By: Mike Scott, The Times-Picayune
Source: http://www.nola.com
Category: Film School Online
For anyone serious about filling out their office Oscar pool, it's not exceedingly difficult to correctly predict a majority of the Big Six Oscar categories. That's because the sheer number of pre-Oscar awards that mirror those categories make it easy to see which films and actors have momentum and support. Where an Oscar pool is won and lost is in the below-the-line categories -- those technical categories that don't get nearly as much ink. You know, categories like best sound, best score -- and best editing.
But here's a little secret: Of all the pre-Oscar awards, the American Cinema Editors' Eddie Awards are among the most valuable to watch, and for a couple of reasons. First, because history shows us that Oscar's eventual Best Picture winner is all but guaranteed to be among the films nominated in one of ACE's three major theatrical categories (dramatic, comedy or musical, animation). What's more, it's never been a film from the animated category. So there are clues to be had there.
Also, though, in the 12 years between 2000 and 2011, one of the winners in the three major ACE categories has won the best-editing Oscar an impressive 11 times. So if, when filling out your Oscar pool, you know which film won the Eddie Awards, you've got a leg up on the poor slobs who call themselves your competition.
All this is just a very, very wordy wind-up to say this: The 2012 ACE Eddie Awards nominations have been released. Find them below. The awards themselves will be handed out Feb. 18 -- a week before the 84th annual Academy Awards.
Source: http://www.nola.com/movies/index.ssf/2012/01/oscar_watch_why_you_should_car.html
Source: http://www.nola.com
Category: Film School Online
For anyone serious about filling out their office Oscar pool, it's not exceedingly difficult to correctly predict a majority of the Big Six Oscar categories. That's because the sheer number of pre-Oscar awards that mirror those categories make it easy to see which films and actors have momentum and support. Where an Oscar pool is won and lost is in the below-the-line categories -- those technical categories that don't get nearly as much ink. You know, categories like best sound, best score -- and best editing.
But here's a little secret: Of all the pre-Oscar awards, the American Cinema Editors' Eddie Awards are among the most valuable to watch, and for a couple of reasons. First, because history shows us that Oscar's eventual Best Picture winner is all but guaranteed to be among the films nominated in one of ACE's three major theatrical categories (dramatic, comedy or musical, animation). What's more, it's never been a film from the animated category. So there are clues to be had there.
Also, though, in the 12 years between 2000 and 2011, one of the winners in the three major ACE categories has won the best-editing Oscar an impressive 11 times. So if, when filling out your Oscar pool, you know which film won the Eddie Awards, you've got a leg up on the poor slobs who call themselves your competition.
All this is just a very, very wordy wind-up to say this: The 2012 ACE Eddie Awards nominations have been released. Find them below. The awards themselves will be handed out Feb. 18 -- a week before the 84th annual Academy Awards.
Source: http://www.nola.com/movies/index.ssf/2012/01/oscar_watch_why_you_should_car.html
