Articles Tagged: The Oscars
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has incorporated some new rules in several Oscar categories this year, including visual effects, music, makeup and foreign-language film. The changes in the 85th Academy Awards will not affect any voting procedures, as it did when the Academy allowed the best picture category to include anywhere from five to 10 nominees. In the case of visual effects, the new standards guarantee that nominees will be chosen from a pool of 10 films selected by the visual effect branch’s executive committee. Before this year, the committee could put forward from seven to 10 films The award given in the makeup category will now…Read more
So I said to my roommate, “I’m not going to write about the Oscars. It happened, it’s over, nobody cares anymore, and everyone wrote about it this week and the weeks leading up to it.” “Makes sense,” said she. And I know it. That being said, the perfect throwback was handed to me when the illustrious and beautiful Meryl Streep accepted her award for Best Performance from an Actress in a Leading Role in The Iron Lady. “When they called my name I had this feeling I could hear half of America going ‘oh no, oh come o-, why? Her? Again?’… but whatever.” One of my all time heroes,…Read more
The Oscar’s are this weekend and PCM couldn’t be more excited. We all will be watching anxiously to see who the winners will be. Until then, we are sharing our thoughts on who we think will be going home with a trophy. – Best Picture: We’re torn between Black Swan, The King’s Speech, and The Social Network – Actor in a Leading Role: Colin Firth – Actor in a Supporting Role: Christian Bale – Actress in a Leading Role: Natalie Portman – Actress in a Supporting Role: Melissa Leo – Animated Feature Film: Toy Story 3 – Art Direction: Inception – Cinematography: Black Swan – Costume Design: Alice in Wonderland…Read more
