http://oscarprep.com The Academy Awards, with a focus on the acting categories and performance contenders. Oscar Nominees and Winners: for Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress___By Dana Kaminski___ Sun, 26 Feb 2012 04:13:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://oscarprep.com/2009/12/28/jackie-earle-haley-actor-with-success-then-not-then-success-again-by-dana-kaminski/dana-kaminski http://oscarprep.com/2009/12/28/jackie-earle-haley-actor-with-success-then-not-then-success-again-by-dana-kaminski/dana-kaminski#comments Mon, 28 Dec 2009 07:46:30 +0000 Dana Kaminski http://oscarprep.com/?p=423 "...Getting nominated for the Oscar and winning the New York Film Critics Circle and some others — I can't tell you how amazing that was. You want to talk about elation. To this day, it's still surreal. You know, way back in the middle of my huge, dark hiatus, which people didn't think was a hiatus, people would ask me, "Are you bitter towards Hollywood?"..."]]> http://oscarprep.com/2009/12/28/jackie-earle-haley-actor-with-success-then-not-then-success-again-by-dana-kaminski/dana-kaminski/feed 0 http://oscarprep.com/2009/02/22/why-supporting-actress-viola-davis-has-such-a-good-shot-at-an-oscar-win/dana-kaminski http://oscarprep.com/2009/02/22/why-supporting-actress-viola-davis-has-such-a-good-shot-at-an-oscar-win/dana-kaminski#comments Sun, 22 Feb 2009 02:23:20 +0000 Dana Kaminski http://oscarprep.com/?p=211 Viola Davis shows everything, in her character-restraining way of showing practically nothing. She is calm, and direct, and holds back with the dignity of a black woman who is confronted, unexpectedly; and yet is able to maintain composure. All the while, letting us, the audience, get a sense of her whole life. All the burdens she experiences. ]]> http://oscarprep.com/2009/02/22/why-supporting-actress-viola-davis-has-such-a-good-shot-at-an-oscar-win/dana-kaminski/feed 0 http://oscarprep.com/2009/02/22/movies-that-feature-the-oscar-academy-awards-as-a-key-role-in-the-film/dana-kaminski http://oscarprep.com/2009/02/22/movies-that-feature-the-oscar-academy-awards-as-a-key-role-in-the-film/dana-kaminski#comments Sun, 22 Feb 2009 01:48:12 +0000 Dana Kaminski http://oscarprep.com/?p=194 Subtitle of this post could be: "I'm MRS. Norman Maine"... See the film clip, at end of this Oscar Prep post.]]> http://oscarprep.com/2009/02/22/movies-that-feature-the-oscar-academy-awards-as-a-key-role-in-the-film/dana-kaminski/feed 2