With the redesign of the site just around the corner and the changes I’ve made to the backend structure of the site I have had to delay the opening of my Oscar predictions section for this year since I would have to do double the work. However, with the announcement of the Toronto and Venice Film Festival line-ups and the Telluride Film Festival also just around the corner, we are obviously wading into the season so it only makes sense to at least acknowledge that fact with a few links and tidbits concerning the Oscar race and I think I’ll just make this a regular thing going forward.
In case you missed it, the redesign will be launching on August 25 (or perhaps even the 18th should things continue to progress as they have) and I will begin posting my first round of Oscar predictions the week of September 18, after returning home from the Toronto Film Festival. However, upon the launching of the redesign, I will have a full, up-to-date awards calendar to share with you, including all the important dates leading up to the 2013 Oscars on February 24, 2013.
All of that is on the way, but for now let’s take a look at a few of the latest awards-related headlines.
Last night the Academy announced producer Hawk Koch would be replacing Tom Sherak as the new president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Sherak took to Twitter to congratulate Hawk whose producing credits include Losing Isaiah and Gorky Park as well as an executive producer credit on Source Code.
https://twitter.com/TomSherak/status/230509228408848384
Meanwhile, David Poland at Movie City News takes a look at the Toronto and Venice line-ups searching for Oscar contenders as well as exploring those avoiding the festival circuit as we are now 29 weeks away from the 2013 Oscars. His top TIFF contenders look like this:
- The Master
- Anna Karenina
- Silver Linings Playbook
- Argo
- Cloud Atlas
- End of Watch
- Hyde Park on The Hudson
- Killing Them Softly (Which isn’t playing at TIFF to my knowledge)
- To the Wonder
I definitely wouldn’t count out The Impossible, The Company You Keep, Great Expectations, Quartet or even Martin McDonagh‘s Midnight Madness premiere of Seven Psychopaths.
There has been question as to whether the Coen brothers’ music-driven drama Inside Llewyn Davis will actually hit theaters this year considering it is without a distributor and wasn’t listed for any of the “big three” festivals, but I wouldn’t be surprised to see it play the New York Film Festival given the period setting in the heart of the early 1960s folk music revolution in Greenwich Village.
Star Oscar Isaac recently discussed the film with The Hollywood Reporter saying:
“It was bliss. It was complete bliss… I play a guy that’s down on his luck, but it was very hard to feel that way because I was just always had a smile from ear to ear. I was elated just to be there.
“I’ve been playing for 20 years, so it was kind of the perfect storm of things that came together for me to be a part of it… We did all the music live, no playback; it’s like a concert movie. There’s like six or seven songs in it.”
The film co-stars Justin Timberlake, Carey Mulligan, Garrett Hedlund and John Goodman. I expect we’ll be hearing more about this one very soon.
Finally, yesterday I gave click here to do so.
