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 published: 2013-02-08Oscar Eye: Where Does The Race Stand As Academy Award Voting Begins? A full four weeks after the nominees were announced, the ballots for this year's Academy Awards have finally gone out to voting members-- which means we can finally stop speculating about what might happen and start looking forward to what will. A lot has happened in the meantime, and most of it has been about Ben Affleck winning various awards  filed under: oscar eye
 published: 2013-01-15Oscar Eye: 5 Potential Surprises We'll Be Talking About Until Oscar Night With almost a week gone by since the 2013 Oscar nominations were announced, we've had some time to process them-- but more likely, we've been distracted by the glitzy Critics Choice and Golden Globe awards and focused on those instead. Awards season is a chaotic time filed under: oscar eye
 published: 2013-01-09Oscar Eye: Predicting The 2013 Oscar Nominations Gulp. It's time. Time to actually lay my cards down on the table, stop the hedging and the "some believe" and "in my opinion" and actually make some gosh-darned Oscar predictions. I have to admit from the very top that I know it's dumb to attempt to predict Oscar nominees in any year, and that goes double for this year filed under: oscar eye
 published: 2013-01-02Oscar Eye: 5 Reasons To Feel Optimistic About This Year's Awards Race In just over a week the Oscar nominations will be announced, beginning what will actually be the most exhausting period of the season; with all the nominees known but six excruciating weeks left to wait until the ceremony, what exactly are we supposed to talk about in that time? Luckily for now, there's still a world of possibilities filed under: oscar eye
 published: 2012-12-13Oscar Eye: How The Golden Globe, SAG And The Critics Have Affected The Race There's been a ton going on in the world of awards this week, as groups from my own tiny little New York Film Critics Online to the Golden Globes have weighed in on what they consider the best films of the year, whether in the form of actual awards or just nominations. It's enough to drive you crazy, especially if like me you're constantly trying to get a read on the awards race as a whole, figuring out if this or that snub actually means anything filed under: oscar eye
 published: 2012-12-05Oscar Eye: Did Zero Dark Thirty Just Become The Frontrunner? Yesterday I was doing interviews for Zero Dark Thirty as the winners of the New York Film Critics Circle were being announced, and everyone was watching closely. Sony publicists and journalists like myself were obviously able to refresh our phones constantly, but even the talent knew exactly the score filed under: oscar eye
 published: 2012-11-27Oscar Eye: Zero Dark Thirty And Les Miserables Change The Conversation It's exciting when even one movie manages to change the conversation, but it's downright thrilling when two do it. That's what happened just after the Thanksgiving holiday ended, as both Les Miserables and Zero Dark Thirty premiered for critics in New York and Los Angeles, and both earned enough raves to become serious contenders not just for awards filed under: oscar eye
 published: 2012-11-20Oscar Eye: Life Of Pi And Silver Linings Playbook Make Their Case For Best Picture If your Thanksgiving is going anything like mine, you're realizing with a mix of excitement and dread that the movie year is almost over, and there's a lot left to catch up on. Without even digging into movies that are on DVD, there are a ton of films out in theaters right now or on VOD that at least deserve awards consideration filed under: oscar eye
 published: 2012-11-13Oscar Eye: Lincoln Holds Strong, Jennifer Lawrence Moves Up, And More Developments Between Election Day and a nasty fever that suddenly took over my life, I didn't have it in me last Tuesday-- and I got the feeling you guys had other things on your mind as well. Plus, what we're talking about this week is the same thing we would have been talking about last week: Lincoln and Skyfall, and the handful of mysteries still waiting for us down the line filed under: oscar eye
 published: 2012-10-30Oscar Eye: Is Flight A Contender Beyond Denzel Washington? This week there's so, so much going on that has absolutely nothing to do with the Oscar race, and it seems almost crazy to bring it up. There's the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, of course, which I'm witnessing in my own small way here in Brooklyn (though with power and running water and no damage to my friends or home, I'm exceptionally lucky) filed under: oscar eye
 published: 2012-10-23Oscar Eye: Box Office Matters, But The Avengers Still Won't Be Nominated For Best Picture Superhero movies remain the spot where the "box office success + critical raves = Oscars" formula falls apart. The Academy is still feeling some of the backlash from their snub of The Dark Knight in 2008, which many believe led them to open up the Best Picture category to 10 nominees (now a sliding scale of 5-10, depending on how many votes they get) and probably helped Inception get a nod two years later filed under: oscar eye
 published: 2012-10-16Oscar Eye: Why Can't Skyfall Be The First Bond Film With A Best Picture Nomination? I was genuinely surprised on Saturday when I caught the new James Bond film Skyfall and saw what I honestly believe could be an Oscar nominee. No Bond movie has has ever been nominated for Best Picture, and I'm not naive enough to assume that Skyfall can be the one to break the trend. But I think they should at least try filed under: oscar eye
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