In honor of the upcoming Oscar season, Disney has released two Behind the Scenes Featurettes on the making of Brave. Disney Pixar's Brave was a really beautiful movie even if you judged it solely on Merida's hair. Speaking of Merida's [...]
Read more83rd Academy Awards: INCEPTION Wins Four Oscars, ALICE Takes Art Direction and Costume Design, WOLFMAN For Makeup
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 [...]
Read more83rd Academy Awards: INCEPTION Scores 8 Nominations, Nolan Gets Snubbed for Best Director
The Oscar nominations have been announced and it’s great to see Inception, Toy Story 3, Alice in Wonderland, Harry Potter, How to Train Your Dragon, Iron Man 2, Tangled, Tron, and Wolfman being honored this year. This year’s nominations hit [...]
Read moreJames 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 [...]
Read moreLOCKER Puts The Hurt On AVATAR At Oscars, Bigelow Now Queen Of The World
Kathryn Bigelow, director of “The Hurt Locker”, made Oscar history last night by being the first female director to ever be honored with the Best Director award from the Academy. The night belonged to “The Hurt Locker” as it swept [...]
Read moreOscar 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” [...]
Read moreOscar 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 [...]
Read moreOscars 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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