The Academy Is...

A day into my blog and I'm ripping off band names.

Anyways, September, which brings us the Toronto International Film Festival (or tiff., to be trendy) is almost over which means that Award season is ramping up. Just yesterday, The King's Speech won the People's Choice Award at the TIFF (Precious, one of last year's ten nominees for Best Picture, and Slumdog Millionaire, 2008's top winner, are the two previous recipients of the award). With a field of ten nominees, it may be safe to lock The King's Speech down as a guaranteed candidate. The film, which is directed by Tom Hooper and stars Colin Firth, fresh off of a Best Actor nomination, is of course a period drama about the life of King George VI who overcame his speech impediment and prepared to symbolically lead his country into World War II. The film, already frequenting festivals around the world, is set to make a limited release stateside on November 26th, 2010.

Another film that may be a lock in the top ten is Sofia Coppola's Somewhere, which last week bagged the Golden Lion, the Best Picture award at the Venice Film Festival, via a unanimous vote. The film, starring Stephen Dorff and Elle Fanning, is slightly similar to Coppola's 2003 masterpiece, Lost in Translation. Again on the topic of an aging actor, Somewhere focuses on

The Return

Yes, I am returning to actively updating this blog. As usual, the recent mark of absence is due to heavy workloads at school. While my third year is in full swing, I will try to make more of a presence this time around.