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On TV, the Oscars are more gray than gold
Sunday's Academy Awards will feature many of Hollywood's shiniest stars, including Barbra Streisand, the cast of "The Avengers" and comic Seth MacFarlane. They'll be celebrating a slate of nine best picture nominees that includes six $100-million...
Tags: Voting, The Middle (tv program), Ted (movie), Music, Beasts of the Southern Wild (movie)
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Oscar predictions 2013: We call the four acting races
Gold Standard writer Glenn Whipp is sweeping through all 24 Oscar categories this week, assessing the races, predicting the winners and helping you prevail in your Oscar pools. Earlier he looked at the short films, sound categories, visual crafts races,...
Tags: Robert De Niro, The Fugitive (movie), Tommy Lee Jones, Jennifer Lawrence, Beasts of the Southern Wild (movie)
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Overlooked screenplays this Oscar season
In 1945 Raymond Chandler wrote a screed against Hollywood, and Hollywood screenwriting, for the Atlantic Monthly. "An industry with such vast resources and such magic techniques should not become dull so soon," said the man who later characterized his...
Tags: Flight (movie), Chicago Tribune, World War II (1939-1945), Wreck-It Ralph (movie), John Gatins
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Quiz: The money behind Oscar 2013 nominees
Academy Awards nominations and Oscar statues can provide a big boost at the box office. Some films benefit enormously. The domestic box-office take for 2009 best picture winner "Slumdog Millionaire" jumped to $141.3 million from $98.3 million after...
Tags: NCIS: Los Angeles (tv program), Life of Pi (movie), Beasts of the Southern Wild (movie), Amour (movie), Silver Linings Playbook (movie)
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Hollywood's outsiders come inside
It's been nearly a generation since Quentin Tarantino burst on the scene with his raucous indie film "Pulp Fiction" in 1994, and Hollywood is a very different place. The once-vibrant independent film scene that Tarantino helped shape has shrunk to a...
Tags: Life of Pi (movie), Beasts of the Southern Wild (movie), Silver Linings Playbook (movie), Unrest, Conflicts and War, David O. Russell
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Oscar predictions: Vegas lays odds, and the best bet goes to ...
Are you feeling certain, like most, that Daniel Day-Lewis is going to win the lead actor Oscar on Sunday for his title turn in "Lincoln"? If you want to put some money behind that belief, you can, but, given his sure-shot status, you'd better be...Tags: Life of Pi (movie), Beasts of the Southern Wild (movie), Amour (movie), Lincoln (movie, 2012), Golden Globe Awards
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Oscars 2013: Here's what to look for on Oscar night [video chat]
With the 85th Academy Awards set for Sunday night, the question on many's minds is whether "Argo," Ben Affleck's drama set amid the Iranian hostage crisis, will cap off its awards season run with a best picture win. But there are many other things to...
Tags: Christopher Plummer, Ted (movie), Life of Pi (movie), Beasts of the Southern Wild (movie), Amour (movie)
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Dining guide: Oscars 2013 viewing parties and specials
Watch the Oscars on your couch again this year, or get out for some Champagne and oysters, or chips and guacamole, or a three-course dinner with wagyu beef and Dover sole? If you're thinking the latter, here are some options, including free pizza: ...
Tags: Recipes, Foods and Beverages, Lifestyle and Leisure, Pizzas, Entertainment
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Connecticut's Oscar Favorites From Those In The Know
The Hartford CourantThe Academy Awards bring out the critic in everyone. It starts when the nominations are announced — "Whaddya mean, Ben Affleck wasn't nominated?" — and lasts long after Oscar night. That annual ritual takes place Sunday night and will be...Tags: Robert De Niro, Tommy Lee Jones, Jennifer Lawrence, Beasts of the Southern Wild (movie), Lincoln (movie, 2012)
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The Oscars show, nominated films shortchanged in China
BEIJING — Cecilia Wu, 18, is a self-described film freak. Despite the heavy workload of her senior year of high school here in the Chinese capital, she sees a movie every two or three days and has caught most of the films with Academy Award...Tags: Censorship, China, Life of Pi (movie), August (movie), DVDs
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'Django Unchained' is Tarantino, undisciplined ★★
In "Django Unchained," which has its moments of devilish glee in and among dubious wallows in numbing slaughter, writer-director-trash compactor Quentin Tarantino delivers a mashup of several hundred of his favorite movies, all hanging, like barnacles,...
Tags: Ku Klux Klan, Slavery, Kerry Washington, Russ Tamblyn, Leonardo DiCaprio
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Oscars 2013: 'Argo' generates most heat, but can 'Lincoln' catch it?
With the Oscars finally upon us Sunday, it's do-or-die for the movies ranked in the L.A. Times Data Desk's HeatMeter, which tallies points at events throughout the season to gauge the overall traction of people and films. With Ben Affleck's "Argo"...
Tags: Moonrise Kingdom (movie), Voting, Life of Pi (movie), Beasts of the Southern Wild (movie), Lincoln (movie, 2012)
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