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The countdown is on & VanRamblings is excited (or, we need to get a life).
In less than three months from now, Hollywood will award prizes for the best films of 2010, ranging from Best Picture, Best Actress and Best Actor to Best Screenplay and Best Cinematography. The ‘in’ for the avid moviegoer revolves around the fact that there will be 20 or more Oscar contenders for us to see at our local multiplex, an almost guaranteed good time in the theatre, serving to create a sort of welcoming camaraderie among all of those who’ve caught all of the Oscar contenders leading up to the Oscar ceremony, this year to be telecast on Sunday, February 27th.
There are a handful of Oscar bloggers who’ve created rewarding employment for themselves by dedicating a significant portion of their lives to coverage of the Oscars, and related awards activities, emerging as ‘experts‘ in the burgeoning field of Oscar predicting. That these very same informed bloggers have also come to have influence in the decision-making of the 5000+ members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences gives them a certain power that not only shapes who ‘wins’ the last Sunday of February, but in no small measure helps to set the tone for the kind of ‘Oscar bait’ films Hollywood studios greenlight or pick up at indie festivals like Sundance or Telluride. As such, for movie lovers it becomes a worthwhile endeavour to spend a little time reviewing the prognostications of these emergent and increasingly influential group of Oscar bloggers.
VanRamblings has listed these bloggers’ websites under the Cinema category in the list of websites to your left, under the title ‘Oscar Roll‘. We’ll write a bit about each blogger after the jump …
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