Food, Inc. Draws Criticism From Agricultural Community
The Academy Award-nominated documentary Food, Inc. has been strongly affecting many moviegoers since its 2009 release, but now a new crowd says the film is leaving a bad taste in their mouths. The National Corn Growers Association—one of the industries portrayed negatively in the movie—is encouraging American corn farmers to protest the film’s Oscar nomination, even though the Academy’s voting period has already ended.... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsPaste Presents: The 2010 Oscar Takeover
It's Oscar time, and while we don't always agree with the Academy's selections, we appreciate their efforts to highlight... read more
Found in: Movies, FeaturesReal Talk: Why the Oscars Love Actors Playing Actual People
For every Oscar winner, there are hundreds of supposedly surefire strategies for winning nominations and awards. Make sure you have a big, teary scene. Make sure you have a Weinstein in your corner. Make sure you’re James Cameron. Or, as Tropic Thunder so eloquently instructed, go “full retard.” Of course, you could also delivering a sensitive, nuanced, and original performance, but ha! Talk to Ok-bun Kim of Thirst and Julianne Moore of A Single Man to see how well that worked out for them.... read more
Found in: Movies, FeaturesWar of the (Alternate) Worlds: District 9 and Avatar Vie for Sci-Fi Supremacy at the Oscars
Fans of thoughtful, well-crafted science-fiction had much to be pleased with in 2009. Star Trek, Cold Souls, Moon: It was a movable feast of alternate realities and social commentary! And the dual crown diadems in the last of the aughties were, without a doubt, Neil Blomkamp’s District 9 and James Cameron’s Avatar.... read more
Found in: Movies, FeaturesThe Gold Man Cometh: Paste's 2010 Oscars Coverage
Boy, if you think we’ve got a lot to say about the Oscars today, just look at this select list (there’s more, if you can believe it) of stuff we’ve said about the Oscars and Oscar-nominated movies in the last year. We sure are chatty sometimes:... read more
Found in: Movies, FeaturesThe Oscars of Tomorrow, Today: Max Silvestri Sizes Up the 2011 Best-Picture Nominations
[Pictured: the star of He Nose Too Much; photo by Sean Edgar] Are we actually still talking about this coming Sunday’s Oscars? Boring. They are already old news. The oldest of news. See that newspaper there with all the articles about this year’s Academy Awards? Pick it up. Oh shit, it just crumbled in your hand like so much dust in the wind, due to age. See you at the crossroads, 2010 Oscars. (It won’t be long.)... read more
Found in: Movies, FeaturesIs 2010 the Year of the Noble Savage at the Oscars?
As the oft-repeated joke goes, all you have to do is be in a movie about the Holocaust, and Oscar night is yours. Kate Winslet made the crack on an old episode of Extras, and three years later there she was, winning her Oscar for The Reader. Perhaps not coincidentally, Inglourious Basterds has become this year’s most-whispered dark-horse candidate for best picture.... read more
Found in: Movies, FeaturesSlideshow: The Many Faces of Jeff Bridges
In Paste‘s review of Crazy Heart, Chris Willman concludes his analysis with this note about the movie’s star: “Let’s be thankful we still live in the real universe where Jeff Bridges is one of our very best major actors and, as a cherry on top of that, arguably our most likeable.” Indeed, Bridges, whose never won an Oscar despite multiple nominations in his lengthy career, may have his best chance this year in the Best Actor category for Crazy Heart. But what else has he starred in over the years? More than you might remember. Click through our “Many Faces... read more
Found in: Movies, FeaturesBig in Japan: How This Year's Best-Picture Nominees Fared Overseas
Americans took some hard knocks last year, and it quickly became evident which sectors were going to foible (retail, travel) and which would emerge “recession proof” (booze, movies). Yes, the American tradition of escapism has served both the Prozac and film industries well. We came out in droves to see flicks like Up, The Blind Side and Inglourious Basterds. And then there was Avatar. There’s hardly a word to describe director James Cameron’s 3-D box-office success story.... read more
Found in: Movies, FeaturesMake Me Over: Ten Movies That Should Have Won The Best Makeup Award
Ah, the Best Makeup category. It’s had a steady place on the red carpet since Rick Baker’s An American Werewolf in London won an Oscar in 1981. And while it may not get much publicity, theatrical makeup has been essential to the suspension of disbelief inherent to film and theatre for thousands of years. Here, then, are some of the best foam, fur, rubber and paint jobs that should have won Academy Awards over the last 30 years.... read more
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