Django Unchained
More like the "Hated Six", the director confirmed that only six people knew about his upcoming film.
On March 1st four films open nationwide and will attempt to dethrone Melissa McCarthy's film "Identity Thief."
This year the Best Picture category sees 9 films competing for the highest honor. After Guild awards one film has emerged as the front-runner. However that film is not nominated for Best Director and that could potentially lead to a surprise winner on Sunday. Previous winners are "The Artist," "The King's Speech," "The Hurt Locker," "Slumdog Millionaire," and "No Country for Old Men."
The Best Supporting Actor Race is one of the most difficult races to predict this year as three actors have emerged as possible winners. The race is being disputed by five Oscar winners and four actors will go for their second while the fifth actor will go for his third. The last time an actor race was so difficult to predict was in 2007 when 4 Supporting Actresses split the top awards. Past Supporting Actor winners are Christopher Plummer (Beginners), Christian Bale (The Fighter), Christoph Waltz (Inglorious Basterds), Heath Ledger (The Dark Knight), and Javier Bardem (No Country For Old Men).
"Django Unchained' won its fourth straight box office overseas and became the highest grossing film for writer-director Quentin Tarantino.
The Producers Guild of America is thought to be one the most important awards for a film in order to win the Best Picture accolade at the Academy Award. This year, the guild chose ten films of which eight are nominated for Best Picture at the Oscar.
Jessica Chastain led the Martin Luther King Day box office weekend scoring the number one and two spot with her two films "Mama" and "Zero Dark Thirty." It was the first time since 1997 that a film star led the top two spots. That year Leonardo Dicaprio led with "The Man in the Iron Mask" and "Titanic."
"Zero Dark Thirty" scored the top spot at the box office beating out new releases "Gangster Squad" and low budget spoof film "A Haunted House."
The Golden Globes were handed out on Jan. 13 with many surprises shaking up the race as well as many predictable choices.
On Jan. 10th the Critics Choice Awards named "Argo" the Best Film of the Year. The film also received the Best Director accolade for Ben Affleck.
The Lionsgate slasher movie "Texas Chainsaw 3D" dethroned "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" at the box office. The movie earned the top spot with a gross of $23 million.
The director recently spoke of Tarantino's latest film, 'Django Unchained,' calling it disrespectful to his slave ancestors.
The Oscar Nominations are almost two weeks away and there are still a few categories that are up in the air. Usually awards precursors give prognosticators a good idea of which films or actors will receive nominations for their respective categories but some categories, such as the Best Supporting Actor race, are so full of contenders that limiting to just five is near impossible. Here is a breakdown of the supporting actor race up to this moment.
Twenty years after Quentin Tarantino unveiled his first film "Reservoir Dogs," the director has turned his eye to America's slavery history, spinning a blood-filled retribution tale in his trademark style for "Django Unchained."
Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained" comes out Tuesday Dec. 25 in wide release. The film features Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Samuel L. Jackson, and Kerry Washington and tells the story of Django, a free slave, attempting to save his wife Broomhilda from slave owner Calvin Candie.
