Oscar Watch 2008 Archives - The Playlist https://theplaylist.net/tag/oscar-watch008/ Sat, 07 Nov 2020 17:00:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://cdn.theplaylist.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/14214807/cropped-cropped-media-47-1-32x32.png Oscar Watch 2008 Archives - The Playlist https://theplaylist.net/tag/oscar-watch008/ 32 32 Taking The Oscar Temperature: Our Oscar Picks For The Week Of October 20 https://staging2.theplaylist.net/taking-oscar-temperature-our-oscar-20081021/ https://staging2.theplaylist.net/taking-oscar-temperature-our-oscar-20081021/#comments Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:05:00 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=9745 You know the drill. We hate early Oscar predictions especially when most of us and or all of us haven’t seen the films yet, however, 2008 has been the year of “if you can’t beat ’em join ’em,” for The Playlist unfortunately. If you wanna stay in the game, you play the game. That said, we have seen some great movies early at both the Toronto International Film Festival and the New York Film Festival.

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]]> https://staging2.theplaylist.net/taking-oscar-temperature-our-oscar-20081021/feed/ 1 Is The Chorus For Heath Ledger’s Oscar Dying Down? https://staging2.theplaylist.net/is-chorus-for-heath-ledgers-oscar-dying-20080717/ https://staging2.theplaylist.net/is-chorus-for-heath-ledgers-oscar-dying-20080717/#respond Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:24:00 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=10559 When “The Dark Knight” started screening earlier this month, some of the more breathless “critics” (we use this term lightly, these ones were on-air TV hacks) started banging the drum for the “Heath Ledger should win an Oscar” campaign. As were wont to do, we got annoyed at people making early proclamations out of their ass.

Then we saw the film and thought there might be something to all this Oscar talk as Ledger’s slippery and electrical performance, which evades a lot of predictable beats, was rather amazing.

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]]> https://staging2.theplaylist.net/is-chorus-for-heath-ledgers-oscar-dying-20080717/feed/ 0 Oscar Candidates Lagging So Far This Year? (*Sound Of Hand Smacking Forehead*) https://staging2.theplaylist.net/oscar-candidates-lagging-so-far-this-20080703/ https://staging2.theplaylist.net/oscar-candidates-lagging-so-far-this-20080703/#comments Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:14:00 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=10664 Jesus christ. It’s July! Are you new to this movie game? Is this some new trend none of us have somehow failed to observ? Not according to Variety’s Timonthy Gray who seems absolutely puzzled that there are no major Oscar frontrunners outside of the one’s discussed only because there is nothing to else to talk about (Heath Ledger as the Joker, “Wall-E,”), and lord knows the media will discuss the Oscars and posit away even when there’s nothing to discuss (Do you have a deadline?

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