Film Awards

Susan Claassen becomes a fashion icon in A Conversation With Edith Head

A Hollywood stylist before the term was even coined, costume designer Edith Head was the imagination behind the wardrobes for hundreds of films. For decades, the petite, behind-the-scenes boss oversaw a majority of Paramount's clothing-design work, dressing stars like Elizabeth Taylor and Bette Davi ... More >>

Dressed to Impress

Oscar party roundup: where to watch this weekend in Denver and Boulder

With the 85th Annual Academy Awards going down this Sunday, February 24, you can certainly stay home and catch the Hollywood action from your couch and wallow in Joan Rivers' bitter, pre-show fashion commentary. But while watching the Oscars with Joan and your cat may be fun, discussing the best and ... More >>

Five things I freaking hate about the Oscars -- thanks to the Academy!

MGM studio exec Louis B. Mayer started the Academy Awards in 1929 as a way to bolster the image of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences -- and assist in mediating labor disputes. From that modest beginning, the awards ceremony has grown into one of the world's biggest annual media events. ... More >>

Simon and the Oaks looks like a good movie but never really feels like one

John Hickenlooper celebrates Colorado's Oscar, Grammy wins

Years before he won an Academy Award, filmmaker Daniel Junge was a barback at the Wynkoop Brewing Company -- and yesterday his former bosshosted a reception to celebrate not just Junge's recent Oscar win for best short documentary, Saving Face, but also Ryan Tedder's Grammy -- a real double whammy f ... More >>

Reader: Saving Face Oscar win hits close to home

Saving Face may be set in Pakistan, but the crew behind the film is from Colorado -- and they brought an Oscar back to this state after winning the best short documentary award. The team included co-directors Daniel Junge and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, producer Allison Greenberg, editor/producer Davis ... More >>

A day in the life of an Oscars novice, by Saving Face producer Alison Greenberg

Alison Greenberg was a producer for Saving Face and is manager of foundation and donor relations for the Denver Film Society. She wrote this first-person account of her trip to the Oscars with the crew of Saving Face, a documentary which won the Academy Awards for Best Documentary Short. BY ALISON ... More >>

Saving Face and The Descendants link Colorado to Oscar wins

Colorado-based filmmaker Daniel Junge won an Oscar tonight for Saving Face, the short documentary film that follows a Pakistani plastic surgeon dedicated to performing reconstructive surgery on women who've been attacked with acid. Read an interview with Junge about Saving Face.

Daniel Junge on his Oscar nomination, Saving Face, and the Colorado film industry

​This isn't Daniel Junge's first trip to the Oscars. The Colorado-based filmmaker was nominated for an Academy Award in 2010 for his documentary The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner; this time he's nominated in the Documentary Short category for Saving Face, a film that follows a Pakist ... More >>

Reel Social Club brings fashion and film together over mimosas this Oscar weekend

​Red carpet appearances by designer gown-donning stars are just as much a part of the Academy Awards spectacle as the Oscars themselves. In advance of this coming weekend's 84th annual ceremony, Denver FilmCenter's Reel Social Club is celebrating this marriage of fashion and film with it's Seam To ... More >>

The Oscars: Five Denver area watch parties

Hollywood's biggest night is coming up on Sunday, and in honor of that most hallowed of cinematic traditions, we've compiled a list of the five best places to watch the Oscars in style.

Starz Denver Film Festival 2011: Five red carpet events, Big Night screening of The Descendants

"The Descendants."​Next Monday, October 17, the Starz Denver Film Festival's website will go live with the entire 2011 lineup, and it's a hefty one: a whopping 260 flicks will unspool November 2-13. But today, fest executive director Tom Botelho offers us a preview of the highest profile movi ... More >>

One Day doesn't offer much in the way of guilty pleasures

Ten people who should host the 2012 Oscars

At least they make decent movies.​Is it time to already begin thinking about next year's Academy Awards show? Well, if you're like most Americans -- and critics, the venerable Roger Ebert among them -- who watched last night's show, then the answer is "yes." The hipster hosts, 28-year-old An ... More >>

Oscars 2011: Live-blogging the self-congratulatory golden phallus ceremonies

They've been doing this for EIGHTY-THREE years?!?​ There are a lot of things more important than watching and liveblogging the 2011 Academy Awards - but none of them are things we have to do today. Look for our recap after the show!

Oscars 2011: The red-carpet fashion of the stars

Black Swan's Natalie Portman.​The best part of the annual Academy Awards is arguably the red-carpet fashion, and this year, stars were showcasing a variety of couture gowns. Bright reds and tangerines dominated the pre-Oscar parade, with some purple trimming and light, ethereal dresses to coun ... More >>

Top 10 list of Colorado movies a ten-cent ticket fee didn't subsidize

"The Searchers."​The Colorado legislature just nixed a plan to tack a ten-cent fee onto movie tickets, money that would have been used to provide financial incentives for film companies that want to make movies in this state. As revised, the bill would now ask for donations from movie-goers -- ... More >>

Oscars 2011: The Fighter shows that the Academy establishment is changing

Oscars vs. Razzies: What does better at the box office?

​This weekend, the best and worst of 2010 in film will be categorically determined (right...) by the Academy and Golden Raspberry Awards, respectively. And while statues are nice, everyone knows that money guides filmmaking to a much greater degree than accolades. So we were wondering -- does ... More >>

A Reel Good Time

How to make an Oscar-winning film: a flow chart

​The Oscar Nominations are out for this year and, as in all years that have preceded it, this one offers no surprises. It's a relatively unknown fact, but there is a very specific formula for making an Oscar nominated film -- so specific, in fact, we've made a flow chart that plots in out in d ... More >>

Oscar nominations for Best Picture: 2011 vs. 2010

​The Academy Award nominations are out and they're pretty much what you expected: The King's Speech, Black Swan, The Social Network, etc. This is the second year of the expanded ten movie Best Picture category. And as these things go, the ten nominees are not a bad indication of what stuck wi ... More >>

The ten worst movies nominated for a 2011 Golden Globe

​The 68th Golden Globe Awards will be handed out this Sunday. It's a contractual obligation that all televised awards shows do not reward quality, and this will be no different; plenty of shitty movies will wind up being allowed to slap Golden Globe Winner on their DVD packaging. Of course, t ... More >>

And the Winner Is…

Precious nominations put Colorado in Oscar spotlight

Gary Magness and Lee Daniels share a "Precious" moment at the Denver Film Festival.​This year's Oscar nominations are out, and Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire earned six nods, including Best Actress (Gabourey Sidibe), Best Supporting Actress (Mo'Nique), Best Editing, Best Adapt ... More >>

Oscar Wild

Big Screen Bash

See all five Oscar-nominated best picture films in one day.

Q&A with Nothing But the Truth director Rod Lurie

Vera Farmiga and Kate Beckinsale in director Rod Lurie's Nothing But the Truth. Director Rod Lurie has had Colorado on his mind in recent years. His 2007 film Resurrecting the Champ, co-starring Josh Hartnett and Samuel L. Jackson (with a cameo by John Elway), was partially filmed in Denver and bas ... More >>

The Swell Season Caps a Swell Season

Oscar Night Done Right

Neighborhood Flix has the perfect party planned.

Glen Hansard Nominated for an Oscar

All I Want for Christmas

The AFI Top 100 Films -- And The Top Ten Movies Filmed in Colorado

Nicolas Cage: Woman Fighter

Life of the Party

X Marks the Spot

Scattered Dour

The Weather Man's a comedy, but not that kind.

Fat Joe

All or Nothing (Atlantic)

Flick Pick

Oscar Shorts 2005

Pop Quiz

Heaven and Helluloid
February 26, 2004

Up the Academy

The Oscar telecast has, for a decade, been Gil Cates' golden moment

Harden's Crossing

She's finally been invited to the Oscar party, but what will she do after the ball?

The Tired Gun

Or: Why winning an Oscar sometimes means losing a career

Best Oscar-night performance by a Coloradan

Trey Parker

The Fugitive Kind

Murder to Sit Through

Thrills for the week

Slice of Life