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HANEKE WINS PALM D'OR

Palme d’Or:


AMOUR (LOVE) – Michael HANEKE



Grand Prix:

REALITY – Matteo GARRONE



Prix de la Mise en Scene (best director):

Director: POST TENEBRAS LUX by Carlos Reygadas



Prix d’interpretation feminine (best actress):

Cristina Flutur & Cosmina Stratan DUPÃ DEALURI (AU-DELA DES COLLINES/BEYOND THE HILLS)



Prix d’interpretation masculine (best actor):

Mads Mikkelsen JAGTEN (LA CHASSE/THE HUNT) (- Thomas VINTERBERG)



Prix du Scenario (best screenplay):

Cristian Mungiu – DUPÃ DEALURI (AU-DELA DES COLLINES/BEYOND THE HILLS)



Camera d’Or (best first feature):

BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD by Benh Zeitlin

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2013=2008? DAY-LEWIS AND COTILLARD AGAIN?

With Marion Cotillard as the first frontrunner this year with RUST AND BONE and Daniel Day-Lewis in LINCOLN with a great chance, I wonder: 2013=2008, when Cotillard won with LA VIE EN ROSE and Daniel Day-Lewis with THERE WILL BE BLOOD?

MARION COTILLARD STARTS OSCAR BUZZ

And so it begins. From Hollywood.com: The Oscars are eight months away, but the race has officially begun. After the Cannes premiere of Rust and Bone, the latest film from Jacque Audiard (the Oscar-nominated A Prophet), critics are already pegging Marion Cotillard as a possible contender for the Best Actress award. The Guardian is blunt: "Rust and Bone has to be a real contender for prizes, and, the odds will be shortening to vanishing point for Cotillard getting the best actress award." AwardsDaily suggests Cotillard's given her "second best performance," (the actress previously won the Oscar for her work in the film La Vie en Rose), while RopesOfSilicon describes her work as "one scene after another of sheer perfection to the point she turns Katy Perry's 'Firework' into an emotional epiphany." I don't know what that means, but it sounds amazing.

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OSCARS 2013: FIRST PREDIX

Last year, we already had Meryl Streep, Jean Dujardin, Glenn Close, Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer and Christopher Plummer in our early Oscar predix. Let's see if we can be accurate again. Our contenders are:

BEST PICTURE
1. THE MASTER
2. LINCOLN
3. DJANGO UNCHAINED
4. THE DARK KNIGHT RISES
5. ANNA KARENINA
6. THE HOBBIT
7. THE SILVER-LININGS PLAYBOOK
8. ZERO DARK THIRTY
9. HYDE PARK ON HUDSON
10. BRAVE

Possible: ARGO; TO ROME WITH LOVE

BEST DIRECTOR
1. Paul Thomas Anderson, THE MASTER
2. Christopher Nolan, THE DARK KNIGHT RISES
3. Roger Michell, HYDE PARK ON HUDSON
4. Steven Spielberg, LINCOLN
5. Kathryn Bigelow, ZERO DARK THIRTY

Possible: Quetin Tarantino, DJANGO UNCHAINED; Ben Affleck, ARGO

BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
1. John Hawkes, THE SURROGATE
2. Daniel Day-Lewis, LINCOLN
3. Bradley Cooper, THE SILVER-LININGS PLAYBOOK
4. Bill Murray, HYDE PARK ON HUDSON
5. Phillip Seymour Hoffman, THE MASTER

Possible: Tommy Lee Jones, EMPEROR; Matthias Schoenaerts, RUST AND BONE

BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
1. Marion Cotillard, RUST AND BONE
2. Laura Linney, HYDE PARK ON HUDSON
3. Viola Davis, WON'T BE BACK
4. Amy Adams, TROUBLE WITH THE CURVE
5. Helen Hunt, THE SURROGATE

Possible: Julianne Moore, THE ENGLISH TEACHER, Keira Knightley, ANNA KARENINA

BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
1. Leonardo DiCaprio, DJANGO UNCHAINED
2. Clint Eastwood, TROUBLE WITH THE CURVE
3. Robert DeNiro, THE SILVER-LININGS PLAYBOOK
4. William H. Macy, THE SURROGATE
5. Joaquin Phoenix, THE MASTER

Possible: Bryan Cranston, ARGO; David Strathairn, LINCOLN

BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
1. Amy Adams, THE MASTER
2. Jessica Chastain, ZERO DARK THIRTY
3. Anne Hathaway, LES MISERABLES
4. Jennifer Lawrence, THE SILVER-LININGS PLAYBOOK
5. Jacki Weaver, THE SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK

Possible: Sally Field, LINCOLN; Kerri Washington, DJANGO UNCHAINED

KODAK THEATRE IS NOW DOLBY THEATRE

From Huffington Post

LOS ANGELES — The Oscars will be in Dolby. The CIM Group, which owns the Hollywood & Highland Center, announced a 20-year deal on Tuesday with the audio technology company Dolby Laboratories Inc. to rename the Academy Awards venue as the Dolby Theatre. In a separate deal, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences revealed a new agreement to keep the annual Oscars extravaganza at the theater for 20 more years. "We are thrilled that Dolby is now the name of the theater because Dolby stands for excellence," said Tom Sherak, president of the motion picture academy. "It's a no-brainer for us." The posh four-level, 3,400-seat theater, formerly known as the Kodak Theatre, has been home to the Academy Awards since 2002. CIM Group dropped the Kodak name from the theater earlier this year after a bankruptcy court judge approved the early exit of 131-year-old Eastman Kodak Co. from a 20-year naming rights deal it signed with CIM Group in 1999. During this year's Oscar ceremony, host Billy Crystal jokingly referred to the space as the "Chapter 11 Theatre." Sherak said the motion picture academy, which did not immediately renew its deal with CIM Group last year, briefly considered moving ceremonies to another venue but decided to keep the Oscars in Hollywood. "We got a number of suggestions from people saying, `we'd love to have you,'" said Sherak. "We talked to them, and they gave us some offers that they would have loved to negotiate with us, but we stopped there because the board met and we decided we wanted to be in Hollywood with the awards show." Sherak said the motion picture academy has approval over the theater's name as part of the deal it negotiated with the theater's previous owner. No financial details of the new agreements were disclosed. Kodak previously paid a $3.6 million annual fee for the naming rights. Dolby, which creates audio technologies spanning from homes to theaters, said in a statement that it will use the Hollywood venue to "create a world-class showcase for Dolby's current and future technologies, beginning with the company's revolutionary new Dolby Atmos sound technology released last week." The 47-year-old company said it would began enhancing the theater's sound system this summer when the naming agreement commences. The 85th annual Academy Awards are scheduled for Feb. 24, 2013.

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