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Except that on Sunday night, the haves had not. Clooney did not win an Academy Award, and neither did the film he was nominated for, the early front runner (and utterly Oscar-worthy) Up in the Air, which even failed to cop its expected prize for Best Adapted Screenplay. Avatar won only three of the nine categories for which it was eligible - the door prizes of Cinematography, Art Direction and Special Effects - and its begetter, James Cameron, supped on the special gall of losing Best Picture and Best Director to The Hurt Locker and his ex-wife Kathryn Bigelow, respectively...
...Hurt Locker's Oscar haul had less to do with the movie's merits than with the Academy membership's make-up and mind-set. Remember, to win Best Picture you don't have to make the best picture; you have to make the picture that appeals to the voters, who are older, politically liberal and artistically conservative. Here's how those and other factors may have played in The Hurt Locker's favor - and doomed Avatar...
...throw away their walkers and actually go to a theater - the only place Avatar can be appreciated in all its 21st century splendor. Filmmakers rushing to the 3-D format had better learn to be satisfied with the boodle they earn at the box office and not expect to win Oscars for a project that doesn't look like an HBO movie...
...victory at the historic Palestra gave Harvard its first sweep of Penn since the 1941-42 season, along with a program-record 10 road wins. Friday night also represented the Crimson’s 20th Division I win...
Still, the movie is visually enticing and steadily engaging. The script is by Michael C. Martin, a former subway worker who wrote it hoping to win a $10,000 screenplay contest. He nabbed second place, despite lines like "These streets got an expiration date on them" which Don Cheadle, remarkably, almost manages to sell. Cheadle is intensely watchable - when isn't he? - but I'm not sure Tango could really have maintained his cover all those years. He's always discouraging violence or telling youngsters in the projects to go to college. The only time Cheadle convinced me Tango might...