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The Oscar nominations are out. Our only hope for a genre win in Best Picture is Hugo or Midnight in Paris, and the odds aren't in our favor. Biggest snub of all? Andy Serkis in Rise of the Planet of the Apes. More »
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The Oscar nominations are out. And it's sad year for the genre film. Inception, with 8 nominations total, is our only hope for a best picture win. Biggest snub of all: Daft Punk's Tron Legacy score. More »
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For those who missed the Academy Awards, here's the list of the 2009 Oscars winners. In case you didn't see io9's Oscar coverage, check out our postmortem and the new Iron Man 2 preview that debuted after the show. More »
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Despite a rollicking introduction from Dr. Horrible himself, the Oscars seemed a smidge muted tonight. Was this because Avatar got trounced? Or was it because the show was so damn long I had to zahelu with a bottle of Glenlivet? More »
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There's a lot to love about the Academy Awards: The glamor! The losers' barely-restrained disappointment! We'll have a round-up of the winners and losers soon, but until then here's an open thread for you to discuss (and complain about) everything. More »
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Everybody's obsessed with whether Meryl Streep will get her thousandth Oscar this weekend, but what about Stan Lee? He works hard too. And in this new Oscar-campaign video, he makes a compelling case for his movie cameos as High Art. More »
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How easy is it to write a Best Picture-worthy scifi flick? As easy as slapping tried and true tropes together to create a shambling drunken Frankenstein of a movie! Gird your loins for the most critically acclaimed scifi movie EVER! More »
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What's in store this week? New episodes of Lost, Caprica, Chuck, and the 82nd Academy Awards! Will the Academy crown James Cameron the King of the Cat-Men or blow him a big blue raspberry? Watch and see! More »
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The Avatar hype machine is roaring at a Wagnerian pitch, but even James Cameron's giant Ewok epic is handicapped in the 2010 race. Why? Historically, Oscar voters aren't scifi fans. Here are 10 of the Academy's most egregious scifi snubs. More »
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We checked in Oscar-nominated writer Terri Tatchell, the day after District 9 picked up four Academy nods. She talked about District 9 director Blomkamp's new project, her next scifi movie, and why this nomination is such a mystery to her. More »
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While we're ecstatic that Avatar's loathsome original song didn't warble it's way into an Oscar nomination, those blue aliens and a few others did squeeze out a few of our favorites. Here's a list of the biggest genre snubs. More »
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Hollywood has finally revealed the massive new list of Academy Award nominations — and a few other awards for "excellence" — this week. You'll never guess which nominations Land of The Lost and Transformers 2 snagged. More »
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The Producer's Guild of America, a key predictor of Oscar nominees, has released its Best Picture selections for 2009. Three of its ten choices were science fiction blockbusters, which could mean the genre is getting long overdue mainstream critical recognition. More »
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According to director Duncan Jones, Moon isn't being given out as a screener to members of the Academy. If this is true, and it seems so, this greatly hurts Moon's chances on Oscar night. More »
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Talk about adding insult to injury. Not only will The Dark Knight crew have to grin and bear it through the snubs on Oscar night, but they'll have to pay for their own drinks. More »
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The nominees for the 81st Academy Awards was released this morning, and while the genre movie racked up plenty of nominations our beloved Dark Knight was passed over on a few surprising categories. More »
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Variety reports that the Oscars are considering passing over Brad Pitt's performance in The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button for a Best Actor nod, because his acting was enhanced by special effects. Especially in the early scenes where he's an old-man infant, some critics say he's more of an animated Gollum-esque figure than an actual actor. Variety wonders whether Paramount did too good a job of exposing the movie's makeup and CG wizardry in the promotional campaign, and that biased Pitt's critics against the role. I found Pitt's performance in the film somewhat underwhelming, but it was typical of the types of performances that often win an Oscar. To deny him one simply because his performance involved special effects is misplaced snobbery of the worst kind. [Variety] More »
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The bad reviews and poor box office is one thing, but when Speed Racer starts getting ignored by the Academy Awards, it's time to wonder just what the Wachowski brothers have done to upset everyone. More »
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Whatever happens in other categories this year, science fiction is going to own the best feature animation category at the Oscars, mark my words. Fourteen films have been submitted "for your consideration" to get on the Academy Awards ballot, and the biggest stand outs out of the lot are all science fiction films. Could the best picture running be next? Check out the top contenders, below. More »
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Barack Obama's election as America's 44th President was a milestone in many, many ways - but did it really help The Dark Knight get closer to an Oscar win for Best Picture? We're not convinced, but that's what Entertainment Weekly is claiming, in one of the more unexpected examples of fallout from Tuesday's election. More »
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The Oscars will be all about science fiction this year — at least, if you look at the Awards ceremony poster. It was painted by celebrated poster artist Drew Struzan, who also created posters for The Phantom Menace, designed the ILM Logo, and was designated by Spielberg as "the only artist who was allowed to paint E.T." Recently he painted artwork for the new Blade Runner: The Final Cut DVD, based on his original artwork from 1982 when the film came out. It's not surprising that his Oscar poster depicts the golden guy in a sea of stars. Check out some of Struzan's amazing work in our gallery and find out more below. More »
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