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Brian Cox for Coriolanus Coriolanus got raves in Berlin and Brian Cox was one of their targets: his performance as a cagey diplomat was so critically well-received... Everybody knows that Cox has appeared in a big couple of great movies but he never got Oscar recognition in spite of having an high-quality consistence work and good performances, but it may change with Coriolanus : if the movie gets enough Oscar attention, Cox may have good chances to be recognized by the AMPAS. He and Vanessa Redgrave delivered the best performances of the movie, by far, according to Berlin Film Festival reviews, but unlike Redgrave, Brian Cox's performance reviews were great but not THAT great and he may be put in her shadow... So, he and the movie may need a good Oscar campaign in order to have enough attention in order to Mr. Cox be able to get an Oscar nod in the Best Supporting Actor category (which seems a bit unpredictable category at the moment), but I believe Coriolanus will be really...

Glenn Close for Albert Nobbs After receiving 5 Academy Award nominations in the 80's, Glenn Close became, suddenly, an award snubed face in the film industry in spite of being a Great Actress... So what happened? Well, I don't know and to be completly honest I don't care, because it seems that she may have an Oscar comeback this year for Albert Nobbs . In the movie, Close portrays a woman, who dresses like a man in order to survive in Ireland of the 19th century. To be completly honest, Albert Nobbs seems one of those movies who are really risky: they can rule but they can also be a critical flop! So, Glenn Close seems to need a great critical reception in order to get an Oscar nomination this year, but she may need raves for her performance AND for the movie itself. Previous casting choices (Amanda Seyfried and Orlando Bloom) made me doubt about the quality of this project, but Rodrigo García already did a lot of great movies and made his actors deliver great performan...

George Clooney for The Descendants He may be hated by most men (like me), but Clooney is an undeniable movie star, with a great presence in front of the camera and an AMPAS darling, and playing a father with some problems in his relationship with is children while his family in on the rocks seems a really juicy, Oscar-worthy kind of role. Payne already gave a big couple of Oscar nods to his movie's actors (Jack Nicholson, Kathy Bates, Thomas Hadden Church, Virgina Madsen...) and this year's may be Clooney's time. He already is an Oscar winner ( Syrianna ) and got two other nominations ( Michael Clayton and Up In the Air ), he's really popular, he can act, the role seems promising and he has the Academy members' love! He only needs a good critical reception, because he has all the rest to get his 4th Oscar nomination. It's an obligation seeing him as one of the strongest contenders for a Best Actor nod! Leonardo DiCaprio for J. Edgar People are alrea...

The Adventures of Tintin: the Secret of the Unicorn Everybody loves Tintin! Everybody will love this movie... or hate it! In fact adapting a Tintin adventure to the big screen can be really risky due to the fact of taking a legendary book to the theatres. This one may be the animated feature of the year, so it would be a crime snub him. The music score seems amazing, the cast is delicious and it used performance capture technology. Steven Spielberg's name and the books make this promising, but the trailer makes it looking epic: I think the AMPAS will give The Adventures of Tintin: the Secret of the Unicorn  a shot at Best Picture and most likely an Oscar at Best Animated Feature... Coriolanus While most predictions don't include Coriolanus as one of the main contenders for a Best Picture nomination, the fact is that it is doing really well in the film festivals circuit and the critics like this movie. Plus, it stars a great cast composed by Ralph Fiennes, Gerard Butler, ...

According to Collider, " Paramount is finalizing an option deal to develop a feature based on Furious Love, an account of the public love affair of Hollywood royalty Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. According to Deadline, the studio is pursuing the project as a possible directing vehicle for Martin Scorsese. Paramount reportedly beat out several other suitors, including Natalie Portman and The King’s Speech writer David Seidler, to secure the rights to the book by Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger ." Well, after The Aviator , I think that Martin Scorcese would be a wise choice! The man has prestige in his own name, but it seems that he already is a busy man, with some projects like Silence and The Irishman waiting for him. But it's the Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton 's "love biopic", only a really bad script or too commercial producers would be able to make Scorcese say "NO"! Now, let's talking about the casting... for Richard Bu...

Genre: Comedy; Romance; Director: Woody Allen Starring: Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Marion Cotillard, Adrien Brody, Kathy Bates and Michael Sheen Release date: 20th May, 2011 " The dialogue throughout Midnight in Paris is also crisp and packed with levity. At one point Wilson attempts an aside, he hems and haws, before McAdams mercilessly cuts him off with a “That’s it? That’s the ending to your story?” to which Wilson parries, “That wasn’t a story, it was a detail.” But the main thrust and cohesion of the film can be found in all the ’20s action, an era Wilson visits regularly. (...) Sweet, sentimental, and vibrant, Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris rightfully points out that yesterday’s frolicking bar might be today’s laundry mat … but we can always visit the good times in our memories." by Laremy Lagel in Film.com " Mr. Allen is an artist brimming with vitality and imagination, always ready to explore new ideas. When they work, the screen lights up like a Yul...

 Don't you think this is the best trailer of 2011 if you excluse The Tree of Life 's? The music, the scenes (who makes the story remaining a secret) and the editing... GOD!