Here are some hints for you.....
* Odds over the last 20 years that the film with the most Oscar nominations has won Best Picture: 9 out of 10
* Odds in the last 10 years that a film winning a Best Picture Oscar won at least two of the three guild awards (Writers Guild, Producers Guild, Directors Guild) for which it was eligible: 4 in 5
* Odds in the last 20 years that the Directors Guild of America winner directed the Best Picture Oscar winner: 3 in 4
* Odds in the last 20 years that the Best Picture winner will also receive the Best Director award: 3 in 4
* Odds in the last 20 years that the Best Picture winner will also receive the Best Actor award: 1 in 4
* Odds in the last 20 years that the Best Picture winner will also receive the Best Actress award: 1 in 5
* Odds, in the last 20 years, that the Best Picture winner will have no acting nominations whatsoever: 3 in 20
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Saturday, February 16, 2008
Thursday, December 13, 2007
The Noms for the Golden Globes
http://videotoronto.citytv.com/?fr_story=e19f82e58e55965fa6fa735a84fbc94fe6940316&rf=bm
So today kicks off award season you can click HERE to find out more about who was nominated. or check out this link.
http://videotoronto.citytv.com/?fr_story=e19f82e58e55965fa6fa735a84fbc94fe6940316&rf=bm
So today kicks off award season you can click HERE to find out more about who was nominated. or check out this link.
Thursday, November 1, 2007
American Gangster an Oscar shoo-in
By Mina Hochberg | amNewYork Movie Critic
November 2, 2007
Remember the theme song to "American Gangster" because you'll probably be hearing it a lot at the Oscars next year. Ridley Scott's spellbinding epic is one of the most noteworthy movies to come out of the big studios this year. Set in the early 1970s, the film chronicles the legendary rise of real-life Harlem drugpin Frank Lucas, whose maximum-strength heroin, called Blue Magic, proliferated the streets with twice the potency at half the price.
Inspired by a New York magazine profile of Lucas in 2000, "Gangster" is not so much about drug culture as it is about the making of a fierce American entrepreneur. Lucas, who worked for years as the "driver" for a crime boss, used his go-getter initiative to travel to Vietnam in the middle of the war and personally broker a deal to import pure heroin via military transport. By cutting out the middle man, he crafted a business plan that landed him a gold mine.
Denzel Washington inhabits Lucas with the kind of uncanny ease that wins awards. Lucas is mild-mannered and unassuming -- well, except for the occasional outburst where he shoots a guy in the forehead in broad daylight or smashes another guy's head in with a piano lid at a party. He wears tasteful suits and takes his mother to church. He lives by principles -- principles that allow for maiming and killing, but principles nonetheless.
November 2, 2007
Remember the theme song to "American Gangster" because you'll probably be hearing it a lot at the Oscars next year. Ridley Scott's spellbinding epic is one of the most noteworthy movies to come out of the big studios this year. Set in the early 1970s, the film chronicles the legendary rise of real-life Harlem drugpin Frank Lucas, whose maximum-strength heroin, called Blue Magic, proliferated the streets with twice the potency at half the price.
Inspired by a New York magazine profile of Lucas in 2000, "Gangster" is not so much about drug culture as it is about the making of a fierce American entrepreneur. Lucas, who worked for years as the "driver" for a crime boss, used his go-getter initiative to travel to Vietnam in the middle of the war and personally broker a deal to import pure heroin via military transport. By cutting out the middle man, he crafted a business plan that landed him a gold mine.
Denzel Washington inhabits Lucas with the kind of uncanny ease that wins awards. Lucas is mild-mannered and unassuming -- well, except for the occasional outburst where he shoots a guy in the forehead in broad daylight or smashes another guy's head in with a piano lid at a party. He wears tasteful suits and takes his mother to church. He lives by principles -- principles that allow for maiming and killing, but principles nonetheless.
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