year for documentary filmmaking. So naturally, the Best Documentary Feature race has been...
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TECH SUPPORT: Final analysis, part one
It seems hard to believe that it’s been more than six months since I wrote this year’s introductory Tech Support column ( a dissection of the art direction race). Much has changed since then,...
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Banksy joshes Guggenheim in Cinema Eye speech
Yesterday I dug through the 15 documentary feature short-listers to offer an idea of how that race might turn out. Over the weekend, the perceived heavy of the crowd, “Exit Through the Gift Shop”...
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‘King’s Speech’ wins in PGA shocker
Tonight’s PGA awards were the first stab at the preferential ballot for this year’s Best Picture hopefuls. The big winner in the feature film field was…oh my…“The King’s Speech.” Considering this is a...
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‘King’s Speech’ leads the pack with 12 Oscar nominations
On the face of it, the nominees for the 83rd annual Academy Awards seemed fairly unremarkable. Aside from the deafening nature of not hearing Christopher Nolan’s name in the line-up for Best Director...
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