Avatar (Mauro Fiore) won the top honors in the Cinematography category at the 82nd Annual Academy Awards tonight. Here were the other films in the running: Das weisse Band – Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte (2009): Christian Berger Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009): Bruno Delbonnel The Hurt Locker (2008): Barry Ackroyd Inglourious Basterds (2009): Robert […]
Avatar (Rick Carter, Robert Stromberg, Kim Sinclair) took the Best Art Direction award at the 82nd Oscars tonight. Avatar’s rivals for the top honor included: The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009): David Warren, Anastasia Masaro, Caroline Smith Nine (2009): John Myhre, Gordon Sim Sherlock Holmes (2009): Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer The Young Victoria (2009): Patrice […]
At the 82nd Oscars tonight, Mo’Nique won the Best Supporting Actress award for her performance in Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire. We watched the trailer of Precious several times but never got around to watching the movie itself. Here were the other contenders: Vera Farmiga for Up in the Air (2009/I) Penélope […]
Mighty Disappointed that Inglourious Basterds failed to make it tonight. Hurt Locker won the Best Original Screenplay award tonight. Here’s an excerpt from SearchIndia.com’s review of Hurt Locker: Make no mistake, schmucks. The Hurt Locker is not a bad movie. Actually, it’s a fairly decent movie that has you in its grip for the better […]
By turns endearingly smiling, casually witty, unfailingly polite and menacingly violent, Waltz as Col Landa turns in one of the finest performances we’ve seen on the big screen in a long time. – SearchIndia.com in the review of Inglourious Basterds last year. And guess what, folks. Christoph Waltz won the Best Supporting Actor prize at […]
Up won the Best Animated Feature Oscar at the 82nd Academy Awards tonight. By the way, we watched Up in June last year and didn’t think much of it. Here’s what SearchIndia.com wrote in the review of Up (3D): But more than the story itself what left us most disappointed was the 3D aspect of […]