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...that time again: when people, and journalists too, must pretend to care about the Oscars. With this morning's announcement of the nominations - which ignored Brad Pitt's work in Babel and Jack Nicholson's in The Departed, and gave Dreamgirls a leading eight nominations (three for original song!) but stiffed it in the writing, directing and picture categories - a six-week flood of hope and hype begins, culminating in Oscar Night on Feb. 25. Las Vegas has already established its betting line for major categories. Everyone else, thinking ahead about Oscar office pools, will start scanning websites for tips...
...Hollywood, there are movies (the ones made to make money), and then there are Oscar movies (the ones made to win awards). Only in rare cases, like Titanic and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, do the two genres intersect. For 2006, for example, the five live-action movies that grossed more than $200 million at the domestic box office - Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, X-Men: The Last Stand, The Da Vinci Code, Night at the Museum and Superman Returns - received not a single major nomination among them. (Cars, the top-grossing...
...critically acclaimed 9/11 docudrama, failed to nab a slot. It pulled in a respectful $31.5 million here, $44.1 million abroad. I'd say that United 93 was snubbed for two reasons: because a lot of people were reluctant, perhaps afraid, to relive 9/11, and because, for the Academy, all Oscar politics is local. Crash proved that last year. It was the ultimate L.A. movie - a drama about car violence on the interracial highway - while United 93 is the ultimate New York movie. Its shot of a passenger jet cruising into a Manhattan skyscraper pretty much defines pornography...
...Film Festival. In this Lourdes of independent movies, hermitty young auteurs will schmooze with Hollywood's BlackBerry set. From the ferment of high art and hype art will emerge new faces, new voices and, I can almost guarantee, at least one film that will figure in next year's Oscar race--just as Little Miss Sunshine, from Sundance '06, is being touted for a Best Picture Academy Award nomination...
...confidence and persuade the financing community that, going forward, things are going to be stable, you're in a good position." Hollywood already adores Brits: Helen Mirren and Sacha Baron Cohen picked up top awards at Monday's Golden Globes, while a bunch of their compatriots are tipped for Oscar nominations on Jan. 23. Now Britain's film industry is a main attraction again...