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Goldderby.com: Golden Globe Predictions from the top Experts

January 15, 2011 By Thelma Leave a Comment

2011 Red Carpet Golden Globe Predictions

By Gold Derby News Desk

Jan 15 2011 | 07:30 am

The Golden Globes will be doled out this Sunday. We assembled expert predictions from two dozen top awards pundits. They forecast all the races and expect a fierce battle between “The King’s Speech” and “The Social Network” for Best Drama Picture. However, they think three of the four top acting races are virtual locks as is Best Director.

Our notable panel includes: Thelma Adams (Us Weekly, Thelmadams.com), Tim Appelo (Hollywood Reporter), Lane Brown (New York Vulture), Erik Davis (Cinematical), Scott Feinberg (ScottFeinberg.com) Pete Hammond (Deadline Hollywood), Joseph Kapsch (Zap2It), Dave Karger (Entertainment Weekly), Tariq Khan (Fox News), Peter Knegt (Indie Wire), Guy Lodge (In Contention), Michael Musto (Village Voice), Tom O’Neil (Gold Derby, The Envelope), Steve Pond (The Odds, The Wrap), Nathaniel Rogers (Film Experience), Paul Sheehan (Gold Derby), Keith Simanton (IMDB), Sasha Stone (AwardsDaily), Kris Tapley (In Contention), Anne Thompson (Indiewire), Bob Tourtellotte (Reuters), Chuck Walton (Fandango), Jeff Wells (Hollywood-Elsewhere), Susan Wloszczyna (USA Today).

See the racetrack odds on the top Golden Globe races based upon these expert predictions HERE.

BEST DRAMA PICTURE
“Black Swan”
“The Fighter” – Lodge
“Inception”
“The King’s Speech” – Appelo, Hammond, Karger, Khan,  Knegt, Musto, Pond, Sheehan, Simanton, Stone, Thompson, Tourtellotte
“The Social Network” – Adams, Brown, Davis, Feinberg, Kapsch, O’Neil, Rogers, Tapley, Walton, Wells, Wloszczyna [Read more…]

Filed Under: Celebrity, Movies & TV, Oscar Race Tagged With: 127 Hours, Academy Awards, best actor, best actress, best picture, Best Supporting Actor, Best supporting actress, Black Swan, Blue Valentine, Colin Firth, Danny Boyle, drama, goldderby.com, Inception, James Franco, Natalie Portman, Nicole Kidman, Oscars, The Kids Are All Right, The King's Speech, The Social Network, The Town, Tom O'Neil, Toronto International Film Festival, Toy Story 3, True Grit, Winter's Bone

Movie Review: Blue Valentine

December 30, 2010 By Thelma Leave a Comment

Ryan Gosling, Michelle Williams, Blue Valentine, Hamptons International Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, Top Ten List, Must-see Movie, Movie Reviews, Us Weekly

Ryan Gosling woos future wife Michelle Williams

Us Rating ****

Dean (Ryan Gosling) and Cindy (Michelle Williams) get naked physically and strip bare emotionally in this brilliant, devastatingly honest portrait of a couple whose relationship is circling the drain. Their save-the-marriage sex scene in a shabby hotel devastates because — at least for Cindy — their love has vanished. Gosling and Williams pull and stretch in vivd, career-best performances that demand Oscar recognition.

Filed Under: Criticism, Movies & TV, Oscar Race Tagged With: Academy Awards, best actor, best actress, best picture, Blue Valentine, drama, goldderby.com, Michelle Williams, movie reviews, Parenting, Tom O'Neil, Us Weekly

Movie Review: True Grit

December 24, 2010 By Thelma 1 Comment

True Grit,Hailee Steinberg,Jeff Bridges,Matt Damon, Coen Brothers,Western,Us Weekly,Movie Reviews,Must-see,New Releases,Oscars, Academy AwardsUs Rating: ****

In this bull’s-eye of a Western, a 14-year-old (Hailee Steinfeld) hires a drunk (Jeff Bridges) to find her father’s killer (Josh Brolin). The Coen Brothers (No Country For Old Men), who wrote and directed, jave delivered  a deadplan yarn about a frontier girl’s mettle and power to affect men around her. Matt Damon delights as a lawman, but it’s Steinfeld who stands out. Not since Anna Paquin won an Oscar for The Piano has a girl shown such screen presence.

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Filed Under: Criticism, Oscar Race Tagged With: Academy Awards, best actor, best picture, Best Supporting Actor, Best supporting actress, drama, goldderby.com, movie reviews, Oscars, True Grit, Us Weekly, Western

Movie Review: Rabbit Hole

December 24, 2010 By Thelma Leave a Comment

Us Rating: **

After their only son is killed in a car accident, Becca (Nicole Kidman) and Howie (Aaron Eckhart) hit an emotional iceberg in this oppressively bleak drama. A taut-faced Kidman courts Oscar with her obvious arc: grief, the slow burn of guilt, the angry pop and, finally, redemption. Eckhart’s more accessible character flirts and gets high with a fellow bereaved parent (a strong Sandra Oh) in scenes that come as a relief. Actors love these meaty roles; viewers, less so.

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Filed Under: Criticism, Oscar Race Tagged With: Academy Awards, best actress, drama, goldderby.com, Golden Globes, movie reviews, Nicole Kidman, Oscars, Us Weekly

Web Exclusive: Interview With Vincent Cassel

December 13, 2010 By Thelma Leave a Comment

Black Swan, Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor, Vincent Cassel, Natalie Portman, David Cronenberg, Darren Aronofsky, Viggo Mortensen, Best Actress, Monica Bellucci

From his angry young man in La Haine (1995), to his Capoeira-loving Ocean’s 12 sidekick and his Cesar-award winning Mesrine, Vincent Cassel, 44, gives his all: head, heart and muscle. We sat down at Manhattan‘s Mercer Hotel to discuss his domineering ballet master in Black Swan. I found him intense, playful and every bit the French gentleman (no talking with his mouth full despite the steak on the plate before him!).

TA Is there a difference between making films in France and in America?

VC I don’t think it has any thing to do with the nationality. It’s just that it changes from one director to the other. You can’t compare a Darren Aronofsky to Oliver Stone. There is this idea that it’s very different from the French point of view to work in America blah, blah, blah. But I think it’s different from one person to the other, not from one country to the other

TA What was it like with Aronofsky?

VC Easy. We’re the same age, the same sensibility. I like him, first of all. I‘ve been watching him not because I felt that one day I would work with him but because I was interested in his path, his choices. While he was shooting The Fountain we were shooting Renegade. It was a shamanic western. It had a lot to do with The Fountain. There was some thing else in common: It was a flop.

TA And now you share a hit. What was it like creating Thomas Leroy in Black Swan?

VC it was a coming back home. I grew up in the very environment, in studios and backstage and onstage because my father was dancing.

TA: Gene Kelly discovered your father, Jean-Pierre Cassel, tap dancing on stage, right?

VC He was a dancer and an actor. We had a pretty close relationship with Michael Bennett, director of A Chorus Line. My father portrayed Zach, the director. So he was doing more or less the part I’m playing in Black Swan: very demanding, sadistic, tough on the dancers. When I read the script I felt like, oh, I know that world.  [Read more…]

Filed Under: Celebrity Tagged With: Academy Awards, best actress, Best Supporting Actor, Black Swan, drama, goldderby.com, Interview, Natalie Portman, Oscars, Toronto International Film Festival, Vincent Cassel

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