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As you may be noticing, this page has been going through several changes today as I restructure and redesign it to its new form. My apologies if this is distracting or difficult to look at. In the end, it will be worth it, but for now, it does look like a mess.
Please stick with me as I make these transitions to a new layout as I'm working with other people's code, so I don't always know where the information I want to change is located, so it may take a few days for everything to start looking normalized again.
Thanks for your patience.
Precursor: Annie Awards
Below are the winners of the 37th Annie Awards.
Winner Totals
The Winners
Animated Feature: Up
Animated Short: Robot Chicken: Star Wars 2.5
Animated Effects: The Princess and the Frog - James Mansfield
Character Animation: The Princess and the Frog - Eric Goldberg
Character Design: Coraline - Shane Prigmore
Directing: Pete Docter - Up
Music: Coraline - Bruno Coulais
Production Design: Coraline - Tadahiro - Uesugi
Storyboarding: Monsters vs. Aliens - Tom Owens
And the Continuation Goes to...
Precursor: USC Scripter Winner
Best Adapted Screenplay
Up in the Air
Prediction Comparisons
Wesley & Tripp were correct in their predictions.
Precursor Predictions: Annie Awards & USC Scripter
Saturday, the Annie Awards and USC Scripter award winners will be announced. If they are available before I close the site down, I will post them. Otherwise, it may have to wait until after.
But, until then, I'm posting our contributor's fearless predictions for those awards. While my contemporaries are voting only on the Animated Feature category, I will make predictions in all of the other categories. We'll start with the Scripter and then finish with the Annie Awards. I'll list the nominees in each category and then bold the prediction with the name of the predictor to the side.
USC Scripter
Best Adapted Screnplay
Times, They Are A Changing
Starting late Saturday night, early Sunday morning, I will be transitioning this site to a new one. In order to do this, I will need to stop all updates to the site before the transition. My intention is to keep your login info and settings the same in the transition, but I make no promises.
If all goes smoothly, it will be back up and operational later in the day on Sunday. If not, I don't know. Thankfully, we've got a nice lull between the Oscar nominations and anything of significant importance (the Annie Awards and the USC Scripter award are it for the next week). Hopefully you like what I will be doing with everything.
When everything is said and done, for a short period of time, there will be an automatic re-direct, but you WILL need to change your bookmarks at that time or else they will stop working after that period. How things will be transferred after that time has no been decided.
Just giving everyone a heads up that while they may still be able to post after this time, their posts may get lost in the transition.
If you have any questions, please feel free to ask.
82nd Annual Academy Awards Nominations
Below are the nominations for the 82nd Annual Academy Awards as announced this morning by Academy president Tom Sherak and Oscar nominee Anne Hathaway. The winners will be announced on Sunday, March 7, 2010. The poster at the right is the official poster of the 82nd Academy Awards as announced yesterday.
Nominations Tallies
(9) Avatar; The Hurt Locker
(8) Inglourious Basterds
(6) Precious; Up in the Air
(5) Up
(4) District 9; Nine; Star Trek
(3) Crazy Heart; An Education; The Princess and the Frog; The Young Victoria
The Nominations
Best Picture
Avatar
The Blind Side
District 9
An Education
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Precious
A Serious Man
Up
Up in the Air
And the Continuation Goes to...
The DVD Report #141: February 2, 2010
One of the year’s most eagerly anticipated films, Mira Nair’s Amelia turned out to be one of the year’s biggest disappointments.
On a technical level, the film looks great. The period detail of the period from 1928 to 1937 is letter perfect and the recreation of the planes flown by Amelia Earhart are stunning, but the long, dull screenplay saps the film of its energy.
Hilary Swank is probably incapable of giving a bad performance and her incarnation of the aviatrix, the most famous woman of her time, fully captures the legend. Her look, walk and speech all convey the real Amelia, but it’s all surface acting. We never get to know what the character is really thinking.
Entirely too much screen time is given to Richard Gere, who sleepwalks through his co-starring role as Amelia’s husband, publisher George Putnam. Far better are Ewan McGregor as flight instructor Gene Vidal (Gore’s father) and Christopher Eccleston as Fred Noonan, the navigator who went missing with Amelia in her plane over the Pacific.
Reminder: Oscar Nominations
Tomorrow morning, the 82nd Annual Academy Awards nominations will be announced. You can find a list of the live categories and an alphabetical list here:
I'll be posting the nominees as quickly as I can in a separate post I'll start in the morning for you to follow along.
7 Days to Oscar Morning: Day 7
If you've made it this far, you'll recognize that there's only one category left. Well, for those who are actually counting, there are two. Best Picture is what we'll be discussing today. The Live Action Short Film category has not had an official list released by the Academy, so we won't be covering it this year, perhaps next year. But, for now, Best Picture is what you get.
For those of you who don't know, tomorrow morning, around 5:35a PST (6:30a MST, 7:30a CST, 8:30a EST), the Academy will announce its 82nd Annual Academy Awards Nominations. Only ten categories will be announced live, but 24 will be in competition. If you haven't already printed out your tracking sheet or checked out the Oscar Morning primer I put together, do so at this link: Oscar Morning.
7 Days to Oscar Morning: Day 6
Only two days left until the grand announcement of the 82nd nominations for the Academy Awards. They'll air live on Tuesday morning, February 2, 2010. In our penultimate day of coverage, we explore the Best Actor and Best Actress categories and the Best Editing and Best Cinematography categories. Which leaves the most important category for tomorrow: Best Picture.
Best Actor
Jeff Bridges - Crazy Heart (Unanimous)
George Clooney - Up in the Air (Unanimous)
Colin Firth - A Single Man (Unanimous)
Morgan Freeman - Invictus (Unanimous)
Jeremy Renner - The Hurt Locker (Unanimous)
Note: Fourth of only four categories we are in complete agreement on.
And the Continuation Goes to...
Precursors
Predictions
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OFTA
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Contributors
Opening This Week
- Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief (W) OT
- Valentine's Day (W) O
- The Wolfman (W) OT
- My Name Is Khan (L)
- Guide:
- W - Wide
- L - Limited
- N - New York and/or L.A.
- O - Oscar Contender (films that compete in all major categories)
- OT - Oscar Contender - Techs (films that compete in tech categories only)
Weekend Box Office
February 5-7, 2010
| 1. | Dear John | ||
| $30.5M | (Total: $30.5M) | ||
| 2. | Avatar O | ||
| $22.9M | (Total: $629.3M) | ||
| 3. | From Paris with Love | ||
| $8.2M | (Total: $8.2M) | ||
| 4. | Edge of Darkness | ||
| $6.9M | (Total: $28.9M) | ||
| 5. | The Tooth Fairy | ||
| $6.6M | (Total: $34.5M) | ||
| 6. | When in Rome | ||
| $5.5M | (Total: $20.9M) | ||
| 7. | The Book of Eli | ||
| $4.7M | (Total: $82.0M) | ||
| 8. | Crazy Heart O | ||
| $3.6M | (Total: $11.1M) | ||
| 9. | Legion | ||
| $3.5M | (Total: $34.7M) | ||
| 10. | Sherlock Holmes OT | ||
| $2.5M | (Total: $201.5M) | ||
Polls
What do you enjoy most about the Academy Awards (select up to three)
- The Awards (100%, 2 Votes)
- The Nominations (50%, 1 Votes)
- The Red Carpet Arrivals (50%, 1 Votes)
- The Host and Presenters (50%, 1 Votes)
- The Precursors (50%, 1 Votes)
- The Fashion (0%, 0 Votes)
- The Pre-Show (0%, 0 Votes)
- None of the Above (0%, 0 Votes)
Total Voters: 2
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