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Oscar Index: We Need to Talk About Spielberg

Welcome back to Oscar Index, your infallible weekly dispatch from Movieline’s Institute for the Advanced Study of Kudos Forensics. This installment welcomes a few new faces to the mix — and not a minute too soon, either, as the race attains a strange, stagnant calm before the storm. Let’s investigate!

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REVIEW: Paranormal Activity 3 Good for a Few Jumps and Giggles, But Evaporates Almost Immediately

My complicated muddle of feelings toward the Paranormal Activity franchise are directly related to my acute personal susceptibility to jump scares. They work on me embarrassingly well. A film that’s as reliant on them on Paranormal Activity 3 , the series’ latest episode, can have me as twitchy as an meth addict out of agonized anticipation of the inevitable “boo.”

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Oscar Index: Is It February Yet?

Welcome back to week five of Movieline’s 2011-12 Oscar Index — week five! Already! We’re entering the second month of this sucker, and our scientists and the Institute for the Advanced Study of Kudos Forensics remain hard at work uncovering new hints and implications every passing day. Well, not every passing day. OK, like, maybe a couple times a week. What can I tell you? It’s still early! Let’s have a glimpse at the latest — if light — movement this week.

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Venice Awards: Faust Wins Big, Michael Fassbender Takes Best Actor

Get out your scoresheets and see how they compare with those of Venice Film Festival jury boss Darren Aronofsky, whose group today awarded the fest’s top prize, the Golden Lion, to Aleksandr Sokurov’s film Faust . The heavily favored Michael Fassbender won the fest’s Best Actor award for Shame , while Deanie Ip earned Best Actress for the Stephanie Zacharek-endorsed Hong Kong effort A Simple LIfe . Other big winners included People Mountain People Sea and Terraferma ; congrats to all! [ AP ]

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Fox Searchlight Picks Up Shame; NC-17 Next?

As presumed , word from the first day of the Toronto International Film Festival has Shame finding a distribution deal. But not quite as presumed, Steve McQueen’s acclaimed drama is at Fox Searchlight — which will almost certainly face an NC-17 rating for the movie’s frank sexuality and graphic nudity.

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Carey Mulligan Makes Her Full-Frontal Nude Debut in Shame

Shame , the second film by Steve McQueen (the British director, not “Bullitt”) had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival last week. Even the jaded critics in the audience were shocked by the film’s sexplicit NC-17 content, including indiewire ‘s David Gritten , who called the movie “edgy” and “transgressive.” Gritten went on to say: Michael Fassbender plays Brandon, a successful thirtysomething Manhattan executive…He is obsessed by sexual gratification, and surfs internet porn on his computer at work and his laptop at home. He seduces women in bars, on the subway and in his office. Carey Mulligan co-stars as Fassbender’s capricious sister, who apparently proves that sex addiction can be genetic: Fassbender has several scenes involving full-frontal nudity and Mulligan has one of her own. .. Presumably it would receive an NC-17 rating, and even liberal American audiences are more likely to be turned off by its explicitness than their European counterparts. …in other words, a perfect date movie, if your date is a smut-minded European. (And if she is, does she have any single friends we can call?) This will be the full-frontal debut for pixie-maned Carey, who has briefly shown her suck sacks in When Did You Last See Your Father ? (2007) and The Greatest (2009). Carey’s will NOT be the only female flesh on display, either; earlier this summer, several up-and-coming actresses shocked passerby by engaging in public nudity while filming in Manhattan ( See the pics here ). Shame ‘s release dates are still TBA, but members can see more from Carey Mulligan right now here at MrSkin.com!

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Nude Star Carey Mulligan Makes Her Full-Frontal Debut in Shame

Shame , the second film by Steve McQueen (the British director, not “Bullitt”) had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival last week. Even the jaded critics in the audience were shocked by the film’s sexplicit NC-17 content, including indiewire ‘s David Gritten , who called the movie “edgy” and “transgressive.” Gritten went on to say: Michael Fassbender plays Brandon, a successful thirtysomething Manhattan executive…He is obsessed by sexual gratification, and surfs internet porn on his computer at work and his laptop at home. He seduces women in bars, on the subway and in his office. Carey Mulligan co-stars as Fassbender’s capricious sister, who apparently proves that sex addiction can be genetic: Fassbender has several scenes involving full-frontal nudity and Mulligan has one of her own. .. Presumably it would receive an NC-17 rating, and even liberal American audiences are more likely to be turned off by its explicitness than their European counterparts. …in other words, a perfect date movie, if your date is a smut-minded European. (And if she is, does she have any single friends we can call?) This will be the full-frontal debut for pixie-maned Carey, who has briefly shown her suck sacks in When Did You Last See Your Father ? (2007) and The Greatest (2009). Carey’s will NOT be the only female flesh on display, either; earlier this summer, several up-and-coming actresses shocked passerby by engaging in public nudity while filming in Manhattan ( See the pics here ). Shame ‘s release dates are still TBA, but members can see more from Carey Mulligan right now here at MrSkin.com!

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Postcard from Venice: Fassbender Brings Glory to Shame; Pacino Reigns in Wilde Salome

When Steve McQueen’s Hunger debuted at Cannes in 2008, Michael Fassbender — playing Irish hunger-strike activist Bobby Sands — was a revelation. Now he’s ubiquitous, potentially to the point of overexposure, appearing in comic-book blockbusters ( X-Men: First Class ) and tony literary adaptations ( Jane Eyre ) alike. Yet each performance, and each project, is so different from the last that it’s still a joy to watch him. He has one of the gifts that great actors need, the ability to be focused and unselfconscious at the same time. He knows when to surrender and when to call every muscle and brain cell to attention. I fear someday he’ll win an Oscar and risk losing it all.

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Descendants, Dangerous Method Lead 38th Telluride Line-Up

Hey, look at that: Mere hours after allowing a brief peek behind the curtain at fest HQ, the team at the Telluride Film Festival have announced the line-up for its 38th installment, which gets underway tomorrow. In addition to unveiling the North American premieres of awards hopefuls The Descendants , A Dangerous Method , We Need to Talk About Kevin , Albert Nobbs and numerous others, the famously top-secret Colorado portal to the fall festival season will honor George Clooney, Pierre Étaix and Tilda Swinton with its coveted Silver Medallions. Read on for the full program.

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New York Film Festival Unveils 2011 Slate: Clooney, Descendants Set For Closing Night

The Descendants , the much-anticipated collaboration between George Clooney and director Alexander Payne, was announced today as the closing-night selection of the 49th New York Film Festival. The movie will join 26 others in this year’s program, an intriguing blend that includes apocalypse films from both Abel Ferrara and Lars von Trier, a doubly oversexed Michael Fassbender and Martin Scorsese’s latest musical documentary. Read on for the full slate.

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