The Best Supporting Actor Oscar is among the most prestigious Academy Awards. And this evening, Christian Bale won one of the greatest honors in the motion picture industry for his fine performance in The Fighter. The other contenders for the distinction were: * John Hawkes in “Winter’s Bone” * Jeremy Renner in “The Town” * […]
In a Better World won the Best Foreign Language Oscar, becoming the third movie from Denmark to win the prestigious award. Other Nominees: * “Biutiful” Mexico * “Dogtooth” Greece * “Incendies” Canada * “Outside the Law (Hors-la-loi)” Algeria We’re sad Biutiful failed to make it.
Yippee, David Seidler has snagged the Best Original Screenplay Oscar this evening for The King’s Speech. And what a movie that was! Folks, if you haven’t watched The King’s Speech, all we can say is y’all are dumber than we think or should it be thought. Other nominees this year: * “Another Year” Written by […]
Aaron Sorkin won the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for Social Network tonight. The other nominees: * “127 Hours” Screenplay by Danny Boyle & Simon Beaufoy * “Toy Story 3” Screenplay by Michael Arndt; Story by John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich * “True Grit” Written for the screen by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen […]
Y’all schmucks know how much we loved Jennifer Lawrence in Winter’s Bone. We’re giving notice here and now that should Jennifer go home tonight without the Oscar statuette, there will be blood on the floor. Here’s what the brilliant SI wrote in the review of Winter’s Bone: Jennifer Lawrence is a fine actress, and mark […]
Hooray, Melissa Leo won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar this evening for a great performance in The Fighter. This is Melissa’s first Academy Award. She was nominated two years back for Frozen River, a movie we enjoyed immensely. Kirk Douglas presented the award to Melissa. And the other nominees were: * Amy Adams in “The […]