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Roger Deakins Plays My Favorite Scene: ‘It’s Totally Chilling… and Quite Brilliant’

Much of the emotional power of Joel and Ethan Coen’s Best Picture contender True Grit comes from the contributions of longtime collaborator and nine-time Oscar nominee Roger Deakins, a cinematographer whose compositions and visual choices lend the Western a subtle, nostalgic quality. It’s fitting, then, that when Deakins played My Favorite Scene with Movieline recently, he pointed toward a film that also utilizes the understated to great — but very different — effect.

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Roger Deakins Plays My Favorite Scene: ‘It’s Totally Chilling… and Quite Brilliant’

David Fincher, Scott Rudin No-Shows at Today’s Oscar-Nominee Luncheon

Today’s the day this year’s Academy Awards darlings convened for the nominees luncheon, that annual ritual where power brokers, megastars, Hollywood up-and-comers and respected craftspeople get together and bond over mutual fortune and the occasional quest to locate some Tide-2-Go for errant wine droplets. Another topic of conversation: The whereabouts of David Fincher and Scott Rudin, the reeling Social Network tandem who were nowhere to be found.

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David Fincher, Scott Rudin No-Shows at Today’s Oscar-Nominee Luncheon

Chris Nolan and Guillermo del Toro: 10 Highlights From Their Memento Q&A

The filmmaking process and a particular studio head’s cojones were among the topics of discussion Friday night when director Guillermo del Toro ( Hellboy, Pan’s Labyrinth ) held a Q&A with Christopher Nolan ( The Dark Knight, Inception ) to celebrate the 10th anniversary Blu-ray release of Nolan’s breakout film, the neo-noir psychological mystery Memento . But while the sold-out crowd at L.A.’ s Egyptian Theatre got to witness the playful Del Toro warming up straight-laced Nolan like a looser, geekier James Lipton, a few topics were strictly off-limits.

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Chris Nolan and Guillermo del Toro: 10 Highlights From Their Memento Q&A

Salt, Alice in Wonderland and the Worst-Reviewed Films Nominated For an Oscar

The gold standard for bad movies getting Oscar love has to be 2007’s multiple Razzie-winning Norbit , which earned an Oscar nod for Best Make-up, and from that moment forward demanded to be called by its rightful name: ” The Academy Award-Nominated Norbit .” (Shudder.) This year’s crop of Oscar-nominated critical duds are cinematic masterworks by comparison — and most of them can thank the thankless effects, costume, and sound mixing technicians for the profile-boost — but still… who’da thunk these 8 films would have come this far?

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Salt, Alice in Wonderland and the Worst-Reviewed Films Nominated For an Oscar

Today’s Awards-Season Trading Card Star: Helena Bonham Carter

It’s time once again to return to Movieline’s recently undertaken mission to honor this year’s acting and directing nominees with a tribute that will surely outlive any trophy they could ever hope to receive: one of our daily inaugural Awards-Season Trading Cards. Today, let’s give it up for Best Supporting Actress nominee Helena Bonham Carter!

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Today’s Awards-Season Trading Card Star: Helena Bonham Carter

Defiant David Fincher Reveals Oscar Strategy

“I don’t buy this notion that emotion and sentimentality are the same,” the filmmaker says in a new THR profile. “You won’t see me on Barbara Walters; Oprah, that’s not who I am. I don’t like sentimentality because I don’t like movies that ‘tell’ me — I want to engage in a movie that says, ‘Here it is.’ It’s not a colder point of view; that’s reductive. It’s more adult.” Fair enough! Also: This might be a problem . [ THR ]

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The Case For Cobie Smulders in The Avengers (Among Other Blockbusters)

The further away I get from the news that Henry Cavill was cast as Superman , the more I appreciate the Warner Bros. decision. Not because it proves there is some silly conspiracy to hire foreign-born actors to play American icons; rather, because Warner Bros. saved everyone from having to follow along with the endless wheel-spinning short lists that usually accompany the casting of most franchise blockbusters nowadays. (See: the Warner Bros. hunt for Lois Lane as reference .) Still, if we’re going to be subjected to another short list, at least it can include names like Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Morena Baccarin and Cobie Smulders. All three actresses are reportedly up for the role of Nick Fury’s sidekick The Avengers , which got me to thinking: Why isn’t Cobie Smulders more famous?

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Play the Statuesque Sweepstakes: Choose and Share Your Oscar Picks, Win a MacBook Air!

Raise your hand if you like free stuff. Whoa. Keep it raised if you like the Oscars. Yesss. That’s what we at Movieline thought. Thus we are pleased and thrilled to introduce our Statuesque Oscar Picks Sweepstakes , wherein you put your awards-prognostication acumen to use for the opportunity to win either a MacBook Air or one of two new iPods. It’s easy!

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Play the Statuesque Sweepstakes: Choose and Share Your Oscar Picks, Win a MacBook Air!

Play the Statuesque Sweepstakes: Choose and Share Your Oscar Picks, Win a MacBook Air!

Raise your hand if you like free stuff. Whoa. Keep it raised if you like the Oscars. Yesss. That’s what we at Movieline thought. Thus we are pleased and thrilled to introduce our Statuesque Oscar Picks Sweepstakes , wherein you put your awards-prognostication acumen to use for the opportunity to win either a MacBook Air or one of two new iPods. It’s easy!

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Play the Statuesque Sweepstakes: Choose and Share Your Oscar Picks, Win a MacBook Air!

Movieline Investigates: Is There a Template for the Perfect Oscar Speech?

We’ve got the 2011 Oscars pinpointed like a Foursquare convention, but it’s time to address the less predictable element of the big night: The speeches! The Academy Awards are flush with wonderful moments ( Louise Fletcher , you goddess!), but recent Oscar winners — save Sandra Bullock — could use a few tips on speechifying. Come along as we name three podium mistakes and identify the best single speech for future winners to learn by heart.

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Movieline Investigates: Is There a Template for the Perfect Oscar Speech?