By Greg Hernandez
HollywoodNews.com: When you win both the Screen Actors Guild Award and the Golden Globe Award for your performance in a film, it usually makes you a front-runner heading into the Academy Awards.
Mellisa Leo, an Oscar nominee for ‘Frozen River’ two years ago, won the SAG and the Globe for her performance in ‘The Fighter’ then was featured in a series of “For Your Consideration” glamorous ads in Hollywood trade papers that has led to speculation that voters may have been turned off and Miss Leo may have hurt her chances to take home the Oscar for best supporting actress.
It would be a shame if something like that was responsible for denying this fine actress an Academy Award. She has been turning in superb performances in television and film for decades. I first took notice if her in the indie film ‘Last Summer in the Hamptons...
HollywoodNews.com: When you win both the Screen Actors Guild Award and the Golden Globe Award for your performance in a film, it usually makes you a front-runner heading into the Academy Awards.
Mellisa Leo, an Oscar nominee for ‘Frozen River’ two years ago, won the SAG and the Globe for her performance in ‘The Fighter’ then was featured in a series of “For Your Consideration” glamorous ads in Hollywood trade papers that has led to speculation that voters may have been turned off and Miss Leo may have hurt her chances to take home the Oscar for best supporting actress.
It would be a shame if something like that was responsible for denying this fine actress an Academy Award. She has been turning in superb performances in television and film for decades. I first took notice if her in the indie film ‘Last Summer in the Hamptons...
- 2/24/2011
- by Greg Hernandez
- Hollywoodnews.com
The release of M Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender has reminded me that, with few notable exceptions, most movies with 'last' in the title are really bad
M Night Shyamalan's latest release is always aggressively advertised as "An M Night Shyamalan Film" – perhaps to preclude the public's confusing it with "An F Night Shyamalan Film" or "A Film by Tilda Night Shyamalan". This is a generous, conscientious act on the part of the producers, but it is also a cunning ploy from the consumer protection standpoint, because it means that moviegoers who have voluntarily paid to see daft offal such as The Village or The Happening or Unbreakable or Lady in the Water can't turn around and say: "Hey! Why didn't someone warn me that The Last Airbender was an M Night Shyamalan film?" The minatory phrase "An M Night Shyamalan Film" is like a brightly lit road sign reading: "Serious Accident Ahead.
M Night Shyamalan's latest release is always aggressively advertised as "An M Night Shyamalan Film" – perhaps to preclude the public's confusing it with "An F Night Shyamalan Film" or "A Film by Tilda Night Shyamalan". This is a generous, conscientious act on the part of the producers, but it is also a cunning ploy from the consumer protection standpoint, because it means that moviegoers who have voluntarily paid to see daft offal such as The Village or The Happening or Unbreakable or Lady in the Water can't turn around and say: "Hey! Why didn't someone warn me that The Last Airbender was an M Night Shyamalan film?" The minatory phrase "An M Night Shyamalan Film" is like a brightly lit road sign reading: "Serious Accident Ahead.
- 8/16/2010
- by Joe Queenan
- The Guardian - Film News
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