20 Weeks to Oscar – Charts

Best Picture Chart

BEST PICTURE Picture Studio Director Stars Comment The Films Most Likely (by release date) June 18 Toy Story 3 Disney Unkrich – July 16 Inception WB Nolan DiCaprio July 30 Get Low SPC Schneider Duvall Spacek Murray Oct 22 Hereafter WB Eastwood Damon Dec 25 True Grit Par Coens Bridges Brolin Damon The Next Tier…

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Best Actress Chart

BEST ACTRESS Actress – Film Comment Meryl Streep – Julie and Julia Carey Mulligan – An Education Helen Mirren – The Last Station Sandra Bullock – The Blind Side Marion Cotillard – Nine Gabourey Sidibe – Precious Zoe Saldana – Avatar Emily Blunt – The Young Victoria BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Actress – Film Comment Mo’Nique…

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Best Actor Chart

BEST ACTOR Actor – Film Comment Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart George Clooney – Up in the Air Morgan Freeman – Invictus Colin Firth – A Single Man Jeremy Renner – The Hurt Locker Viggo Mortensen – The Road Peter Sarsgaard – An Education Tobey Maguire – Brothers Christopher Plummer – The Last Station His…

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Best Director Chart

BEST DIRECTOR Director Picture Comment The Frontrunners For Nomination James Cameron Avatar Kathryn Bigelow The Hurt Locker Jason Reitman Up In The Air Quentin Tarantino Inglourious Basterds Lone Scherfig An Education Clint Eastwood Invictus Lee Daniels Precious Rob Marshall Nine Pete Docter Bob Petersen Up The Coen Bros. A Serious Man

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Best Picture Chart

BEST PICTURE – – Picture Studio Director Stars Comment The Frontrunners For Nomination 1 1 Avatar Fox Cameron Saldana Weaver 2 2 The Hurt Locker Sum Bigelow Renner Mackie 3 3 Up In The Air Par Reitman Clooney 4 8 Inglourious Basterds TWC Tarantino Waltz 5 4 An Education SPC Scherfig Mulligan Sarsgaard 6 5…

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Best Actress Chart

BEST ACTRESS Actress – Film Comment Meryl Streep – Julie and Julia Carey Mulligan – An Education Helen Mirren – The Last Station Gabourey Sidibe – Precious Marion Cotillard – Nine Emily Blunt – The Young Victoria Sandra Bullock – The Blind Side Shohreh Agdashloo – The Stoning of Soraya M Abbie Cornish – Bright…

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Best Actor Chart

BEST ACTOR Actor – Film Comment George Clooney – Up in the Air Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart Peter Sarsgaard – An Education Jeremy Renner – The Hurt Locker Tobey Maguire – Brothers Viggo Mortensen – The Road Morgan Freeman – Invictus Colin Firth – A Single Man Daniel Day-Lewis – Nine Michael Stuhlbarg –…

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Best Director Chart

BEST DIRECTOR – Director Picture Comment The Frontrunners For Nomination 1 James Cameron Avatar 2 Kathryn Bigelow The Hurt Locker 3 Jason Reitman Up In The Air 4 Quentin Tarantino Inglourious Basterds 5 Lone Scherfig An Education – Clint Eastwood Invictus – Lee Daniels Precious – Rob Marshall Nine – Pete Docter Bob Petersen Up…

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Best Picture Chart

BEST PICTURE – – – Picture Studio Director Stars Comment The Frontrunners For Nomination 1 7 Dec 18 Avatar Fox Cameron Saldana Weaver 2 6 open The Hurt Locker Sum Bigelow Renner Mackie 3 2 open Up In The Air Par Reitman Clooney 4 3 open An Education SPC Scherfig Mulligan Sarsgaard 5 4 open…

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Best Actress Chart

BEST ACTRESS Actress – Film Comment Meryl Streep – Julie and Julia Carey Mulligan – An Education Helen Mirren – The Last Station Gabourey Sidibe – Precious Marion Cotillard – Nine Emily Blunt – The Young Victoria Sandra Bullock – The Blind Side Shohreh Agdashloo – The Stoning of Soraya M Abbie Cornish – Bright…

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Best Actor Chart

BEST ACTOR Actor – Film Comment George Clooney – Up in the Air Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart Peter Sarsgaard – An Education Tobey Maguire – Brothers Jeremy Renner – The Hurt Locker Viggo Mortensen – The Road Morgan Freeman – Invictus Colin Firth – A Single Man Daniel Day-Lewis – Nine Michael Stuhlbarg –…

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Best Director Chart

BEST DIRECTOR – Director Picture Comment The Frontrunners For Nomination 1 James Cameron Avatar 2 Kathryn Bigelow The Hurt Locker 3 Jason Reitman Up In The Air – Clint Eastwood Invictus – Quentin Tarantino Inglourious Basterds – Lone Scherfig An Education – Lee Daniels Precious – Rob Marshall Nine – Pete Docter Bob Petersen Up…

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Best Picture Chart

BEST PICTURE – – – Picture Studio Director Stars Comment The Frontrunners For Nomination 1 7 Dec 18 Avatar Fox Cameron Saldana Weaver 2 6 open The Hurt Locker Sum Bigelow Renner Mackie 3 2 open Up In The Air Par Reitman Clooney 4 3 open An Education SPC Scherfig Mulligan Sarsgaard 5 4 open…

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Best Actress Chart

BEST ACTRESS Actress – Film Comment Meryl Streep – Julie and Julia Carey Mulligan – An Education Helen Mirren – The Last Station Marion Cotillard – Nine Abbie Cornish – Bright Star Saoirse Ronan – The Lovely Bones Gabourey Sidibe – Precious Sandra Bullock – The Blind Side Emily Blunt – The Young Victoria Shohreh…

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Best Actor Chart

BEST ACTOR Actor – Film Comment George Clooney – Up in the Air Christopher Plummer – The Last Station Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart Morgan Freeman – Invictus Peter Sarsgaard – An Education Viggo Mortensen – The Road Colin Firth – A Single Man Daniel Day-Lewis – Nine Jeremy Renner – The Hurt Locker Michael…

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Best Picture Chart

BEST PICTURE – – – Picture Studio Director Stars Comment The Frontrunners For Nomination 1 2 open Up Disney Docter Petersen – Still flying high. 2 3 Nov 13 Up In The Air Par Reitman Clooney Flight confirmed 3 4 open An Education SPC Scherfig Mulligan Sarsgaard Of age. 4 5 Nov 6 Precious LG…

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Best Actress Chart

BEST ACTRESS Actress – Film Comment Meryl Streep – Julie and Julia The unstoppable force. Carey Mulligan – An Education The ingenue of the year. Helen Mirren – The Last Station A role that could win her a second Oscar in just three years. Marion Cotillard – Nine The other one. Saoirse Ronan – The…

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Best Actor Chart

BEST ACTOR Actor – Film Comment George Clooney – Up in the Air Beloved, lovely, and looking for answers Daniel Day-Lewis – Nine How could he not? Christopher Plummer – The Last Station Could be the shock winner… lifetime achievement and a great role & performance.. and unlike some stage gods, he is a relentless…

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Best Picture Chart

BEST PICTURE – – – Picture Studio Director Stars Comment The Frontrunners For Nomination 1 Dec 25 Nine TWC Marshall Day-Lewis Et al The big buzz starts this weekend with the junket 2 open Up Disney Docter Petersen – Will the Disney turmoil put this in jeopardy? 4 Nov 13 Up In The Air Par…

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Best Picture Chart

BEST PICTURE Picture Studio Director Stars Comment The Frontrunners For Nomination 1 Dec 25 Nine TWC Marshall Day-Lewis Et al With all the trouble, still looking like the pedigree choice 2 open Up Disney Docter Petersen – Just have to keep reminding people that its okay to vote animated 3 Dec 18 Avatar Fox Cameron…

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It shows how out of it I was in trying to be in it, acknowledging that I was out of it to myself, and then thinking, “Okay, how do I stop being out of it? Well, I get some legitimate illogical narrative ideas” — some novel, you know?

So I decided on three writers that I might be able to option their material and get some producer, or myself as producer, and then get some writer to do a screenplay on it, and maybe make a movie.

And so the three projects were “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep,” “Naked Lunch” and a collection of Bukowski. Which, in 1975, forget it — I mean, that was nuts. Hollywood would not touch any of that, but I was looking for something commercial, and I thought that all of these things were coming.

There would be no Blade Runner if there was no Ray Bradbury. I couldn’t find Philip K. Dick. His agent didn’t even know where he was. And so I gave up.

I was walking down the street and I ran into Bradbury — he directed a play that I was going to do as an actor, so we know each other, but he yelled “hi” — and I’d forgot who he was.

So at my girlfriend Barbara Hershey’s urging — I was with her at that moment — she said, “Talk to him! That guy really wants to talk to you,” and I said “No, fuck him,” and keep walking.

But then I did, and then I realized who it was, and I thought, “Wait, he’s in that realm, maybe he knows Philip K. Dick.” I said, “You know a guy named—” “Yeah, sure — you want his phone number?”

My friend paid my rent for a year while I wrote, because it turned out we couldn’t get a writer. My friends kept on me about, well, if you can’t get a writer, then you write.”
~ Hampton Fancher

“That was the most disappointing thing to me in how this thing was played. Is that I’m on the phone with you now, after all that’s been said, and the fundamental distinction between what James is dealing with in these other cases is not actually brought to the fore. The fundamental difference is that James Franco didn’t seek to use his position to have sex with anyone. There’s not a case of that. He wasn’t using his position or status to try to solicit a sexual favor from anyone. If he had — if that were what the accusation involved — the show would not have gone on. We would have folded up shop and we would have not completed the show. Because then it would have been the same as Harvey Weinstein, or Les Moonves, or any of these cases that are fundamental to this new paradigm. Did you not notice that? Why did you not notice that? Is that not something notable to say, journalistically? Because nobody could find the voice to say it. I’m not just being rhetorical. Why is it that you and the other critics, none of you could find the voice to say, “You know, it’s not this, it’s that”? Because — let me go on and speak further to this. If you go back to the L.A. Times piece, that’s what it lacked. That’s what they were not able to deliver. The one example in the five that involved an issue of a sexual act was between James and a woman he was dating, who he was not working with. There was no professional dynamic in any capacity.

~ David Simon