Senti-meter - Data Desk - The Envelope. Check out the vox pop on your favorite (and least favorite) stars and films ahead of the 84th Academy Awards.
Is Tinseltown in tune with, or out of touch with, movie fans? Credits: Armand Emamdjomeh, Stephanie Ferrell, Julie Makinen, Paul Olund, Anthony Pesce, Ken Schwencke and Ben Welsh. Interactive graphic by Thomas Suh Lauder Demián Bichir 848 tweets Sample tweets: RT @altfilmguide: "you gave a voice to the voiceless" Natalie Portman on Demian Bichir/A BETTER LIFE. My highlights were Octavia spencer winning, circus de sole act, and Demian Bichir being nominated... Demian Bichir got snubbed! George Clooney 2,474 tweets The Descendants and George Clooney are still the best in my mind. Not impressed at the fact George Clooney didn't win Best Actor Nothing against George Clooney - except his fame, wealth and good looks - but glad the Oscars showed you can't buy a statue with ads in NYT. Matt Damon 172 tweets Leonardo DiCaprio 176 tweets Jean Dujardin 9,708 tweets Michael Fassbender.
Oscar Myth Busting: nude Best Actress? Image Credit: Everett Collection Put down those Pop Rocks and Diet Cokes.
We’ve got some A-list myths to examine! Ahead of this Sunday’s Oscars, we’ll be taking a look at some of the most famous myths to rise out of the annual awards ceremony. Want to know if being nude will get you a Best Actress statue? Or if the Best Supporting Actress trophy is indeed a curse? Oscar Myth: Will showing breast assets win a performer Best Actress? What Is It? GET MORE EW: Subscribe to the magazine for only 33¢ an issue! Origin of the Myth: It may have begun all the way back in 1939, when Vivien Leigh won the Best Actress prize for Gone With the Wind, a film which celebrity nudity watchdog Mr. When It’s Come True: 9/25.
When It Hasn’t Come True: 11/25. So, Is It True? But here’s a fun fact: In the last 24 years, there were 22 women who won the Best Actress prize, and of those 22, 21 had been nude at one time or another on screen! Filmmakers, Film Industry, Film Festivals, Awards & Movie Reviews. Image courtesy of AMPAS.
Indiewire will provide regular updates of our predictions for the 84th Academy Awards, which will be announced live in Los Angeles on February 26, 2012. Also check out our poll of blogger and critics as to who will and should win, as well as a personal rant on why this year's award season was a major disappointment. Martin Scorsese's "Hugo" and Michel Hazanavicius's "The Artist" led the nominations with 11 and 10 mentions, respectively. They were both nominated for best picture, alongside "The Descendants," "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close," "The Help," "Midnight in Paris," "Moneyball," "The Tree of Life" and "War Horse. " "The Artist" certainly seems like the film to beat at this point, and in general most categories seem pretty sewn up.
Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill in "Moneyball. " The top 25 must-see movies of 2012. Update: You can now find out list of the top 25 must-see movies of 2013 here.And our 25 must-see movies of 2014 are here.
As 2011 draws to a close, one eye is inevitably on the treats that are lying ahead for 2012. With that in mind, we've got our line-up of, as things stands, the 25 films that are brightest on our radar. Now, a couple of disclaimers. George Clooney, Descendants Top 10 Oscar Picks for 2012. As the film critics associations roll out their lists of favorites this year, the 2012 Oscar race is officially heating up. Not that the critics groups are a "reliable bellwether" for which way the Academy will go, says New York Times film critic A.O. Scott.