Links Episode 14,000,000,000
Tuesday, February 8, 2011 at 7:41PM 
Film "How classicaly trained are this year's acting nominees?" Cool topic, don't you think?
Austin Translation. Cuteness. Pixar was laying down new cement and they let their employees leave a permanent personalized mark.
The Wrap explains Oscar's weighted ballot again. It's much less complicated than people think. And voting a movie #10 doesn't hurt it.
Awards Daily is disgusted by a recent comment by an Academy member who is not voting for Melissa Leo.
Scott Feinberg makes a passionate defense of Melissa Leo, who he considers a friend. Honestly she sounds very cool from the personal anecdotes therein. I've met her only once so I have no stories.
Amiresque a dozen movies to look forward to in 2011. God, I still haven't even though of this.
Bring Mad Men Back sign an online petition. AMC is still jerking fans around. Why on earth are they letting their best show gather dust. This kind of thing can really turn viewers against a network and less committed viewers away from a show. I'm feeling the anger.
Cinema Blend Rosamund Pike is in talks for a Clash of the Titans sequel. Ugh. I want some meaty roles from her.
A Socialite's Life apparently Jude Law and Sienna Miller have broken up... AGAIN. Those crazy kids. Maybe they should star in a remake of Same Time Next Year because obvs they're fond of repetition.
Carpetbagger a disobedient anecdote on the scoring of The Social Network
Finally, you know that AMC is still doing that Best Picture Showcase/Marathon thingy they do each year, right? Even with 10 nominees, they're tackling it. Will you? Have you ever gone before? I'd try it one year except for that I'm always burnt out on the Best Pictures by the time Oscar night arrives having obsessed over them for five months.
Jude Law, Melissa Leo, Oscars (10), Pixar
Reader Comments (17)
NR when is that cute guy coming back? The person who writes Take Three – I just thought of a name looking the Jude Law picture – his ex – the raven haired goddess Sadie Frost.
Such a great article about Melissa Leo, and I believe every word. She seems pretty free of postering and b.s. So maybe she's a little daffy and not as nonchalant about this whole thing in public?
Plus, of the 4 frontrunners, I think her speech would be the best.
I need that movie Nick Hornby is apparently writing for Rosamund Pike like yesterday.
/3rtfull -- take three will be back in March.
Nat is "hit me with your best shot" ever gonna be back?
Amir -- affirmative. i need to relaunch everything. got too caught up in awardage.
While we're asking, what about the Actress Psychic? I think I got 4 of the 5.
In Melissa Leo's defense, the truth is that she's competing against non-cinematical factors like the cuteness of a teenager new to the circus whom everyone adores. So, no wonder she thought the award could also get away this year. The ads look terrible, though. I guess the worse part of it, it's realizing that the actors we like would produce terrible looking lavish glorified tv-movie productions if they were the ones making the decisions.
What happens to Mad Men? Any delay un the US means we'll still have to wait even more, as if the usual one season delay wasn't enough. :(
The Wrap link explains that the Best Picture Oscar vote is not a weighted ballot, it is a preferential ballot. Or were you trying to annoy Steve Pond by getting it wrong despite all his work to explain it? If so, this would only be apparent to those who follow the link.
Vaus -- i'm afraid i don't understand. I loved his article. It was the clearest least complicated explanation i've yet read.
I just don't understand how Melissa Leo, the frontrunner, could think these ads are a good idea. Any intern at a publicist firm would have known better.
And iggy is right, these photos are terrible and terribly outdated looking. Like some extra from an 80s TV series long gone by. Honestly, to me she looks like a lady whose heyday was decades ago and now tries to hold on to that fame, posing in the same clothes she wore back then. I bet that was hardly her intention.
Poor Melissa Leo, she gave a great performance but that is now being overshadowed by this supposed 'outrage' over these Consideration ads. So what if she is a bit eccentric and weird, its what makes her interesting to watch as a performer. She is like the anti-M'onique of this awards season and yet I feel in both cases the silly Hollywood politics is trying to overshadow the work.
I'd love to do the AMC Best Picture Showcase, but they're not offering it in Montréal. Actually, AMC is shortchanging its Canadian patrons: No BPS in Montréal nor Ottawa, and the only AMC in the Toronto area running it is out in the 'burbs. Whereas, there are FOUR AMC's in Kansas City running the Showcase, and AMC theatres in Dubuque and Evansville (to name just two relatively small markets) are doing it.
Rant over...we now return you to our regularly scheduled programming.
When she got nominated for "Frozen River", I sincerely thought that Melissa Leo would become another member of that notorious list of only one time Oscar nominees. I'm glad she didn't considering I loved her since "21 Grams" -and she's sensational in every single episode of "Treme"- but I think she went way over the line with those adds besides... they're so awful!!!
PS Hailee could really paquin herself and win the thing now
Interesting article on the nominees and there education. BUT have to take issue with the implication that Nicole was a "high school drop out". Here in Australia we have a School Certificate which is awarded to those who complete up to yr 10 (approx. 16yrs). Students who complete that then have the choice to go on do the Higher School Certificate and then on to tertiary education. But the SC and HSC are completed with formal exams. Nicole is not considered a "drop out" as she would have completed the school certificate before choosing to leave and look after her mum. Just saying...
The problem is terminology. Your introduction to the link says "The Wrap explains Oscar's weighted ballot again". The Wrap's article says "It's not a weighted ballot." (paragraph 5).
To those of us into ballots and voting systems, a weighted ballot and a preferential ballot are completely different things.
So although you read it and thought it was a clear explanation, you still gave it the wrong name.
I know it probably doesn't matter but I expect you can think of an example where it is annoying to see terms that you know have precise meanings mixed up.
Did you tag Jude Law as a joke? very funny.