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A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit You know you are in the crux of Oscar season when you find yourself driving down the coast on a Thursday afternoon to host one of the Santa Barbara International Film Festival’s many, many awards-related events. That’s what I did when I hit the road…

West Side Story, one of the all-time biggest Oscar-winning films with 10 in 1961, christened the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences new series, Archival Revival – 25 Years Of The Academy Film Archive, which launched Monday night with the Robert Wise- and Jerome Robbins-directed classic. And if subsequent…

ANALYSIS: Even though the Robert Wise original musical West Side Story is about as sacred a cow movie as you are going to find, Fox has unlocked that movie title for a remake specifically because Steven Spielberg is interested in making it. No writer has been set yet and Spielberg hasn’t done anything more than…

Hollywood  has been busy this season celebrating the Academy Award nominees for Best Picture. Of 1961. Of course there has been lots of attention paid toward the nine nominees for Best Picture of 2011 too, but how many of them will we be talking about and still watching on big or little screens 50 years from now? Will…