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Donald Clarke

Whingeing about cinema and real life since 2009

Oscars

Daniel Day-Lewis, Jennifer Lawrence, Anne Hathaway, Christoph Waltz Klaxon noise! Klaxon noise! Oscar meltdown!
  • Oscars
  • February 26, 2013, 22:33

Screenwriter muses on his pathetic failure as an Oscar pundit.

2013-02-24 22.11.55 JDIFF awards end; some other awards begin
  • Oscars
  • February 24, 2013, 22:42

The various members of the Dublin Film Critics Circle have just retired after handing out their awards at the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival. Here is an image of one of the fine awards at rest. As you will not …

Where’s Quvenzhané?
  • Oscars
  • February 5, 2013, 21:10

Welcome to the latest Screenwriter quiz. The online editor has authorised me to hand-over a non-cash prize — non-existent, in fact — to anybody who can spot Quvenzhané Wallis, young star of Beasts of the Southern Wild, in this photo …

Affleck wins the DGA. Confusion continues.
  • Oscars
  • February 3, 2013, 12:38

Any suspicions that this year’s Oscars were about to take a turn for the normal were  confounded when Argo won the top prize at the Director’s Guild of America on Saturday night. Mind you, in any usual year, events of …

Sundance, SAG and the return of Argo
  • Oscars
  • January 28, 2013, 15:50

If previous form is any guide, we have, over the weekend, just got a few pointers to both this year’s and next years’s Oscars. The Sundance Film Festival ended last night by defying most observers’ predictions of the awards. The …

Mopping up at the Oscar nominations. Untouchable? Non?

Okay, first things first. Some mild crowing is in order. In my annual Oscar prediction post, I got 32 out of 39 picks correct. That works out to 82 percent, which I don’t think is at all bad. As far …

Five quick astonishing things about The Oscars (more tomorrow)

1. They allowed Seth MacFarlane to do a few jokes and they were reasonably funny. 2. Neither Kathryn Bigelow nor Ben Affleck was nominated for best director. Almost nobody saw that coming. 3. Amour made best film and best director. …

Final Oscar nomination predictions
  • Oscars
  • January 8, 2013, 22:51

It’s nearly that time. At lunchtime on Thursday, Seth MacFarlane and Emma Stone will announce the nominations for the 2013 Oscars. It’s a funny year. As I have mentioned in this place before, few recent Oscar races have featured so …