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Oscar Review: Awards As Bland As Oatmeal

  • By Caryn James
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  • February 27, 2012 12:28 AM
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Television
Well don’t James Franco and Anne Hathaway look better now? Last year’s Oscar show may have been a headlong collision, but at least a crash has curiosity value. This year’s show was as lively and colorful as cold oatmeal. You know it’s a dull show when even the Best Dead People “In Memoriam” sequence is chilly, unemotional and flat.
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More: Oscars, Academy Awards, Billy Crystal, The Artist, Michel Hazanavicius, George Clooney, Viola Davis, Jean Dujardin, The Descendants, Oscar show review, Meryl Streep

Jean Dujardin Drops By; Watch SNL's Charming Homage to The Artist

  • By Caryn James
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  • February 12, 2012 1:30 AM
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Television
OK, I surrender – if not to The Artist, to the charming, exuberant SNL dance sketch and Artist tribute starring Jean Dujardin himself.
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More: Jean Dujardin, The Artist, Zooey Deschanel, SNL, Kristen Wiig, SNL Video Clip, Berenice Bejo, Video Clips

Clooney vs. Dujardin: Can Subtlety Ever Win The Best Actor Oscar?

  • By Caryn James
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  • February 2, 2012 1:04 PM
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Awards
The Oscar for best Actor doesn't usually reward subtlety. Look at the past two years: Colin Firth won last time around for his stuttery role in The King’s Speech, while the year before his infinitely more nuanced and better performance in A Single Man lost to Jeff Bridges’ roaring drunk country singer in Crazy Heart. You get the picture: the Academy voters’ motto is We Love Big Gestures.
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More: George Clooney, Jean Dujardin, Brad Pitt, Gary Oldman, The Artist, The Descendants, Academy Awards, Oscars, Moneyball, Demian Bichir, A Better Life

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