So the awards season has officially come to a close, and ‘The Hurt Locker’ comes out on top with six awards in total, including Best Picture and Best Director. Honestly, the results were no surprise, we’ve heard nothing but Hurt Locker buzz for the past few weeks. Though my personal opinion holds that I feel …
Every year here at LonelyReviewer.com, we try to see how close we can get to predicting the Oscars. In years past, each of the bloggers have done their own list. This year, we decided we’d pick and feature one. Ben and I have always gone back and forth on whose picks are better, who gets …
There has been a little bit of a controversy amongst some of my friends in regards to ‘District 9’ and its nomination for Best Picture. Although I’ll admit, the genre and class of film it was is not something that you ordinarily see up for such an award like Best Picture, but here I’ll try …
Early in LA Tuesday morning, a good deal of people were up to hear the 2010 nominations for the Academy Award. This is the first year of the Academy’s new ’10 best picture’ nominee concept. There is a lot of things to be excited about with this list of nominees, but a few things that …
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have announced the short list of movies up for possible nomination in the ‘best documentary’ category. The short list includes the following films: “The Beaches of Agnes” “Burma VJ” “The Cove” “Every Little Step” “Facing Ali” “Food Inc.” “Garbage Emergency” “The Most Dangerous Man in Africa” “Mugabe …
Hugh Jackman was good last year, but, judging by this afternoon’s announcement, this year will be better. Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin will co-host the 82nd Academy Awards in February. Martin, who hosted the Oscars by himself twice said in a press release, “I am happy to co-host the Oscars with my enemy, Alec Baldwin.” …
There is a debate going on right now about which is better out of the two front runners for Best Picture this year: The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button or Slumdog Millionaire. It could be construed as a very tough debate, but one has to understand that they are both such strikingly different films that …
It’s that time again, yes, Oscar® season. It’s Hollywood’s chance to congratulate each other on another great year, and celebrate the industry’s history. So here are my predictions for this Sunday in some of the major categories:
The Oscars come every year, and us folks on the sidelines always have something to say about them. Things like what was left off the list, what shouldn’t have made the list, what gives me the authority to do this? Well…I’m a blogger, isn’t that my job?
The interwebs are a buzz with the rumor that Oscar show-runners Laurence Mark and Bill Condon are tapping Ricky Gervais to host next years Academy Awards. A source tells Ew.com, “The buzz around town is that Ricky should host the Oscars.” I think Gervais is freakin’ hilarious, and seeing him host the Oscars would make …