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Adam McKay puts it this way: "For the past four and a half months, 'this' is my career, my full-time job." The 'this' consists of promoting The Big Short on the awards circuit, a campaign that has encompassed hundreds of screenings (there's one tomorrow for members of Congress), at least 40 Q&A sessions in Los Angeles…

A new weekly column talking up the season with dispatches from the awards circuit. The lunch and dinner circuit that was so prevalent pre-Oscar nominations has now morphed into the awards banquet circuit, still providing lots of great opportunities for contenders to get their face time with voters who attend these…

Gold Derby’s Tom O’Neil and I go at it again in our latest Oscar Smackdown, where we try to make sense of where the race is now post PGA and SAG and just in front of the hardest-to-predict DGA Awards in years. What does it all mean for the Academy? Tom thinks there are three pictures in it to win it all — Spotlight, Th…

Mad Max: Fury Road and The Big Short were the big winners on the film side at tonight's 66th annual ACE Eddie Awards. Inside Out took the animated feature prize and Amy Winehouse pic Amy won the docu award during the American Cinema Editors’ trophy show at the Beverly Hilton. Nine of the past 12 Eddie winners for best…

6th &7th Update and writethru, 5 PM and 2:46 PM Monday with 5TH UPDATE, WRITETHRU, 5:27 PM PT Sunday: All studios have reported finals as of 5 PM. This weekend’s international actuals show a frame dominated by holdovers and expansions. And, for the first time since it released in mid-December, the No. 1 movie is not St…

Paramount’s late season Oscar entry The Big Short winning the Producers Guild’s top film honor, the Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures, was not a huge surprise to me. If it were a stock itself, the recommendation at this moment would be a definite buy. This movie has been…

The Casting Society of America celebrated its best and brightest tonight at the 31st annual Artios Awards. Honors were handed out from the worlds of TV, film and theater during simultaneous ceremonies in New York City and Los Angeles. Straight Outta Compton and The Big Short were among the films to take home wins…

UPDATE with complete list of winners: The 21st annual Critics’ Choice Awards were unveiled tonight in Santa Monica in 51 categories of both film and TV, with the Broadcast Film Critics Association and the Broadcast Television Journalists Association joining forces for one three-hour show simulcast on A&E, Lifetime and…

Ah, the perennial Oscar nom box office boost. Every year it’s debated how much of an impact Oscars have on a contender’s tickets sales. In the past, there were those years when a deluge of best picture nominees found themselves on DVD by Oscar night, thus refuting the notion that nominations have any impact at all…

A new weekly column talking up the season with dispatches from the awards circuit.  The BAFTA nominations were just released with their usual surprises and sure things, and with less than a week to go before the 88th Academy Award Nominations are revealed next Thursday. Plus, we have DGA on Tuesday, and before that we…

While it seemed for a moment there that movies shot on film were on the ropes, a surge in film stock-shot pictures has Kodak feeling pretty bullish. Check out the letter written by Steve Bellamy, the president of Motion Picture and Entertainment for Kodak, who hailed numerous films and especially Quentin Tarantino’s Th…

The USC Libraries have expanded into TV for the 28th annual Scripter Awards honoring the authors of printed works alongside the screenwriters who adapt their stories. Nominations in both film and TV for 2015 were announced this morning. Winners in both categories will be announced February 20 at the Edward L. Doheny…