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New video blog: Best Supporting Vlog will hold your statue for you while you thank your agent
We're thrilled to launch a new video blog series that charts the ups and downs of the most exciting season of the year. No, not the holidays - Awards season! In Best Supporting Vlog, our buddy John Polly from NewNowNext is joined by Liz Dahmen for a weekly(-ish) discussion of everything you need to know to win your office Oscar pool. They'll bring you all the Oscar buzz, discuss which heavy-duty movies are coming out, what’s gonna win, and who’s getting shafted. Plus, they’ll present freaky Oscar party ideas, trailer reviews (in case you can’t see the whole damn movie) and loopy insight on how this all might matter to gay folks as we lead up to the Golden Globes (January 11) and the big daddy of the season, the Oscars (February 22). This week the pair talk Oscar history, Revolutionary Road, Kate & Leo, Hugh Jackman vs. the absence of a good lesbian host and those baffling Golden Globes. Plus … Chocolate Malted Harvey Milk Balls! So tasty! Join the fun, after the break!
And, for the purposes of discussion, the Revolutionary Road trailer: Submitted by on Fri, 2008-12-19 10:02. |
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Cedric Gibbons
The man who designed the Oscar statue was Cedric Gibbons who headed the art department at MGM and was also one of the original members of the academy's tech branch. The five spokes on the reel of film that Oscar stands atop of represent the five original branches of the academy: producers, directors, actors, writers and technical.
Also, with regard to Liz's theory, remember Kate still has yet to win an Oscar. If she ends up being nommed for both Revolutionary Road and The Reader (in Lead Actress and Supporting Actress respectively) and loses both those races, she will surpass Deborah Kerr as Oscar's biggest losing lady.
Love that there is a blog dedicated to movie awards. I have a blog on movie awards where I have a tracker of which films are winning all the film critics awards and you can find it here:
http://awardscentral.newsvine.com
If you guys ever need an unofficial Academy historian/forecaster to help you out with anything, I'd be honored to lend my services.
One thing to keep an eye on is the Best Picture race. There are four definite films that will show up: Slumdog Millionaire, Frost/Nixon, Milk and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. But there is a debate as to which film will fill the fifth slot. Will it be Doubt, Revolutionary Road, The Wrestler, The Dark Knight or the animated film Wall-E? There's some talk that Wall-E could actually round out this year's Best Picture nominees.
Can't wait for the next column.