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The Film Editing category is more interesting than you may initially imagine. The award for editing was first handed out in 1934 when it went to Eskimo. That year only three films were nominated, the other two were Cleopatra and One Night of Love. One film that was not nominated was Frank Capra’s It Happened One Night, which went on…

As will always be the case with humanity, the search for black and white answers will come before examining something as a whole and realizing there are several vantage points from which something can be observed. It’s the reason Siskel and Ebert offered thumbs up or thumbs down and the reason RottenTomatoes.com is more popular…

The Academy has announced the Board of Governors has voted to rescind the Original Song nomination for “Alone Yet Not Alone,” by Bruce Broughton. A press release says the decision was prompted by the discovery Broughton, a former Governor and current Music Branch executive committee member, had emailed members of the branch to make them aware…

I don’t think anyone is surprised to see a PG-13 rating for Jurassic World, but if you’d like the reasoning for said rating see below. This week’s bulletin also includes an R-rating for Peter Bogdanovich‘s new film She’s Funny That Way, which hasn’t been receiving the kindest reviews, but does star the likes of Jennifer Aniston, Imogen Poots, Lucy Punch, Owen Wilson, Kathryn…

AS ALWAYS, March is too early to get any kind of firm grasp on what will or won’t be an Oscar contender come the end of the year, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t fun to speculate. Last year, only two of the nine films I predicted out of the gates actually ended up receiving Best…

It’s not as if Seamus McGarvey hasn’t worked on films that have been released in 3D. For example, he shot The Avengers as well as this weekend’s Godzilla, but both were post-converted into 3D. As for his thoughts on the format, well, in an interview with Pushing Pixels he doesn’t seem to be much of a fan. I think it’s very much…

If you thought Summit wasn’t going to spend more on the recently announced sequel to this weekend’s $69.6 million box-office success Twilight think again. Bill Zwecker at the Chicago Sun-Times reports its two leads, Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, are set to take home $12 million each for New Moon as Edward Cullen and Bella Swan. The article says Stewart and…

It was recently announced Warner Bros. and Fathom Events would be releasing the extended versions of The Hobbit trilogy in theaters beginning October 5. The three films would be shown over the course of three nights and will include an exclusive introduction from director Peter Jackson. One new and rather interesting piece of information regarding the upcoming extended release…

HBO just sent over the following clip from the upcoming second season of “True Blood” which was recently shown at the Paley Festival. Season two of “True Blood” debuts on HBO on June 14th and season 1 of the series will be released on DVD/Blu-ray on May 19th. The soundtrack will also be released on May 19th.…

The biggest title of note in today’s batch of MPAA ratings is Zack Snyder‘s Superman film, Man of Steel, which like producer Christopher Nolan‘s Batman franchise is rated PG-13. No surprise there, but I’m sure some will be interested in the reason for the rating, which is “for intense sequences of sci-fi violence, action and destruction, and for…