Here’s the complete list of this year’s winners. The Hurt Locker took the biggest prizes, winning Best Director and Best Picture, I really thought it should have been QT’s year as The Hurt Locker in my opinion was highly overrated as good as it was. Winners in RED.
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2010 Academy Awards Winners
March 7th, 2010 by The Mayor
Download the 2010 Academy Awards Ballot
March 5th, 2010 by The Mayor
You can play along at home this Sunday and download the official ballot for The Oscars. I do watch the show each year, often bored. I am not looking forward to the dual hosting job of Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin. Martin seems like he’s been pissed off for the last ten years, while Baldwin, well he’s just great actually. [Download]
Here is hoping that Inglourious Basterds wins everything and shuts up Avatar and the Hurt Locker. Ooh that’s a bingo!
Reel: Roger Ebert on Oprah, His Oscar Picks
March 3rd, 2010 by The Mayor
Roger Ebert was on Oprah this past Tuesday to discuss his now beaten cancer and how he his regaining his voice via technology. Pretty crazy stuff. As we noted before, he had recorded commentaries for several DVD movies before he lost his voice [Citizen Kane being one of the best he did, a must listen]. A Scottish company called CereProc blended digital recordings of Ebert speaking to make his text-to-audio voice.
Here he is on Oprah giving his Oscar predictions and such, seeming well happy:
Ebert Found His Voice, Pretty Amazing
March 2nd, 2010 by The Mayor
Roger Ebert lost his ability to speak after surgery for cancer. He had recorded commentaries for several DVD movies before he lost his voice [Citizen Kane being one of the best he did, must listen]. A Scottish company called CereProc blended digital recordings of Ebert speaking to make his text-to-audio voice. Ebert says it has has helped him regain a voice his grandchildren can recognize, and as you will see in the clip below, as does his wife Chaz.
Ebert lost his ability to speak after surgery for cancer. He has been doing a lot of writing online, reviews and a blog. Ebert writes that the voice will be heard predicting Oscar winners on a segment of The Oprah Winfrey Show airing Tuesday. He says he may be able to use the voice for radio and webcasts. I continue to be impressed by how Ebert is living his life.
Scorsese’s The Key To Reserva
February 18th, 2010 by The Mayor
A few years ago Martin Scorsese made a short film, The Key To Reserva, based on a three-page script by Alfred Hitchcock. No not really; it’s actually a part of an ad campaign for Champagne and a rather big elaborate joke. Each year on Christmas day a new spot is shown on Spanish TV, and Martin Scorsese got to be the director in 2007. He only had to comply with one condition for making the film – the bottle and the name of Reserva had to appear on the screen.
It’s remarkable how he captures all the notes right out of a trademark Hitchcock film, the angles and music make this one of the best short films I have ever seen.
It’s one thing to preserve a film that’s been made. It’s another thing to preserve a film that’s not been made.
- M. Scorsese