12 Feb 2016

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FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION / FRAUD YOUR CATEGORY – How to Game the Acting Oscars

Sticky Post By Leigh Singer On February 12, 2016

 

Every movie awards season, the barrage of industry trade ads trying to solicit votes – sometimes for baffling causes – is coded by three simple, seemingly nonchalant words:

FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION

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FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION / FRAUD YOUR CATEGORY – How to Game the Acting Oscars February 12th, 2016Leigh Singer

19 Dec 2015

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Shadowboxing – The Making of Raging Bull

Sticky Post By Leigh Singer On December 19, 2015

It’s the best boxing movie ever made. It’s possibly the best movie ever made. 25 years after creating a legend, Leigh Singer asks how a punch-drunk Martin Scorsese, backed by Robert De Niro, got off the canvas to deliver the knockout of Raging Bull.

 

Labor Day, September 1978: Martin Scorsese is too sick to work, let alone celebrate the public holiday. Hospitalised after blacking out, he’s bleeding, by several accounts, from every orifice. Internally, too. Officially, a dangerous cocktail of Read more

Shadowboxing – The Making of Raging Bull December 19th, 2015Leigh Singer