Archive for the ‘Hollywood’ Category
Celebrating the Razzies.
The 30th Golden Raspberry Awards were held on March 6, 2010, which honours the worst movies of Hollywood that had been released in the year 2009. The Razzies, which are usually held one day preceding the Oscar Ceremony stayed true to its course in announcing the ‘Winners’ for the Worst performances in Hollywood releases. Sandra Bullock became the first actor in history to receive a Razzie and an Oscar in the same year!
The Hurt Locker Effect.
Nominated for 9 Oscars, and winning 6 out of them would have looked like an insurmountable task for the makers of Hurt Locker, which is really two years old! Now, with close to 67 awards and 6 Oscars under its belt, the measly US $ 15 million-budgeted visceral statement on the Iraq war might just be unwittingly the doorway that would usher in a draft of forthrightness and honesty in making war movies.
The Oscars 2010 Winners.
Here is the complete list of the winners of the Academy Awards 2010, also called the Oscars, undoubtedly the biggest show in Hollywood, and by now the most widely watched event world wide.We have clumped the winning titles for a single entity together, which would, we feel, give a more deepened sense of respect and admiration at the toil and efforts that went in to make it to the top of the Hollywood list.
‘Crazy Heart’ gets the Oscar.
We mentioned, way back in November,2009 about this story of a washed-up country singer that held promise of this year’s dark-horse victory at the Oscars? Well, it would be prudent enough to just say that well, this Crazy Heart just won the Oscar for the Academy Award for an Actor in a Leading Role. For Jeff Bridges, the jinx of the four Oscar nominations has at last been exorcised by the resonant strains from this Crazy Heart’s guitar, and his life.
Bourne is in Baghdad.
The Director is Paul Greengrass.Check.The lead role of the Warrant Officer aiding CIA operatives in Iraq is played by Matt Damon.Check.Its edited by Christopher Rouse.Check. Distributed by Universal.Check.But, no, Green Zone is NOT, repeat NOT a Bourne movie.t is by the same team, with the protagonist’s linear progression in the story, dangerously close to what is expected in a Bourne thriller.Make no mistake,Bourne is in the shadows of every frame.
The Maddest Wonderland.
Think Lewis Carroll, the master of logical, literary nonsense (whoa, what a combination). Add a huge dollop of Tim Burton’s fertile imagination and about an equal helping of Johnny Depp.It is doubtful if any divine force on your speed dial can save you from the ensuing madness when these three come together for a production employing every bit of technology at their beck and call to bring the fantasy alive.Lunacy meets visual brilliance.
Best Actresses’ Nominations.
With Sandra Bullock, whose films have grossed over $3.1 billion worldwide, Helen Mirren who won won at least 29 major awards for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II including the Best Actress Oscar in 2006, Carey Mulligan’s first Nomination and Gabourey Sidibe whose debut itself got her the Academy Nomination, the 82nd Academy Award for the performance by an Actress in a Leading Role would be ‘smoking”.
Oscar’s Best Actor Choices.
The finalists, Jeff Bridges, George Clooney, Colin Firth, Morgan Freeman and Jeremy Renner is by far one of the most refreshing list of finalists in nominations in Performance by an actor in a leading role ever for the marked diversity in craft and experience. From the ‘Big Lebowski’ who is on his fifth Academy nomination along with Clooney and Morgan Freeman, and Colin Firth and Jeremy Renner with their first nominations ever.
The Oscar Top 10 of 2010.
For a film community that was used to the buildup to the Oscars that came by mid-February now has to "bear the unbearable tension "of the event being stretched for another two weeks to March 7, 2010 so as not to clash with the Winter Olympics.This year sees 10 contenders for the Best Picture Category from the traditional 5 nominations. Reelity looks at the 10 Oscar Nominations for Best Motion Picture, and the ‘long’ drawn battle ahead.
Wall Street 2:Gekko is back.
It took 23 years for his second coming, but he has managed it. And as with most of us who ruminate over our actions in the cold confines of the penitentiary, Mr.Gordon Gekko is a changed man. And this time he is ‘playing’ to keep his family (or whatever is left of it) together, with a little help from his future-son-in-law.There is a murder, murkier deals and the impending meltdown that he hopes to avert, amidst his other pressing necessities.