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UPDATED: Thankfully a user has sent in the trailer for Nicolas Schmerkin's Logorama so I now have video previews (and a couple of full versions) of all ten Animated Short Film Oscar Contenders. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced the ten animated short films that have advanced in the voting process for

... strategists, voters and studio executives, many of the lead contenders look the same as they have in recent years: dark, character-driven ... omitted from the best picture category last year. Viewership for the Oscar broadcast tends to increase when more moneymakers are in contention, and the academy ... Prince,” aren’t registering with a large number of Oscar voters. The biggest hit to generate ...

Here’s the trailer for the upcoming film The Last Station starring Helen Mirren. There are some amazing actors in this film, making it far more interesting to me than it would be otherwise. Helen Mirren is one of the most worthy Oscar winners in recent years for her performance in The Queen. Source: Trailer Addict

As the 82nd Annual Academy Awards are slowly approaching, more lists of semifinalists are starting to pop up. Now we finally know what films will be competing for a nomination for best visual effects. "Angels & Demons," "Avatar," "Coraline," "Disney's A Christmas Carol," "District 9," "G-Force," "G.I. Joe: The Rise of ...

... This year it going to be tough for the Best Animated Film category in Oscar. The Academy Award organizers announced on Wednesday ... We vote for “Up” as one of the toughest contenders of the best animated feature film of the forthcoming Oscars. ... ” are also in the list of 20 films vying for the Oscar, but have not been able to pull broad audience. Following are the list of a complete ...

... watchers can't help but get a major case of shpilkes about what it would mean for Oscar's chances of ever reaching a broad audience ... Sin Nombre, Amreeka or The Last Station are seen as having any major Oscar prospects. The announcement left Hollywood' ... broken Precious' stride. And so, again, our contenders get back in formation, with a mere three months to go until Oscar night. ...

If you play my Oscar pool and never see any of the animated shorts aside from the Pixar ones, you might be interested in this: Academy Announces 10 Best Animated Short Film Contenders. "The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced the animated short films short list, a list of 10 shorts ...

LOS ANGELES — Of the 89 documentary films eligible for Oscar consideration this year, 15 were selected for a short list of ... than $14 million at the box office. Also omitted from Oscar consideration was the well-reviewed Mike Tyson documentary " ... the academy's documentary branch. They watch all eligible contenders and vote for their favorites by secret ballot. The top vote-getters ...

More Oscar shortlisting, this time the Visual Effects category. Last year, most of the fanboys wanted The Dark Knight to ... with winning VFX designer Eric Barba from Oscar week). This year, the favorite has to be Avatar. In fact, ... team dwarf many of their competitors in the 15-film Academy contenders. These aren't the nominees, although five of them will be. This is the list of semi-finalists ...

DAVE KARGER, EW’S resident OSCAR expert, has put together a slideshow of 25 different films and actors that are essentially dark horse contenders at this point. But he definitely believes that all of these movies and performers deserve consideration. As always, he makes some excellent persuasive points. He has superior taste. I have been rooting for ...

... The September Issue. This year's documentary short list was narrowed down to 15 finalists from 89 possible contenders. So, yeah, obviously you're going to see some fantastic films miss the cut, and, subsequently, some pissed off filmmakers, but it's a pretty bold move for Toback to go and claim extortion, don't you think? Continue reading Oscar Snubs? Extortion Plot? Do Tell!

... the box office which is a huge amount for a documentary. The short list of films is determined by a committee of members of the academy’s documentary branch. They watch all eligible contenders and vote for their favorites by secret ballot. The top vote-getters make the short list of potential nominees. The selections this year are “The Beaches of Agnes,” “Burma VJ,” ...

... the year 2000. Here is what I want, please nominate some of the best movies from that year. I'm aiming to create a list of ten dramas and five comedies. Please leave a comment with up to five contenders. I'll compile a list and we'll narrow it down to the finalists so we can start reviewing in January. The list will be open so you can watch along. The more nominations the better ...

... he'd basically be in Daybreakers.          Other movie news:  Another Jackass movie...but in 3D!!!! We're there already. Film.com has narrowed the list of possible 2009 best picture contenders down to 12, giving one of them has a 1-1 chance Stephen King might be writing a sequel to The Shining. We think he should make it a trilogy and call the sequel Even Shinier and ...