Did the Oscars surprise anyone? Sci-Fi fans, we are of course still sore over Christopher Nolan’s snub for Best Director, but Inception still was recognized with four Oscars. Genre highlights from the 83rd Academy Awards also include Tim Burton’s Alice [...]
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James Cameron And The Giant Hype: Motion Capture Misrepresented?
Eight years ago, a reason why Andy Serkis was denied an Oscar nomination was a lack of recognition for how the computer, the actor, and the animator created Gollum’s performance in “The Lord of the Rings”. Last month, James Cameron [...]
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Comic Book Legend STAN LEE Launches Oscar Campaign
Comic book legend, Stan Lee thinks that it's high time that the art of the Cameo received some recognition from the Academy at the Oscars. Of course with his cameo's in all of the Marvel films, he has a vested [...]
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Oscar Highlight: THE LADY AND THE REAPER
As a continuation of our coverage of the eighty-second annual Oscars, I’d like to show you another Academy-award nominee for “Best Animated Short”, called “The Lady and the Reaper”. “The Lady and the Reaper” aka “La Dama Y La Muerte” [...]
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Oscar Highlight: GRANNY O’GRIMM’S SLEEPING BEAUTY
As I mentioned in a previous article posted today about the Oscar noms for the year 2009, there are two picks that you really must check out. The first of these two is “Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty”, an animated short [...]
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Oscars Invites Sci-Fi To The Dance Floor – AVATAR, DISTRICT 9, STAR TREK Nominated
This past Tuesday, the nominations for the eighty-second annual Academy Awards were announced and this year, it looks like scifi/fantasy films have taken another step into the mainstream consciousness of both the Academy and movie-goers alike. What’s wonderful to see [...]
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