Category Archives: Oscar Talk

Those Oscar Missed: Best Production Design

Posted on November 18, 2012 by filmscorehunter

CONTRIBUTED BY JAKE THOMPSON Best Production Design is one of my favorite Oscar categories. This is the category where artists can shine the most. There’s been so much great work over the years that was thankfully nominated (and most of … Continue reading →

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Variety’s Ten Greatest Scores

Posted on November 15, 2012 by Zac Petrillo

In a recent music-centric article, Variety polled 40 composers about the best scores of all time. The article also contains nice tidbits about this year’s Oscar race – including write-ups about Benh Zeitlin’s “Gumbo” style in Beast of the Southern … Continue reading →

Posted in Best Original Score, Films, Movies, Oscar Talk | Tagged Academy Awards, Bernard Herrmann, best original score, Chinatown, cinema, E.T., Ennio Morricone, Films, Jerry Goldsmith, john williams, Movies, Once Upon A Time In The West, oscars, Plaet of the Apes, Psycho, Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, The Mission, The Shawshank Redemption, Vertigo | Leave a comment

OSCAR FORECAST: Best Picture 2013

Posted on November 14, 2012 by Zac Petrillo

Best Picture Predictions (as of 11-14-12): Argo Silver Linings Playbook Lincoln Les Misérables Life of Pi Django Unchained Moonrise Kingdom Hitchcock Considering all the great movies that have appeared since I last wrote about Best Picture, there’s surprisingly little change … Continue reading →

Posted in Best Picture, Films, Movies, Oscar Talk, Uncategorized | Tagged Academy Awards, Amour, Anna Karenina, Argo, Beasts of the Southern Wild, best picture, cinema, Django Unchained, film, Flight, Hitchcock, Les Miserables, Life of Pi, Lincoln, Moonrise Kingdom, Movies, oscars, predictions, The Master, The Sessions, The Silver Linings Playbook, Zero Dark Thirty | 1 Comment

Those Oscar Missed: Best Original Song

Posted on November 12, 2012 by filmscorehunter

CONTRIBUTED BY JAKE THOMPSON Best Original Song has always been a bit of an odd category to me. I have found that terrible movies that still get Oscar nominations will fall into two categories. If it’s a bad big budget, … Continue reading →

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Simpsons Short Makes Academy List

Posted on November 10, 2012 by Zac Petrillo

The Academy Awards yesterday announced the list of Animated Short Films that will compete for a nomination. Included are the annual Disney entry, Paperman, and work from a handful of film schools around the world, such as Head over Heels … Continue reading →

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Those Oscar Missed: Best Visual Effects

Posted on November 9, 2012 by filmscorehunter

GUEST COLUMN BY JAKE THOMPSON Visual Effects can be a difficult category to predict sometimes. In a given year, the most obvious of choices will deservedly get nominated. But every now and then, one of the nominees will make us … Continue reading →

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Those Oscar Missed: Best Original Score

Posted on November 6, 2012 by filmscorehunter

GUEST COLUMN BY JAKE THOMPSON I have to admit that it was extremely difficult to pick just five major snubs of all time in the Best Original Score Oscar category (musical/song/adaptation scores are not included here). There were so many … Continue reading →

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A Mother Scorned: Blood of My Blood (Sangue do Meu Sangue)

Posted on November 5, 2012 by Zac Petrillo

Portugal’s submission for this coming Oscars, Blood of My Blood, justifies its slow progression by patiently allowing excruciating moments to play amongst soup operatic drama. Until the soap opera takes a strange turn in the final act, the manufactured-cum-realistic approach … Continue reading →

Posted in Blood of my Blood, Films, Movies, Oscar Talk, Reviews, Uncategorized | Tagged Anabela Moreira, Blood of my Blood, cinema, Films, João Canijo, Movies, Oscar Foreign Submission, Portugal, Rafael Morais, Reviews, Rita Blanco | Leave a comment

Cinema Eye Honors

Posted on November 4, 2012 by Zac Petrillo

There’s little parity between this year’s Cinema Eye nominations and the recently announced IDA noms. This kind of discrepancy is typical in the documentary world for many reasons, mostly diversity of opinions amongst groups, but also eligibility requirements and release … Continue reading →

Posted in Central Park Five, Detropia, Documentary, Films, Movies, News, Oscar Talk, Uncategorized | Tagged 5 Broken Cameras, Academy Awards, cinema, Cinema Eye, Detropia, Docuemenary, Films, Ken Burns, Marina Abramovic The Artist is Present, Movies, Only the Young, oscars, Searching for Sugar Man, The Imposter | 3 Comments

UPDATED: Oscars 2013 Predictions

Posted on November 3, 2012 by Zac Petrillo

The premiere of Hitchcock was met with ecstatic reviews from some important critics and lukewarm responses from others. Most complaints seem to find the film thin, humorous, light, and plagued by conspicuous makeup. The consensus is that Helen Mirren has … Continue reading →

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