Sunday, February 27, 2011 at 15:49 
Well, here it is. It's the end of the journey. Back in September I posted an entry in the blog with my early Oscar predictions. It was rather a tentative attempt at predicting which of the films with a relative early release date could manage to keep the momentum and the Academy's attention until the decisive moment when its members cast their ballots.
Wednesday, January 5, 2011 at 10:56 
When Judi Dench gave her acceptance speech after winning the Oscar for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth in Shakespeare in Love in 1999, she anticipated disapproving comments on account of the brevity of her part in the film by saying: 'I feel for eight minutes on the screen, I should only get a little bit of him'.
Friday, December 3, 2010 at 10:42 
The 2010 National Board of Review Awards have been announced. I'll post soon an analysis of the results in Imitation of Life. Until then, here is the complete list of winners. You can compare it against my predictions, which are available in the previous entry of the blog.
Just one comment. Lesley Manville and Jacki Weaver have been named best actress and supporting actress, respectively. Does it get any better?
Wednesday, December 1, 2010 at 18:32 
Sight & Sound, the legendary film magazine of the British Film Institute, has published its annual list of top films of the year and David Fincher's The Social Network has been named best film of 2010.
It is certainly surprising that a publication usually accused of elitism and snobbery gives top honours to an American major studio film. The last American picture to top the list was Brokeback Mountain back in 2005. However the film was not produced by one of the major studios. Other recent winners include the Romanian film 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, the British Hunger and the French A Prophet, which appears again in this year's list at number 8.
