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...statue. Charlize Theron has a lock on Best Actress: she played against type six ways to Sunday, and Roger Ebert has led the same “Best...acting...ever” critical charge that helped propel Halle Berry to her Monster’s Ball Oscar two years ago. And if Return of the King doesn’t win Best Picture (and director Peter Jackson doesn’t win Best Director), it’ll be the biggest upset since Miramax bought the 1999 Best Picture Oscar for Shakespeare in Love...
...SOSKIN: Will this be the most boring Oscars in history? There are hard favorites this year in every one of the big six categories—and I can’t remember the last year when that was the case. It’s hard to imagine Mystic River’s Sean Penn being upset for Best Actor, by Bill Murray or by anybody else; Penn’s been nominated four times, so he’d be due even if Academy voters didn’t already see him as his generation?...
...es”—commands this well-known 83-year institution, and that’s a punned order you’re only too happy to follow. Make a point of trying their extensive weekend brunch offerings, which include the popular Roasted Salmon Hash (9.95), Oscar eggs served with scrumptious potato pancakes (9.95) and Belgian waffles (7.95). The restaurant is large but so is the brunch crowd, so be prepared to wait for a table. For the impatient, there’s always the option of getting takeout from the Deli and brunching casually...
Brazilian Fernando Meirelles’ high-energy depiction of gang warfare in the titular Rio de Janeiro slum has been met with critical raves, four Oscar nominations, and comparisons to the mob pictures of Martin Scorsese. The protagonist, a young photographer named Rocket, succeeds in evading the gang lifestyle; his childhood friend fails to follow suit, instead succumbing to the temptations of crime and power. Dynamic, darkly funny and spitting electricity, City of God presents a strife-ridden world lurching towards destruction...
This story of a 1985 Andes mountain-climbing disaster comes courtesy of director Kevin MacDonald, whose film One Day in September won the Oscar for Best Documentary a few years ago. But in the vein of his last work, Touching the Void is not a clear-cut documentary; the events it examines are real, but MacDonald uses re-enactments of the story’s events to supplement a narrated account from the disaster’s survivors. The nut of their crisis: halfway through a climb, one of the two team members falls and breaks several leg bones...