Our own Movie Irv has a knack for correctly naming each year’s Oscar nominees long before they’re announced. Want to know what movies and what performers are (very likely) going to be up for the awards? Check out Irv’s first set…
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The Artist Wins Best Picture: Your Thoughts
Movie Fans, Your thoughts on the first time in 83 years that a silent film has won the Best Picture Oscar. Add The Artist to your DVD movie collection, pre-order today.
Read more →Best Actress Snubs Over the Years
Who says that there’s only strong competition–and controversy–in the Best Actor category of the Academy Awards? Author Irv Slifkin points out some issues over the history of the Best Actress category; there’ve certainly been some wins over the years worth debating.
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Where Oscar goes, controversy follows. MovieFanFare has looked at Best Picture Academy Award winners that perhaps shouldn’t have taken home the big prize. Now Irv Slifkin’s taking a glance at some of the miscues that may have occurred in the Best Actor category.
Read more →What’s the Best “Best Picture” Winner from the 1960s?
From dancing gang members and singing nuns to race relations in the South and New York street hustlers, the Best Picture winners of the 1960s had it all. Vote for which of the 10 Academy Award-winning films is your favorite.
Read more →Surprise! 2012 Oscar Predictions
What’s that everybody always says about the Oscars being predictable? Well, maybe we’re just blowing that up this year. Who could have guessed that producer Brett Ratner (he of the Rush Hour films and the less-than-revered third X-Men movie) would…
Read more →The Perfect Oscar Host(s)
By the time you read this, Billy Crystal fans everywhere (and I count myself among them) will have had a chance to decompress and begin re-inflating their hopes that one year in the future his price will finally be met…
Read more →Oscar Oddities: A Look at Strange Academy Award Nominations
There are some Oscar nominations that all movie fans can agree on, some that cause constant debate, and some so off-the-wall you have to wonder what the voters were smoking! Read on to see how a man in a gorilla suit can be called a “special effect.”
Read more →Movie Irv Reviews Your Oscar Pool
The time has arrived! Grab your Oscar ballots and listen to the insights Movie Irv and his two expert guests bring to the table. Will The King’s Speech manage a royal sweep? Will enough “friends” declare their “like” of The Social…
Read more →The Key to Best Picture Success? Location, Location, Location.
There’s about a fortnight or so to go until the pinnacle of Hollywood’s seemingly unending self-congratulatory season, the Academy Awards, takes place. And, according to many film critics and Las Vegas odds makers who actually do take bets on this sort…
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