[caption id="attachment_25027" align="aligncenter" width="624"] Common and John Legend perform Oscar winning song "Glory"[/caption] Last night should have felt terrible, at least for me. I saw the filmmakers behind two of my favorite nominees, Boyhood and…
Paul Giamatti for Win Win and Kim Hye-ja for Mother were among the nominees announced for the 2011 MTV Movie Awards...kidding. I'll never forget in 2002 when the MTV Movie Award for Best Male Performance…
It is finally back by popular demand - the Daily Trivia Contest at Film Misery! For those of you who are new to the site, here is the rundown of what this entails: Every day…
10:37pm: There it is! 4 wins for The King's Speech, 4 wins for Inception. View the complete list of winners by film below. A complete summary of the night will be coming either today or…
Every Oscar pundit reacts differently to Awards races that are particularly difficult to predict. Some react with frustration as things don't seem to fall into place and Academy members give no indication as to which…
The 83rd Annual Academy Awards are a mere four days away and Oscar pundits the internet over are compiling lists where every single individual race is over-analyzed. I thought I would add to the noise…
Read of the Day: In a piece entitled "The Day the Movies Died," Mark Harris comments on the difficulty original ideas are having to get made in Hollywood despite the success of a film like…
View the Oscar Charts for Best Cinematography One of the few guild awards that does not cross over with the Oscars very often is the American Society of Cinematographers. In the past decade only 4…
View the Oscar Chart for Best Art Direction The Art Direction category is particularly hard to predict because their guild makes it so darn confusing by dividing its awards into Contemporary Film, Fantasy Film, and…
Read of the Day: A bit of hyperbole in a major British publication on how The King's Speech has revived the British Film Industry. [The Guardian] News of the Day: Comedic actor Kevin Mars, who…
View the Oscar Chart for Best Original Score There is no established guild in the United States that recognizes the work of film composers, which limits the amount of precursor awards given for Best Original…
Unsurprisingly the big winner on the night of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards was Tom Hooper's The King's Speech. The Oscar favorite took home seven BAFTA awards including the ones for…
View the Oscar Chart for Best Adapted Screenplay Two of the most substantial awards of Oscar night are the prizes for Best Adapted and Best Original Screenplay. They are usually announced at a point during…
View the Oscar Chart for Best Visual Effects For only the second time since it was introduced in 1971 the Best Visual Effects category has five nominees. The addition of two new nominees to the…
The glorious day of Oscar nominations has come and along with it the roller coaster of emotions that goes along with seeing our favorite films recognized and snubbed. As I mentioned in the previous post,…
Predicted Nominees BEST PICTURE The Social Network The King's Speech The Fighter Black Swan Inception True Grit The Kids Are All Right Toy Story 3 Winter's Bone The Town BEST DIRECTOR David Fincher - The…
We are fewer than 24 hours from the announcement of the 2011 Oscar nominations, so it is high time for an eleventh hour predictions update. Despite the fact that my last predictions took place prior…
British filmmaker Tom Hooper's The King's Speech scored 14 nominations to lead the way at the 2011 British Academy of Film and Television Awards. The film was followed by the visually inventive Inception from fellow…
Film critics from across the country have been showing their hands with their annual lists of awards. Critics Circles, Societies, and Associations from Los Angeles to New York and North Texas to Indiana have doled…