Posts Tagged ‘Quentin Tarantino’

Ex-Spouses Vie for Best Directing Oscar

Posted on March 5, 2010, 12:01 am, by Adam Spunberg, under Best Director.

The frontrunners for Best Director used to be married to each other. Kathryn Bigelow looks to become the first woman to win this Oscar for the low-budget “Hurt Locker,” while James Cameron’s big-budget “Avatar” was groundbreaking. Adam Spunberg likes Bigelow, but don’t count out Quentin Tarantino.

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Is this Tarantino’s Year to Shine at the Oscars?

Posted on January 26, 2010, 1:11 pm, by Michaela Zanello, under Academy Awards, Best Director, Best Picture.

Quentin Tarantino won a screenplay Oscar for “Pulp Fiction” in 1995, but his eyes are on a bigger prize. “Inglourious Basterds” is his best shot yet at Best Picture. Is this Tarantino’s year, or is filmmaker too violent and too unusual to win over the Academy? Michaela Zanello reports.

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