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Gurus o’ Gold: Top 2in’ It (Pt 2 of 2)

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The Gurus are now locked into their Top 2 in all Oscar award except for the 3 Shorts categories.

In these 10 categories today, the Gurus have Hugo taking 5 statues home. That would make Hugo the film with the most Oscar wins this season… though with 4 projected wins (Picture, Actor, Director, Score), some would say that The Artist was winning the war.

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17 Days To Oscar: A Thin Line Between Win & Lose

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When an Academy member, just like any other kid in high school, tells their friends whom they voted for, they want to feel good about defending their choice. Fair or not, Melissa McCarthy is “the one who shit in the sink” this year. They may have laughed their colostomy bags off when they saw the film and most voters feel good about Ms McCarthy getting nominated. But when it comes down to bestowing the gold, shit in the pie in the name of dignity will win out over shit in the sink caused by bad Mexican food every time.

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Gurus o’ Gold: Top 2in’ It (Pt 1 of 2)

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DP/30: New Acting Nominee Interviews

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The Gronvall Files: Asghar Farhadi, writer/director of A Separation

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Gurus o’ Gold: 1st Ranking Of Oscar Nominees In All Categories (Pt 2 of 2)

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Gurus o’ Gold: 1st Ranking Of Oscar Nominees In All Categories (Pt 1 of 2)

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The Oscar Nominations

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Gurus o’ Gold: Post-Globes/Pre-Oscar Nominations

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Gurus o’ Gold: Welcome To 2012

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The Best of 2011: Critics, Awards and Box Office

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The Top Tens of 2011: 210 Lists And Counting

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The Top Tens: Updated January 2

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The 2011-2012 Critics Awards Scoreboard

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The Top Tens: Updated December 30

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The Top Tens of 2011: December 27

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The Top Tens of 2011: December 23

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Gurus o’ Gold: Happy Holidays

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Gurus o’ Gold: Golden Globes Nominations

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2011 Top Tens: The First of the Lists

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“It has some classical elements and a rock vibe as well.”
Japanese Rock Star Reveals Golden Globes Theme Secrets!

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“I don’t care about them not liking the joke, but they’ve got to understand it before they criticize it. They’ve got to know what my intention was.”
Itzkoff Gets Paid To Tolerate Ricky Gervais’ Pseudo-Asperger’s Non-Apologetic Shtick

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“It’s called the Academy Awards. Academy members should get to vote.”
O’Hehir Rounds Up More Reactions To Oscar Doc Shifts

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“If both The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times were to ignore a film with a true theatrical release, Mr. Moore added, the Academy would be inclined to qualify it anyway. “We’ll have a very liberal appeals process,” he said.”
Michael Moore Fills In Some Blanks Of Earlier Reporting On Oscar’s Seismic Shifts For Feature Docs
And – Sasha Stone Adds More

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“The only thing I didn’t build was my pencil.”
Dante Ferretti On Hugo

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“I’ve seen cuts that were the first or second drafts of the movie. There were amazing things: much more of the children and Jessica and Brad. And you could almost make a whole other movie about Sean. There’s another side to his story. It’s almost unexplored in the film.”
~ Emanuel Lubezki On The Roots Of Tree Of Life

“Well, it’s not a religious event. I hate to tell people that. It’s a movie, just a movie. The controversy over who shot first, Greedo or Han Solo, in Episode IV, what I did was try to clean up the confusion, but obviously it upset people because they wanted Solo to be a cold-blooded killer, but he actually isn’t. It had been done in all close-ups and it was confusing about who did what to whom. I put a little wider shot in there that made it clear that Greedo is the one who shot first, but everyone wanted to think that Han shot first, because they wanted to think that he actually just gunned him down. It’s the same thing with Yoda. We tried to do Yoda in CGI in Episode I, but we just couldn’t get it done in time. We had to use the puppet, but the puppet really wasn’t as good as the CGI. So when we did the reissue, we  put the CGI back in, which was what it was meant to be. If you look at Blade Runner, it’s been cut sixteen ways from Sunday and there are all kinds of different versions of it. Star Wars, there’s basically one version—it just keeps getting improved a little bit as we move forward.”
~ George Lucas Suggests His Empire Not A Religion

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