Bejo's certainly the more likely candidate — the three - hour, sexually explicit «Blue»
seems less awards friendly — but despite Sony Pictures Classics «success with Riva last year, our guess is that Bejo will be more like Marion Cotillard and miss out on the cut.
Not exact matches
(If Annette Bening were to pull off a shocker, she'd be the first two - time Best Actress winner in the 17 - year history of the
awards, which somehow makes it
seem even
less likely.)
While this
seems more action - heavy like Fuqua's most recent film, «Olympus Has Fallen» and
less likely to rack up any
award consideration from stuffy Oscar voters, this looks like it's going to be one of the real gems this fall and a treat for action fans.
It
seemed that Rimington, who has written several spy thrillers, was smarting over the insinuation that «books you can zip through,» as one judge described the novels on their shortlist, are
less worthy of
awards.
In one bit of good news, United phone agents
seem just as angry about these changes as the callers, and are complaining to management in an attempt to get United to either make the booking rules
less strict or allow them to manually override
award prices during phone bookings.
Changes from IHG and Marriott
seemed less friendly to
award travelers, as the rate at hotels in popular destinations tended to go up more than down.
But DiCaprio
seems to be over the fair now that he's finally secured his Best Actor Academy
Award, and so this year Basel - goers had to settle for another Oscar - winner, albeit one of slightly
lesser renown: Adrien Brody.
In selecting the work from some 3,000 entries, Larry Walker, Xie Caomin and Martha Whittington, all MOCA GA Working Artist Project
award recipients,
seem to have been drawn to pieces that are more difficult to digest or
less crowd - pleasing than the typical lineup of «greatest hits.»
If the reasoning around the punitive damage
award was
less rationalistic, it would likely be
less objectionable: rather than trying to wash the inherently subjective
awarding of punitive damages with a patina of determinism, the Court would be better off simply acknowledging that there is little, if any, substantive content to their various pronouncements on the topic and deferring to the trial
award (they
seem happy to do so for so many other aspects of the law, both in this case and others, why not punitive damages
awards?).