By Scott Feinberg
The Hollywood Reporter
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For prognosticators like me, the 85th Annual Academy Awards was a scary affair. The outcomes of so many of the major categories were up in the air. I was literally on the edge of my seat — on the far right side of the first mezzanine at the Dolby Theatre – as each category was announced.
By Scott Feinberg
The Hollywood Reporter
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With final ballots for the 85th Annual Academy Awards due back toPricewaterhouseCoopers via snail mail, hand delivery or e-vote by 5 p.m. Tuesday, and the Oscars ceremony itself set to take place in Hollywood on Sunday, the holiday weekend offered anxious studios their last opportunity to get their nominees in front of straggling voters and/or to tear down their competitors. Like so many of the weekends leading up to it, it was jam-packed with awards shows and screenings, each of which attracted some of Hollywood’s biggest names to appear in front of hundreds of its smallest — some of whom also get to vote for the Oscars — each using the other for their own purposes. Such is the awards season. (Of course, we’ll never know whether any of this actually impacted the results.)
By Scott Feinberg
The Hollywood Reporter
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The Hollywood Reporter has released the eighth installment of its weekly web series The Hollywood Reporters. In each episode, THR awards analyst Scott Feinberg, the series’ host, chats with colleagues from THR‘s newsroom about different aspects of the awards race. This week, Feinberg was joined by music editor Shirley Halperin for a discussion about this year’s nominees for the best original song Oscar.
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By Scott Feinberg
The Hollywood Reporter
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During The Hollywood Reporter’s recent Nominees Night at Spago, I pulled aside Argo director/producer/star Ben Affleck — a best picture (if not best director) Oscar nominee this year and winner of the DGA, Critics’ Choice, and Golden Globe awards for best director — for a brief chat about his amazing journey with the film. Thus far, it has taken him from the film’s world premiere at last September’s Telluride Film Festival to the Oscar nominees luncheon last Monday, with many other memorable stops in-between. The 40-year-old husband of Jennifer Garner and father of three young children calls it “one of the most meaningful experiences of my whole life” and says he is savoring every minute of it because it is “probably a once in a lifetime experience for me.” (Check out the video at the top of this post for the full conversation.)
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By Hollywood News Team
Hollywood News
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Academy Award winners Renée Zellweger and Catherine Zeta-Jones will join their Chicago castmates Richard Gere and Queen Latifah to present together on-stage at the Oscars, show producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron announced today.
“We are very excited to reunite the stars of Chicago to present on the Oscars, on the 10th anniversary of the movie’s win for Best Picture,” said Craig Zadan and Neil Meron.
By Scott Feinberg
The Hollywood Reporter
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Every week through the Oscars on Feb. 24, The Hollywood Reporter’s awards analyst Scott Feinberg will release a new “Feinberg Forecast,” a post in which he recaps the most noteworthy awards-related news of the past week and shares his latest assessment of the standings in each of the major awards categories. (For more information about Feinberg and how he arrives at his projections, as well as a key for the various colors and acronyms that appear throughout them, scroll to the bottom of this post.)
By Scott Feinberg
The Hollywood Reporter
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If the movie you’re supporting for the best picture Oscar is not named Argo, it’s officially time to start panicking.
By Scott Feinberg
The Hollywood Reporter
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Every week through the Oscars on Feb. 24, The Hollywood Reporter’s awards analyst Scott Feinberg will release a new “Feinberg Forecast,” a post in which he recaps the most noteworthy awards-related news of the past week and shares his latest assessment of the standings in each of the major awards categories. (For more information about Feinberg and how he arrives at his projections, as well as a key for the various colors and acronyms that appear throughout them, scroll to the bottom of this post.)
By Joey Magidson
Hollywood News/Film Contributor
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For those who don’t follow or don’t remember, in Best Picture I’ll be looking at essentially what the next 10 films could have been for the Academy. It’s partially just for fun (and keep in mind…this isn’t how I would have preferred things to have gone, or else the lists below would be quite different), but I’ve always felt that it also shines an interesting light on what the Oscar nominations could have looked like…for better or worse. Some of these choices are rather obvious, while others are just guesses. Either way, this is nothing if not a good conversation starter, so be sure to let me know what you think the Alternate nominations would have been like. For now though, let’s get started and see what the next level down of Oscar nominees would look like!
By Vitale Morum
Hollywood News
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Fox Searchlight Pictures Presidents Stephen Gilula and Nancy Utley announced today that the company will re-release director Benh Zeitlin’s Academy-Award nominated film Beasts of the Southern Wild in select cities for a special return engagement on Friday, Jan. 18.
Nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Director, the film’s return to theatres marks the one-year anniversary of its triumphant debut in Park City, UT at last year’s Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Grand Jury Prize and Excellence in Cinematography Award.