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…
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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…
Read more →2011 Oscar Nominations! Movie Irv Reviews Snubs & Surprises
How did you fare with your first round of Academy Awards predictions? If you check out 2011 Oscars! Academy Awards Predictions by Movie Irv, you’ll see our resident cinema guru did pretty well. Now, let’s check in with Irv as…
Read more →Movie Irv Reviews: 2011 Oscar Nominations Predictions
UPDATED: with notes from the Golden Globe Awards! (If you already made a note of Irv’s picks back in November, now’s the time to check back in, see how his guesses are shaping up, and narrow down your own predictions.)…
Read more →When the Best Picture Isn’t the “Best Picture”
Over the last six weeks or so MovieFanFare ran a trio of Academy Award-related polls–on non award-winning foreign films, films that failed to receive a Best Picture nomination, and Best Picture losers that may have deserved the award over the eventual winners–that…
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