Plus: New Line’s anti-climax, and the Oscars duck and cover.
A California appeals court has refused to force the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to give a “retroactive Oscar” to Bob Yari for producing Crash. Yari was excluded from the film’s 2005 Best Picture win when the Academy changed qualification rules the same year, limiting a film’s eligible number of producers to three. [...]
Alex Gibney says his Hunter S. Thompson doc is a critique of the present day media’s obsession with “phony” objectivity.
February 27, 2008 – 3:00 pm
Interview with Stefan Ruzowitzky, winner for the Best Foreign Film: THE COUNTERFEITERS.
February 27, 2008 – 8:57 am
Is it too “gory,” or did the filmmakers want too much money? This Variety story offers both as potential reasons for why the Amy Adams/Emily Blunt Sundance comedy Sunshine Cleaning, which was pegged before and during the festival as an almost sure-thing candidate for a sale, is only now closing a distribution deal with Overture [...]
February 26, 2008 – 8:45 am
Rick Kissell says we shouldn’t be surprised that Sunday night’s Oscar telecast earned its lowest ratings, um, ever: “A batch of films with mostly grim themes, combined with an awards season that lacked any real momentum thanks to the writers strike, contributed to this year’s alarming 20% falloff.” The people, they just want to laugh! [...]
February 25, 2008 – 4:55 pm
Nobody watched the Oscars, and those who did were bored. What can the Academy do to make the 2009 show better?
February 25, 2008 – 3:34 pm
Watch last night’s greatest moments on YouTube! In five years!
February 25, 2008 – 9:08 am
All news is Oscars news this morning, I’m afraid. I sorted through the sour milkshakes of Variety and The Hollywood Reporter’s packages so you wouldn’t have to.
February 24, 2008 – 12:49 pm
Starting around 7:30 PM EST tonight, Karina will be live-Twittering from Spout and The Reeler’s Oscar party in NYC. You can follow Karina on Twitter to get her posts sent directly to your cell phone or instant messenger or, better yet, keep refreshing this page for the latest updates. You can also talk back to [...]
