Welcome to Oscar Talk.
In case you're new to the site and/or the podcast, Oscar Talk is a weekly kudocast, your one-stop awards chat shop between yours truly and Anne Thompson of Thompson on Hollywood. The podcast is...
The news that J.J. Abrams is set to direct "Star Wars: Episode VII," a film fans only dreamed of less than six months ago, came something of a surprise. Abrams had publicly claimed he'd passed on the gig bec...
It was never a given that Abrams would return to helm a third "Star Trek" film, but when it was revealed the filmmakers considered the project a trilogy many believed he would. Clearly, it would be shockin...
PARK CITY - There's something alluringly, disconcertingly off-kilter from the get-go in "Ain't Them Bodies Saints," an imposing third feature from editor-turned-filmmaker David Lowery, and it's not merely th...
As one-half of an outlaw couple (the other half being Rooney Mara) in director David Lowery's "Ain't Them Bodies Saints," Casey Affleck takes on yet another criminal role following turns in such relativ...
The Oscar nominations are in and, predictably, there were shocks and surprises aplenty, with Ben Affleck and Kathryn Bigelow among this year's biggest snubs. However, there was lots of love for "Lincoln," &q...
The history of write-in votes -- which is to say, votes for a name not on the official list of nominees -- at the Academy Awards is a short but interesting one. In 1934, the fuss over Bette Davis's omission from the B...
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Lowdown: The plot synopsis of David Lowery's latest would be enough to draw my attention, but then he went and filled it out with a fascinating cast: Rooney Mara, Ca...
The last 100 hours or so in Hollywood has been intriguing, to say the least. The Oscar nominations on Thursday sent a series of shockwaves throughout the industry and were marvelously reflective of a tightly contended...
It was all smiles at the Warner Bros./In Style party Sunday night as team "Argo" had grabbed yet another one-two Best Picture/Best Director punch after the film's director Ben Affleck was unceremoniously snu...
