Next to the ending of Titanic, the Academy Awards are one of Hollywood's least suspenseful dramatic exercises.
At this point every year, we can give you a pretty accurate sketch of who and what the nominees will be when they're announced Thursday in Los Angeles -- with but a few benchmarks left to come (feel free to bet the house on a best picture Oscar for whichever film wins the Producers Guild Awards Jan. 26).
There are blips, especially when critics' societies get together, and something like the French film Amour (about an octogenarian couple facing a health crisis) wins - a razzberry at New York critics, who picked Zero Dark Thirty, Kathryn Bigelow's film about the CIA's hunt for Osama Bin Laden.
Bigelow, already in the record books for being the first woman to win Best Director (for The Hurt Locker), is definitely one to watch. As are others in the following categories.
'Prometheus 2' moves forward with new writer If you were angry when screenwriter Damon Lindelof announced earlier this year he had no plans to write a sequel to Ridley Scott’s Prometheus, breathe deep. Variety is reporting that 20th Century Fox and Scott Free are turning to Jack Paglen to ... Read more
First look at DiCaprio and Scorsese's 'Wolf of Wall Street' Guess what? Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese are working together again. Surprised? Me neither. Happy? You betcha. I love Leo’s collabs with Marty and after 2010′s cerebral thriller, Shutter Island, it looks like this fall’s The ... Read more
No Loki in 'Avengers 2'? Tom Hiddleston has had quite the run as the villainous Loki in Marvel’s Thor and The Avengers. After a snippet from this November’s Thor: The Dark World revealed that the actor will be doing a three-peat on the character, the natural assumption ... Read more
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