This year’s Oscars have a healthy mix of clenchers and no-brainers, and the Best Actor award is one of the n0-brainers. Jeff Bridges is going to win, just like he won the Golden Globe. Also, Jeff Bridges is going to…

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As much as I hope Sandra Bullock doesn’t get it (on principle more than anything else), she most likely will win the award for her role in The Blind Side, in which she plays real-life person Leigh-Anne Tuohy. There’s no…

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Like the Best Supporting Actress award, this year’s Best Supporting Actor award is a giveaway — it’s going to Inglourious Basterds’s Christoph Waltz. Waltz, a relatively unknown actor, portrays Col. Hans Landa in the film, and he somehow manages to…

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It’s silly to think that anyone other than Mo’Nique will win the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. After her moving acceptance speech at the Golden Globe Awards, I’m sure that Academy members were dying for her to come to the…

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As a writer, this is perhaps my favorite category. As I said about the Best Adapted Screenplay, though, you can’t really tell who will win because you just haven’t read the screenplay. However, based on the merits of the film,…

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Predicting the screenplay categories is very difficult, especially considering the fact that we haven’t actually read any of the screenplays being nominated — at best, we’ve seen the films. However, judging from the films alone, there are several films I…

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In this part of our Oscar preshow, we’re going to take a look at the five nominees for Best Animated Feature, and dish on who we think will win.

As it is every year that Pixar has a nominee (which is…

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Since all the buzz this week will mostly be about the aftermath of the prestigious Oscars, it’s time to look at a film that should have been nominated for the big prize but was overlooked. I’m talking about Spike Jonze’s…

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Since the 82nd Annual Academy Awards will be held tonight at 8:30/7:30c, MovieOvermind will be bringing you live coverage of the event. An individual article will be posted after every major award, detailing our opinion about the winner and who…

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Be careful! If you haven’t seen Wanted and do not wish to be spoiled, do not read on.

One of the strangest action films of last year was Wanted 2 a loose adaptation of the Mark Millar graphic novel of the same name.…

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Here’s a good idea: when campaigning for the Academy Awards, don’t insult the other film. After all, the awards are based on merit, right?

Well, they’re based on politics, really, but that doesn’t mean that you can’t go too far with the…

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