With a little over a week to go before the official deadline -- though there are always a couple of stragglers and switches afterwards -- submissions for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar are now flooding in faster...
I was very impressed with the level of confidence exuded in Stephen Chbosky's "The Perks of Being a Wallflower." We've spoken to the writer/director about the film, praised Logan Lerman's...
A handful of releases this week so we'll start with Robert Lorenz's "Trouble with the Curve." I'm quite the fan, and as you heard in Friday's Oscar Talk podcast, Anne is, too. I still wonder how th...
After popping up in the last few seconds of "The Avengers," it was clear that the intergalactic villain Thanos would return to wreak havoc on the heroes of the Marvel universe in the studio's planned Phase T...
Not to be outdone the day after Fox Searchlight dropped "Hitchcock" on the season, Focus Features would like to remind everyone of its own last-minute addition: Gus Van Sant's "Promised Land." The ...
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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...
Unless I'm very much mistaken, this might qualify as the first official longlist of the awards season. (Don't get too excited -- you might not have any energy left by January.) The nominations for the European Film Aw...
Well, I pretty much nailed this likelihood in a tweet on Tuesday. With very little left to choose from in the way of North American premieres, what with NYFF really diving in big this year on that front and ...
There is no press release planned for this news but I wanted to pass it along to our readership in any case. After seven years of owning and operating In Contention, first as a blogspot thingamajig, then guiding the ....
Last year, Oscar analyst par excellence Mark Harris, whose insights we'll be missing this awards season, wrote a description of the average Best Foreign Language Film voter that was so specifically accurate that all I...
