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Why Less Sex in the Movies is a Good Thing

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Happy Valentine’s Day! It’s time to get together with that special someone in your life and spend money you don’t have on garish rituals that would probably be much more romantic if you didn’t feel compelled to commit them out of obligation to a calendar and/or greeting-card manufacturer. I mean! It’s time to get together for a nice dinner and a movie — hopefully one with some intimate, even sexy moments between the characters onscreen. If you can find one. Which might be difficult. Thank goodness.

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Was Whoopi Goldberg’s Oscar Win Snubbed in the New York Times?

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The View has a bimonthly tradition (approximately) of making headlines, and the latest “controversy” is a wee one: Whoopi Goldberg claims The New York Times didn’t mention her in an article called ” Hollywood Whiteout ” about this year’s rather Caucasian field of Oscar nominees. It touches on Oscar history too, and Whoopi said that the failure to mention her Oscar win for Ghost hurt her “terribly.” Is Goldberg’s outrage warranted?

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Roger Deakins on His True Grit Oscar Nod and the End of Film: ‘Next Year Will Be It’

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The startling beauty of Joel and Ethan Coen’s Oscar-nominated True Grit — and in most Coen brothers films, for that matter — owes to frequent collaborator and award-winning cinematographer Roger Deakins, who’s lensed all but one of their films since 1991’s Barton Fink . But as much as the nostalgic Western serves as a throwback to simpler times, simpler heroes (and heroines), and a yearning to stick to one’s principles in the face of obsolescence, True Grit could also mark a wistful point in Deakins career — his last film shot on film.

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Roger Deakins on His True Grit Oscar Nod and the End of Film: ‘Next Year Will Be It’

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The startling beauty of Joel and Ethan Coen’s Oscar-nominated True Grit — and in most Coen brothers films, for that matter — owes to frequent collaborator and award-winning cinematographer Roger Deakins, who’s lensed all but one of their films since 1991’s Barton Fink . But as much as the nostalgic Western serves as a throwback to simpler times, simpler heroes (and heroines), and a yearning to stick to one’s principles in the face of obsolescence, True Grit could also mark a wistful point in Deakins career — his last film shot on film.

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Roger Deakins on His True Grit Oscar Nod and the End of Film: ‘Next Year Will Be It’

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The startling beauty of Joel and Ethan Coen’s Oscar-nominated True Grit — and in most Coen brothers films, for that matter — owes to frequent collaborator and award-winning cinematographer Roger Deakins, who’s lensed all but one of their films since 1991’s Barton Fink . But as much as the nostalgic Western serves as a throwback to simpler times, simpler heroes (and heroines), and a yearning to stick to one’s principles in the face of obsolescence, True Grit could also mark a wistful point in Deakins career — his last film shot on film.

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Game: Match the ‘Big’ One-Word Theme to the Film of the Best Director Nominee

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Looks like reduction is the name of the game today! Variety has just asked all five Best Director nominees to sum up their entire film with a one word theme. Well, all of the nominees except David Fincher, who, true to form , had his editors chime in instead. Anyway, just to get your brains fired up in the morning, take a shot at matching each one word theme to the films, which actually have quite a bit overlap… you know, when they are reduced to one word.

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Today’s Awards-Season Trading Card Star: Natalie Portman

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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 Actress nominee Natalie Portman!

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

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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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Oscar Index: Social Network, King’s Speech Resume Steel-Cage Death Match

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So you’ve probably heard about yesterday’s Academy Award nominations . Pretty interesting, if you’re into that kind of thing. And really, who isn’t? More importantly, who isn’t into Movieline’s Oscar Index, which went a respectable 30 for 35 in its inaugural attempt to narrow down this year’s nods to a science? Let’s break it all down — and see what it means for the Oscar home stretch:

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Late Night Highlights: James Franco Gets His Arm Stuck Under Jon Stewart’s Mini Fridge

Posted on January 26, 2011 by | Leave a comment

In today’s very special Oscar nominee edition of Late Night Highlights, James Franco celebrates his 127 Hours nod by getting stuck under a mini-fridge, and then lamenting the fact that none of his students recognized his Academy Award achievement. Elsewhere, Hailee Steinfeld parodied True Grit with Jimmy Kimmel and Tom Arnold consoled the Oscar rejects — that means you, Julianne Moore.

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