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By Arty Chick, on March 7th, 2010
 Best Picture
The Hurt Locker
Director
Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker
Actress
Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side
Actor
Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart
Foreign Language Film
El Secreto de Sus Ojos, Argentina
Film Editing
The Hurt Locker
Documentary Feature
The Cove
Visual Effects
Avatar
Original Score
Up, Michael Giacchino
Cinematography
Avatar
Sound Mixing
Avatar
Sound Editing
The Hurt Locker
Costume
The Young Victoria
Art Direction
Avatar
Supporting Actress
Mo’Nique, Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire
Adapted Screenplay
Geoffrey Fletcher, Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire
Makeup
Star Trek
Live Action Short Film
The New Tenants
Documentary (short subject)
Music by Prudence
Animated Short Film
Logorama
Original Screenplay
Mark Boal, The Hurt [... Keep reading]
By anychick, on March 5th, 2010
 Sunday night the Oscars for acting will be handed out. And while some of the acting categories seem locked, others look like they could go any which way. Bridges or Clooney? Or could there be a dark horse in Renner? Streep or Bullock? Wouldn’t it be a hoot if Penélope Cruz actually won for Nine? Vote for your faves and let’s see who comes out on top.
Who was the Best Actor?
Jeff Bridges in Crazy [... Keep reading]
By Arty Chick, on March 3rd, 2010
 It is just days until the Oscars and the ballots are being counted and recounted by those nerdy accountants they always drag out. With 10 pictures in the running for Best Picture this year, I think it may split the vote all over the place and make it a very close race with several movies; the bookies, however, have it down to a toss-up between The Hurt Locker and Avatar. The real question though is not who will win but who should win for Best Picture? Cast your vote and let’s see if we at [... Keep reading]
By Arty Chick, on February 21st, 2010
 This is a wonderful film! It should be on the expanded Academy Awards list for Best Picture, but sadly it isn’t. At least both Christopher Plummer as Tolstoy and Helen Mirren as his wife Sofya are nominated in their respective acting categories. The Last Station is the story of the last years of the great Russian writer Leo Tolstoy’s life, his tempestuous relationship with this wife, his coterie of adoring sycophants who turned him into a cult figure, and a young man who became his personal secretary and family confidante.
Fear not though; this is not a [... Keep reading]
By Mainstream Chick, on February 17th, 2010
 Garry Marshall is brilliant. He made a mildly entertaining movie with an A-List cast and a name that virtually guarantees it a place in holiday rerun history. Valentine’s Day is like Crash-light. Really, really, really light. It follows a bunch of folks whose lives intersect in various ways as they break up, make up, find love or survive singledom on Valentine’s Day in Los Angeles.
The cast is a virtual who’s who of stars from the big and small screen – including McSteamy and McDreamy, Kathy Bates, Jamie Foxx, Topher Grace, Jessica Biel, Ashton Kutcher, Anne Hathaway, [... Keep reading]
By Mainstream Chick, on February 13th, 2010
 Dear John seemed to come out of nowhere Super Bowl weekend to rake in more than $30 million and overtake Avatar atop the Box Office charts. But those aliens of Pandora needn’t worry too much. Movie-goers will write off Dear John way before it gets anywhere near Avatar’s record-breaking totals. Not that it’s a bad movie. It just doesn’t resonate beyond the theater walls. And I didn’t cry once!
Dear John is the latest in a slew of Nicholas Sparks novels to be turned into a big screen romantic drama (The Notebook, A Walk to Remember, Nights [... Keep reading]
By Adventurous Chick, on February 11th, 2010
 Seriously? That’s what I thought when I heard the Coen Brothers film announced as an Oscar nominee for best picture. It’s out on DVD now and I have to admit I saw it a while ago but I struggled with my review because all I wanted to say about it was “I hated it.” I can’t help but think that if anybody but Joel and Ethan Coen (Academy darlings that they are) had made this movie, it would never have been nominated for an Academy Award.
A Serious Man chronicles the woes of one Larry Gopnik, [... Keep reading]
By Arty Chick, on February 6th, 2010
 The Hurt Locker is one of those films that came and went without much fanfare, and then when all the awards nominations began to come out, it was on just about everyone’s list as best film of the year. (It received 9 Oscar nominations.) Fortunately, it is now out on DVD.
What sets this movie apart from most other “war films” is the silence. Instead of loud testosterone-driven battle scenes, The Hurt Locker is about the quiet, intense moments that are the norm for an Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit (EOD), a squad charged [... Keep reading]
By Arty Chick, on February 2nd, 2010
 The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences released their 82nd Annual Oscar Nominations this morning. With all the other awards shows and announcements of best lists these days, it is sort of anticlimactic when they finally come out. Not a whole lot of surprises here. And I’m not sure the increase to 10 Best Picture nominees was such a great idea. Here are the nominees:
Best Picture
• Avatar James Cameron and Jon Landau, Producers
• The Blind Side Nominees to be determined
• District 9 Peter Jackson and Carolynne [... Keep reading]
By Adventurous Chick, on February 1st, 2010
 With all the best picture this and best actor that of the awards season, we would be remiss if we didn’t include the Razzie Award nominations for the worst of the year. This year there are not many surprises, and we Chicks missed most (though not all) of the nominated films. Since Sandra Bullock will no doubt be nominated for an Oscar, she will be the first actress to be both a Razzie and an Academy Award nominee in the same year. Yay, Sandra!
Here are the Razzie nominees for 2009.
Worst [... Keep reading]
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