The biggest losers at Sunday night's Academy Awards telecast? It's gotta be a tie between "Dreamgirls" and the makers of Sominex. The Academy didn't have too much use for the former, and the worldwide television audience watching the snooze-inducing 4-hour telecast didn't have any need for the latter. In ...
Best Picture The nominees are: "Babel," "The Departed," "Letters From Iwo Jima," "Little Miss Sunshine" and "The Queen." What Will Win: Who knows? "The Queen" will receive its due in the Best Actress race, as its nomination here is doomed just as with similar biographical movies like "Ray" and "Capote." ...
The 78th Annual Academy Awards are March 5, and it's up to me to tell you who's gonna win. I've been on a roll as of late, so I may "Hustle & Flow" through these, or I could "Crash!" Either way, here goes my annual college try: Best Picture The nominees are: Brokeback Mountain, Capote, Crash, Good ...
The 77th Annual Academy Awards are Feb. 27, and after going 96 percent last year, I hesitate to even try to predict this year's outcomes. No way am I gonna top myself. But here goes my annual college try: BEST PICTURE In the Race: The Aviator Million Dollar Baby Sideways Nominee I'd Vote For: Million ...
-Danny Linton reviewed movies for The Daily Helmsman from 1993-1998. He now teaches film at The U of M. Is this finally director Martin Scorsese's year? After being snubbed by Academy voters for such classics as Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and GoodFellas and more recent films like The Age of Innocence ...
Schizophrenics, hobbits and can-can dancers dominated the nominations for the 74th annual Academy Awards announced in Hollywood Tuesday. The epic fantasy The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring nabbed a near-record 13 nods, including Best Picture. Fellowship is the first film in the trilogy ...
1 Moulin Rouge The best musical in at least 30 years reinvigorated a dead genre and, in turn, a whole year of movie-going as Baz Luhrmannís’ Moulin Rouge held the energy of at least three movies. Combining a classic tale of the doomed love affair between a poet and courtesan in 19th century France ...
