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20 Weeks... 4 Days To Go... by The Hot Blog

I don’t think many people expect Slumdog Millionaire to get anything less than 6 Oscars, including Picture, Director, and Screenplay. But in the Top 8 categories, Rourke vs Penn, Winslet vs Streep vs Hathaway vs Leo, Cruz vs Davis, and Stanton vs Black...
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20 Weeks - 2 Weeks To Go by The Hot Blog

Ladies & Gentlemen… children of all ages… seven Oscar nominees who really didn’t go into this season expecting to be attending the Academy Awards… Viola Davis. Courtney Hunt. Richard Jenkins. Scott Hamilton Kennedy. Melissa Leo. Martin McDonagh. Michael...
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20 Weeks To Oscar: 3 Weeks To Go by The Hot Blog

D. It Is Written The great irony of this year’s Oscars is the constant battle between the devil on one shoulder and the angel on the other. The Devil says, “The year is boring… we know all the answers already… is a classic Hollywood fantasia set in a...
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13 Weeks to Oscar - The Year of Ambiguity by The Hot Blog

We've seen The Year of the Bio-Pic, The Year of the Big Director, The Year of The Indie ... but this year, it's The Year of Ambiguity. But like years past, it is looking like the thing that it is the "year of" may turn out to be the...
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15 Weeks to Oscar by The Hot Blog

It is that ambivalence that has made a near-lock out of Slumdog Millionaire , which would be seen as a strong underdog in other seasons, but as one of the few films that truly wears its heart (and movie love) on its sleeve, it has stepped into a front...
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17 Weeks To Oscar by The Hot Blog

Four of the “Five To Watch” are Oscar Insider movies. Two Kate Winslets (5 noms), one Leo DiCaprio (3 noms), a Daldry (2 noms), a Nicole (2 noms, 1 win), a Luhrmann (Moulin Rogue, 8 noms, but no Best Director for Baz), and an Eastwood (10 noms, 4 wins...
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20 Weeks To Oscar - Do Politics Matter? by The Hot Blog

Four years ago, it was one of our softest Oscar seasons. Eight years ago, it was one of our best. How much does the election matter? 2004 didn't seem terribly urgent, as the election went. As much as people wanted Bush out in this town, by this time...
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20 Weeks - Waiting... by The Hot Blog

The films will start landing in earnest in about two weeks, and between October 28 and November 21, most of the answers of what the season will really be will be answered. But until then, the dance of Oscar is complicated by two major elements. First...
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22 Weeks - Corrections, We Have Corrections... by The Hot Blog

As usual, the first round of 20 weeks charts have plenty of flaws and oversights... though some of the "oversights" are intentional. Here are some: I noticed on your prediction charts that you have THE DUCHESS spelled incorrectly (DUTCHESS)...
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22 Weeks To Oscar by The Hot Blog

The charts... I am absolutely looking forward to the films at the top of the leader board. But the W.s and the Australias and the Seven Pounds and, of course, the Slumdog Millionaire, is where the fun seems to be this season. Winning… strong… well acted...
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