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Massachusetts got its props from the Academy Sunday night as The Fighter and The Social Network combined to win five Oscars. The big overall winner was The King's Speech with four Oscars. The film earned the Best Picture Oscar, and Colin Firth captured the best-actor statue. the directing prize for Tom Hooper won Best Director for The King's Speech, David Seidler got the original-screenplay Oscar. Natalie Portman was Best Actress for The Black Swan.
Chicagoist’s “Countdown to Rahmageddon” concluded with the election of Rahm Emanuel as Mayor. With Emanuel’s election, the epic “Mayor Emanuel” Twitter feed came to a glorious end, and they broke the feed down by the numbers. Massachusetts wandered into Wisconsin territory with a Unions vs. Tea Party rally on Wednesday at Beacon Hill. A Tea Partier said unions were "perverted," and Congressman Michael Capuano said people should get "a little bloody."
The glitz and glamour of America's film industry is on display tonight when the 83rd Annual Oscars take over the airwaves on ABC. In the 2011, Boston is generating buzz like never before with three movies set in, or near, Boston up for Academy Awards. The Globe's Wesley Morris expects Christian Bale and Melissa Leo to win Oscars for their supporting roles in The Fighter. He said The Fighter and David O. Russell should win for Best Picture and Best Director, but will lose out to The King's Speech and The Social Network's David Fincher, respectively.
The Institute of Contemporary Art will once again profile Academy Award-nominated short films. The 2011 nominated films will be presented in two shows, Animated Shorts and Live Action Shorts, from February 21 to March 6. Every film will be shown entirely so fans can evaluate the eventual Oscar-winning films. The 85-minute animated program features Madagascar, Carnet de Voyage, Let’s Pollute, The Gruffalo, The Lost Thing, Day & Night, URS, and The Cow That Wanted to Be a Hamburger and is open to anyone age 7 and up. The 160-minute live action program features The Confession, Wish 143, Na Wewe, The Crush, and God of Love. For more information, call 617-478-3103 or visit icaboston.org. Tickets are $10 and $8 for members, students, and seniors.
The Oscar nominations were announced today with some wicked good films garnering nominations. Boston-connected films were well represented today. The Fighter, Mark Wahlberg's film about Lowell boxer Micky Ward, got seven nominations, including one for best picture. The cast of The Fighter got three nominations as Christian Bale was nominated for the supporting actor Oscar for and the supporting-actress Oscar field includes Melissa Leo and Amy Adams. David O. Russell of The Fighter is one of the best director nominees.
Local boy made good Matt Damon might make really good this year: he's been nominated for two Golden Globes: one for best actor in a comedy for his role in The Informant, the other for best supporting actor for his role in Invictus. Damon won an Oscar and a Golden Globe for best screenplay for the Boston-based Good Will Hunting, for which he also got best actor nominations from both the Academy and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (which awards the Globes). He was previously nominated for a Golden Globe for his role in The Talented Mr. Ripley as well, but has no acting gold on his shelf yet. Will this year be Damon's chance to get gilded for his acting chops? Check the full list of Golden Globe nods here.
-- Not your typical Oscar review: Sophia Loren as Voltan, God of Fire. [Pax Arcana]
Maybe it was being in L.A. one night after the Oscars, so the magic of the stars could rub off on them (because when you think "glamour", you think Coen Brothers). Maybe it wasn't. Probably it had a lot to do with the injury-riddled, overmatched Clippers. But whatever the reason, the results speak for themselves: the C's blasted LA last night, and come home with a 2-game winning streak.
Oh, you know the Oscar drill already: Marion Cotillard surprised everyone by winning Best Actress for La Vie en Rose, further proving the rule that if you go ugly for a movie role, you will win. Poor Julie Christie just looked too beautiful. Otherwise, Tilda Swinton delivered the best speech for winning Best Supporting Actress for Michael Clayton. The men's races were yawners. Of course, Javier Bardem won Best Supporting Actor for No Country for Old Men, and Daniel Day-Lewis won Best Actor for There Will Be Blood. No Country for Old Men was picture of the year. LAist provides live-blogs and recaps.
Second only to the awards themselves, fashion is one of the main reasons why so many of us watch the Oscars. So along with everyone else out there with a blog and a voice, we’ve decided to give you our opinion on fashion last night. We’ll save you from our opinions on the winners and why Amy Ryan was robbed and stick to what we know. Fashion.
Call us crazy, but we're not as excited about the Oscars as we could be. We're happy the writers' strike is over, because we support writers as much as anyone (we're pretty writerly ourselves, y'know). Still, the fact that everyone's excited about ads, parties, and fashion (though we do like the Penelope Cruz pick) rather than films speaks to just how Hollywood our movie industry has become--and just how sad that is for the films themselves. So please excuse us if we seem a little grouchy this weekend.
">The Bucket List won this weekend's box office.
Today the final list of Webby nominees was released. According to the press release:
Hailed as the "Oscars of the Internet" by the New York Times, The Webby Awards is the leading international awards honoring Web sites, online film and video, interactive advertising, and mobile content. The Webby Awards is presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences, a 550-person judging academy...more ›
The Chlotrudis Awards kick off at 5:00 pm tomorrow, Sunday, March 18, at the Brattle Theatre. Tickets are only $20. How is that price for an awards show honoring movies that were better than most of what got nominated at the Oscars? Oscars, Schmoscars. Boston has the Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film, which is holding its awards ceremony Sunday, March 18th, at the Brattle Theatre. (By the way, "Chlotrudis" came from combining the names of...
Sure, it doesn't have the glitz or glamour of the Oscars, Emmys, Grammys, Golden Globes, or any of the countless other Hollywood award ceremonies. After all, people who spend their days pecking away at a keyboard may not all be ready for a shindig with tuxedos, red carpets, and Joan Rivers (well, is anyone ready for Rivers? - times two).
Torontoist throws down the gauntlet and challenges all comers: pillow fight, bitch. They also stand up for a fellow blogger taking heat from the TTC and welcome city-wide WiFi. SFist can finally admit it: It's possible that Bary Bonds juiced. Is Bay Area artist (tempted to put quotes around that) Thomas Kinkaid "kinda crappy" or "explosively crappy" or does he just like marking territory? SFist wonders. Technology comes in the form of new Mac goodness...
This week we're trying hard to think about something other than how hard it is out here to be a pimp. Well, ok, maybe Bostonist is looking at the Oscars and just scratching our heads. We didn't know Jon Stewart could be that bland. We're still waiting to hear what Three 6 Mafia were wearing that made the camera all jakey last night. Now that we're done with the Academy we're looking back to Grammy....
Bostonist is not going to "live blog" the Academy Awards like some of our counterparts. They may sit down to lunch everyday next to movie stars and other pop culture icons that roam their streets. We've got Danny Aiello in the North End filming his next movie, Ben Affleck every now and again back here in the Hub (visiting his Mom is what we've been told-he secretly keeps a pad in southie too) and a handful of Val Kilmer sightings on the Green Line.
In case you blocked out the hoopla known as the Oscars, the 77th Academy Awards aired last night for a short three hours and two minutes long. Held at L.A.'s Kodak Theater, the awards show went off without a hitch or much sparkle, creating a predictable show with few surprises. Chris Rock, who was being built up to perform some of his outrageous stand-up, was pretty calm, but did start the show by telling his...
The MFA brings you the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival this week. Starting with the opening of Born into Brothels on Thursday there will be a number of films from the traveling series screened at Coolidge Corner and the Museum of Fine Arts. In the spirit of the MFA they’ll cost a little bit more than a movie anywhere else, but Bostonist promises that you’ll get more out of any of the films in this series than you will from Elecktra.
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