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Polishing the Oscar, Part 5: Best Picture
Polishing the Oscar, Part 5: Best Picture
So we now come to the last of the major categories, and soon I'll turn it over to my pal Arion Berger, Arts Editor of the W ashington Post Express , to fearlessly prognosticate on who will win the Best Picture Oscar, to be followed by my weepy aesthete's musing on who ought to win. I've been seeing in comments a buncha folks agitated not over our predix/desires but over who DIDN'T get ...
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SpoutBlog — Everybody in the world––even George Clooney!––predicts No Country For Old Men will win Best Picture. Which means it probably won’t. An Oscar podcast, featuring John Lichman, Vadim Rizov, Keith Uhlich and our Oscar party co-host, Stu VanAirsdale. News flash! More white people have won Oscars than black people! We’re not going to be live blogging the Oscars, but Kate Coe’s got a guide to those who will be. We will be live Twittering the show from ...

Links for the Day (February 23rd & 24th, 2008): Academy Awards Edition
The House Next Door — ... man-child of Flandres), Joe Souza (memorable as cock on the left in Naked Boys Singing), and, last but never least, Tobin Bell, mainly for that autopsy scene, in Saw IV; and if you think he doesn’t have a chance due to limited screen time, tell it to Beatrice Straight. Prediction: Expect a split between both Lee Kang-Shengs and for Bell to prevail, finalement!" ] *** 4. Glenn Kenny's "Polishing the Oscar" series: Parts One , Two , Three , Four , and Five . With "Diablo Cody is the faux-hipster Nia Vardalos, maybe" and "A friendly ...

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