AWARDS RACE

By Sean O’Connell Hollywoodnews.com: HollywoodNews.com’s Awards Season Roundup collects insights from around the Internet on films that are running in the Oscar race. Paramount unveiled a new Web site for “The Fighter,” complete with new clips and images. HitFix analyzes the screeners that arrived in time for Thanksgiving. Daniel Day-Lewis could play Abraham Lincoln[...]

By Sean O’Connell Hollywoodnews.com: When the Academy announced the 15 feature-length documentaries eligible for the upcoming Academy Awards, Amir Bar Lev’s “The Tillman Story” found itself in good company alongside Alex Gibney’s “Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer,” Charles Ferguson’s “Inside Job” and Davis Guggenheim’s “Waiting for ‘Superman.’”[...]

By Sean O’Connell Hollywoodnews.com: HollywoodNews.com’s Awards Season Roundup collects insights from around the Internet on films that are running in the Oscar race. “Inside Job,” “Waiting for ‘Superman,’” “The Tillman Story” and “Restrepo” lead the short list of 15 docs eligible for Oscar consideration. But what about [fill in the blank]?!? As reported[...]

By Sean O’Connell Hollywoodnews.com: Tracking the Oscar race is a daily occurrence here at HollywoodNews.com. Oscar in a Minute is our new audio podcast that weighs in, briefly, on items that move us during the awards season. To hear previous entries, type “Oscar” into our search engine. Today, we’re focusing on[...]

By Sean O’Connell Hollywoodnews.com: Lisa Cholodenko’s “The Kids Are All Right” continues to make waves in the Oscar race, drumming up support in multiple categories as we truck along towards nominations time. While several studios have had to make concessions to get screener copies of their films in voters’ hands, Focus[...]

By Sean O’Connell Hollywoodnews.com: HollywoodNews.com’s Awards Season Roundup collects insights from around the Internet on films that are running in the Oscar race. Natalie Portman and Colin Firth have been announced as winners of the Desert Palm Achievement Awards for Acting by the Palm Springs Film Festival. Speaking of Portman, wouldn’t it be[...]

By Sean O’Connell Hollywoodnews.com: Tracking the Oscar race is a daily occurrence here at HollywoodNews.com. Oscar in a Minute is our new audio podcast that weighs in, briefly, on items that move us during the awards season. To hear previous entries, type “Oscar” into our search engine. Today, we spotlight the[...]

By Sean O’Connell Hollywoodnews.com: HollywoodNews.com’s Awards Season Roundup collects insights from around the Internet on films that are running in the Oscar race. The Academy announced today that only three films will be nominated in the animation category. That field just became incredibly tough to predict. “True Grit” revealed its new poster today. So did[...]

By Sean O’Connell Hollywoodnews.com: Darren Aronofsky’s “Black Swan” closed AFI Fest 2010 Thursday night, sending several critics and Oscar pundits to Twitter post-screening to sing the film’s praises. The words “brilliant” and “masterpiece” were used so often, I’m surprised they weren’t trending on the social media tool. And IndieWire’s Anne Thompson[...]

By Sean O’Connell Hollywoodnews.com: Tracking the Oscar race is a daily occurrence here at HollywoodNews.com. Oscar in a Minute is our new audio podcast that weighs in, briefly, on items that move us during the awards season. To hear previous entries, type “Oscar” into our search engine. Today, we’re taking the[...]