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Peter Gabriel Criticizes Oscar Producers, Pulls Out Of Performance
7:17AM Kyle Buchanan | Wall-E’s umpteenth Oscar snub: Peter Gabriel bails out. [DHD] More »
‘Wall-E’ Dealt Second Awards Snub For Its Lack of Celebrity-Voiced Pandas
3:38AM Kyle Buchanan | People, this is getting ridiculous. All Wall-E tried to do is save Earth, and now you’re repaying the little robot with a series of awards snubs that put its Best Animated Film Oscar into question. More »
Today in Awards Hell: ‘WALL-E’ Beaten Into Submission by Animated Israelis
4:16AM STV | In a timely, sort of surprising portent of things to come this awards season, the National Society of Film Critics chose the Israeli animated documentary Waltz With Bashir as its best picture of 2008. More »
Chicago Critics Overheard Cooing ‘WALL·Eeeeeeee’
5:22AM Seth | Awards excitement! London Film Critics give Slumdog six nominations, and Frost/Nixon and Happy-Go-Lucky three each. Chicago Critics named Wall-E Best Picture, in line with LA’s own shadowy cabal of professional movie-opinion-havers. More »
‘WALL-E’ Wins Top Marks From Obese, Smoothie-Slurping Members Of L.A. Critics Assn.
8:03AM Seth | Despite our best efforts to the contrary by having a Vons worker plunge an inoculation into our arm, we doubt we’ll avoid the awards fever epidemic that hits the LA area this time of year. And how can we not, when historical precedent is being set: That’s right. The Los Angeles Critics Association—voting via touchscreen from their Barcalounger hovercraft—have declared that Disney-PIXAR’s WALL-E has succeeded in capturing their plaque-encrusted hearts. It’s the first animated film in history to receive such an honour, yet didn’t quite make the grade when placed against its peers in the Best Animated Film category. (That honour went to Israel’s Waltz With Bashir.) If their decision seems unusual, it’s not without precedent, as THR points out the group did something similar in 2000 when it gave Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon its top overall honours, but recognised Magical Flying Bamboo Warriors in the Best Kung-Fu Movie That Played Fast and Loose with the Laws of Physics category. A full list of winners is after the jump. More »
5:51AM Kyle Buchanan | Attention Disney: If you’re truly serious about positioning Wall-E as a Best Picture candidate, please send out these Wall-E bentos as a culinary For Your Consideration ad. Like, now. We’re hungry, and we’ll take two. Full-size after the jump: More »
‘Wall-E’ vs. ‘The Dark Knight’: Who Has a Better Shot at Best Picture?
7:28AM Kyle Buchanan | This year’s Oscars Best Picture race is still fluid enough to account for the presence of two films that would normally seem like longshots: the Pixar masterpiece Wall-E and the box office blockbuster The Dark Knight. One is the tale of a lonely hero who talks in a funny voice, and the other is Wall-E, but both films have one thing in common: they’re huge, mainstream blockbusters, which Oscar voters don’t typically reward. However, the New York Times reports that the studio behind each film is readying a big Academy Awards push, and they’ve got their eyes set on Best Picture. Which has the better shot, and should we expect either film to wrangle a nomination for Oscar’s biggest prize? More »
‘Sex and the City’ Wins ‘Whore of the Year’ and Other Notable Product Placement Honors
5:55AM STV | The soul-deadening imposition of commercial brands on your moviegoing experience got even more shameless this morning when the oft-overlooked ring of Hell know as “brandcameo” unveiled the winners of its fourth annual Product Placement Awards. You could probably guess at least most of the heavyweight competitors — your Apples, your Fords, your Manolos — from a glance at the last year’s worth of releases, but that doesn’t make the year’s findings any less remarkable in context: The surveyors counted an average of 22.1 brands in each of the 20 films this year to have a No. 1 weekend at the box office. That number is down from 2007, when an average of nearly 25 brands were counted among the year’s 32 top releases. More »
‘Hellboy II’: The Golden Weekend
2:45AM Seth | Four ways to jump start your Monday morning: 1. Moisten fork prongs with mouth. Place end of fork between teeth, press prongs into nearest wall socket. 2. Fill microwave-safe cup with water. Microwave for 2-3 minutes (times vary). Remove cup, pour contents directly onto eyeballs. 3. Have a co-worker hold a duct tape gun to your left ear. Spin in counter-clockwise circles until your entire head is mummified inside a sticky cellophane prison. See how long you can last without breathing before slicing open at mouth. 4. Read the box office numbers! More »
