Lincoln (movie, 2012)

Fox wraps upfront deals, Gannett buying Belo.

2013-06-13 07:42:00

After the coffee. Before cleaning five days of mail off my desk. The Skinny: I've been listening to a lot of Jackson Browne lately. Might explain the somber mood. Anyway, back in Los Angeles after five days in D.C. I'll miss family but not the humidity....

CBS' 'Under the Dome' bringing thrills from King, Spielberg

2013-05-24 11:30:00

WILMINGTON, N.C. — Inside a 10-foot-tall cylinder a few miles from the beach, actress Britt Robertson is chained to a bedpost. The petite 23-year-old is being held captive by her (fictional) ex-boyfriend, a possessive young man named Junior who'...

Steven Spielberg, Bradley Cooper to team for 'American Sniper'

2013-05-02 13:30:00

Steven Spielberg is returning to the charged terrain of real-life American events, with the “Lincoln” director announcing Thursday he'll tackle the story of U.S. sniper Chris Kyle as his next directorial project. Bradley Cooper will star as...

'Pain & Gain': Why is it so hard for directors to shed their skin?

2013-04-29 08:25:00

If you follow directors' careers, you’ve often heard how hard it is for a so-called small filmmaker to go big. A few, like Christopher Nolan, have done it, evolving from intimate indies to studio tent poles. But it’s a trick infrequently...

Juilliard School honorees include Daniel Day-Lewis, Dawn Upshaw

2013-04-24 06:45:00

Daniel Day-Lewis will soon have a new role to obsessively inhabit -- recipient of an honorary doctoral degree from the Juilliard School in New York. The arts school said it also would bestow commencement honors this year on opera singer Dawn Upshaw,...

Utah, Virginia governors visit California to woo businesses

2013-04-13 06:00:00

Utah Gov. Gary Herbert and Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell were in California this week on a whirlwind tour to woo Golden State businesses to expand or relocate to their states. At the Westin South Coast Plaza hotel in Costa Mesa on Thursday, both state...

Joseph Gordon-Levitt seeks submissions to new collaborative TV show

2013-03-28 09:49:00

Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt turned to YouTube to announce a new type of television variety show -- one that draws from a group of online collaborators. Levitt wants to take this same style of creative collaboration he has cultivated online and, through...

New releases: 'On the Road' seeks a style both poetic, realistic

2013-03-24 07:00:00

On the Road Available on VOD beginning Monday Director Walter Salles, screenwriter Jos� Rivera and producer Francis Ford Coppola have given themselves the almost-impossible task of adapting Jack Kerouac's beloved Beat Generation novel "On the Road," a...

Oscar predictions 2013: Calling the visual crafts awards

2013-02-20 16:28:00

Gold Standard writer Glenn Whipp is sweeping through all 24 Oscar categories this week, assessing the races, predicting the winners and helping you prevail in your Oscar pools. He looked at the shorts categories here and the sound races here. Now he looks...

Now for real insight into Oscars -- by the guilds

2013-01-26 07:00:00

The academy liked "Argo," but not its director, Ben Affleck. The Directors Guild of America nominated Affleck, but couldn't find room for "Silver Linings Playbook" auteur David O. Russell, who, naturally, received an Oscar nomination for direction....

SAG Awards 2013: Tommy Lee Jones wins best supporting actor

2013-01-27 17:16:00

Tommy Lee Jones won the SAG Award for male actor in a supporting role Sunday night for playing the outspoken Pennsylvania congressman Thaddeus Stevens in Steven Spielberg's historical drama "Lincoln." Jones was not in attendance to receive the award,...

The Gold Standard: Bet a penny on Day-Lewis as Lincoln?

2013-01-30 14:12:00

"I am 10 years older than I was a year ago." We believe that's a line Abraham Lincoln said to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at the end of "Lincoln." Or it could be something "Lincoln" lead Daniel Day-Lewis wearily muttered during one of the endless Q&As he's done...

ORIGINAL SCORE: One of these years, 48-time nominee John Williams will win another Oscar (he has five, the last coming for "Schindler's List"), but it likely won't be for the beautiful, Copland-esque touches he brought to "Lincoln.

2013-02-22 15:38:10

DIRECTOR: Steven Spielberg. Perceived "snubs" aside, the directors branch did a nice job of nominating five distinctive filmmaking voices, even including a guy like David O. Russell who's adept at creating chaotic comedy. (The academy does have a sense of humor. Who knew?

2013-02-22 14:47:00

BEST PICTURE: In a year packed with so many fine movies, it's still puzzling how nearly every group bestowing awards has fallen in line (and apparently in love) with Ben Affleck's period rescue thriller.

2013-02-22 14:42:50