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Why the Oscars Timetable Change Is Bad for Movies (Analysis)
By Scott Feinberg The Hollywood Reporter *** The Academy’s calendar changes that were announced on Tuesday — moving up the close of nomination voting from Jan. 13 to Jan. 3 and the noms announcement...
View ArticleA Chat with the Team Behind Switzerland’s Oscar Entry ‘Sister’ (Video)
By Scott Feinberg The Hollywood Reporter *** As I predicted earlier this week, a five-member jury in Switzerland has chosen, from a shortlist of five options, Ursula Meier‘s Sister (L’enfant d’en haut)...
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Austria and France Are Early Frontrunners for Foreign Language Oscar (Analysis)
By Scott Feinberg The Hollywood Reporter *** The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has just released the official list of entries that have qualified for consideration in the best foreign...
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Backstage at the 16th Hollywood Film Awards, First Awards Show of the Season
By Scott Feinberg The Hollywood Reporter *** As the 16th Hollywood Film Awards, the first awards show of the Oscar season, took place in the ballroom of the Beverly Hilton, this reporter was weaving...
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Aaron Sorkin Hosts ‘Promised Land’ Sneak Peek as Many Oscar Hopefuls Court...
By Scott Feinberg The Hollywood Reporter *** Oscar-winning screenwriter Aaron Sorkin hosted a special advance screening of Gus Van Sant‘s Promised Land on Saturday night at the SoHo House in Los...
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The SAG Awards Could Impact the Oscars More Than Ever This Year (Analysis)
By Scott Feinberg The Hollywood Reporter *** Voting to determine the nominees for the 19th Screen Actors Guild Awards will begin Wednesday and run through Dec. 10. The resulting nominations will be...
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‘Les Miserables’ Wows First Audience in New York, Clearly Headed for Oscars...
By Scott Feinberg The Hollywood Reporter *** Universal’s highly-anticipated awards hopeful Les Miserables, the first film directed by British filmmaker Tom Hooper since he won the best director Oscar...
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‘Zero Dark Thirty’ Finally Screens, Enters Thick of Crowded Oscar Race...
By Scott Feinberg The Hollywood Reporter *** Zero Dark Thirty, written by Mark Boal and directed by Kathryn Bigelow — who both won Oscars for their last film, 2009’s best picture winner The Hurt Locker...
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FEINBERG FORECAST: Updated Projections (With 13 Weeks Until the 85th Oscars)
By Scott Feinberg The Hollywood Reporter *** Every Sunday through the Oscars on Feb. 24, The Hollywood Reporter‘s awards analystScott Feinberg will release a new “Feinberg Forecast,” a post in which he...
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Getting to Know Two Extraordinary Members of the Academy Who Never Miss a Film
By Scott Feinberg The Hollywood Reporter Like every Oscar blogger, I get on the case of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences about things that I feel they’ve done wrong or could do better...
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