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Oscar Nominations Post-Mortem: How Did We Do?

January 22, 2009 Bill Gatevackes

Earlier this week, we here at FilmBuffOnline handicapped the Oscar race as we saw it. As we all know, the nominations have just been released. How did we do? Well, let’s find out. And the [click for more]

BENJAMIN BUTTON, SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE and MILK Lead 81st Annual Academy Awards Nominations

January 22, 2009 Rich Drees

The romantic fantasy The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, the India-set drama Slumdog Millionaire and the biopic Milk lead the crop of this year’s nominations for the Academy Awards. With nominations for Best Directing for [click for more]

Oscar Nominations: Who Will Make The Cut?

January 20, 2009 Bill Gatevackes

It’s that time of year again. This Thursday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will announce the nominees for the 81st Annual Academy Awards. Every year there are snubs and surprises, thrills and [click for more]

Academy Announces 9 Foreign Language Oscar Hopefuls

January 13, 2009 Rich Drees

And then there were nine. From the 65 eligible films submitted to the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences for consideration for this year’s Best Foreign Language Feature Academy Award, nine films have been [click for more]

Superheroes Dominate Films On Visual Effects Shortlist

January 6, 2009 Rich Drees

For better (The Dark Knight) and worse (The Spirit), 2008 has been a pretty newsworthy year for comic book adaptations at the box office. That trend continues as three of the seven films on the [click for more]

Writer Donald Westlake Has Died

January 2, 2009 Rich Drees

Donald Westlake, the mystery writer who was nominated for an Academy Award for his screenplay for the 1990 John Cusack crime drama The Grifters, died New Year’s Eve while vacationing in Mexico. He was 75. [click for more]

HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 3 Leads List Of Original Song Oscar Hopefuls

December 17, 2008 Rich Drees

Not surprisingly, the Disney pre-teen musical hit High School Musical 3 leads the list of the 49 songs eligible for Oscar consideration. Eleven of the film’s tunes are up for consideration for the five slots [click for more]

Unsurprisingly, Genre Flicks Dominate Academy’s Visual FX Oscar Shortlist

December 14, 2008 Rich Drees

As is usual, science-fiction and fantasy genre films dominate the list of 15 films eligible for nomination for the 2008 Visual Effects Oscar. There’s some strong comeptition here, though a few films I suspect don’t [click for more]

Fifteen Documentaries On The Academy’s Short List

November 18, 2008 Rich Drees

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has released its shortlist of feature-length documentaries that are eligible for nomination for an Academy Award. They are, in alphabetical order- At the Death House Door The [click for more]

For Your Consideration: Studios Post Oscar Hopeful Screenplays

November 18, 2008 Rich Drees

It is no secret that in recent years, studios have embraced the internet as a way to promote their movies. (We’ll put aside the fact that they also excoriate the internet when information about their [click for more]