Screening Room: Ryan Gosling's Crazy Tattoos, and Early Predictions for Best Actor Oscar


From left: Channing Tatum, Ryan Gosling, Mila Kunis. (Getty Images | StudioCanal | Pacific Coast News)
Trailer of the Week
Lincoln

Finally some footage from Steven Spielberg's highly anticipated Lincoln, starring Daniel Day-Lewis as the eponymous 16th president. Expectations are sky-high for this one and for Day-Lewis, whose tranformation into Abraham Lincoln looks nothing short of amazing. Day-Lewis rarely disappoints so Oscar is the word once again for the celebrated English-Irish thespian. He already has two Best Actor statues on his mantle for My Left Foot and There Will Be Blood. Time will tell if he will collect a third. He certainly rules the trailer:



On Set Photo of the Week
The Thors

Chris Hemsworth was snapped working closely with his body double while filming Thor: The Dark World this week. Who's got a hankering for some Doublemint gum?

Chris Hemsworth and His Body Double on Set
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ShowBiz Buzz
A tattooed Gosling in Pines, Magic Mike 2?


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Box Office Top 10
1. The Possession: $9.5M (weekend), $33M (gross)
2. Lawless: $6M, $23M
3. The Words: $5M, $5M
4. The Expendables 2: $5M, $75M
5. The Bourne Legacy: $4M, $104M
6. ParaNorman: $4M, $45M
7. The Odd Life of Timothy Green: $4M, $43M
8. The Campaign: $3.5M, $80M
9. The Dark Knight Rises: $3M, $438M
10. 2016: Obama's America: $3M, $26M
  • Redcarpetdiary has the first clips (see below) of Ryan Gosling in The Place Beyond the Pines, which debuted this week at the Toronto International Film Festival, and dude looks crazy. Covered in homemade tattoos, Gosling confers with partner Robin (Animal Kingdom's Ben Mendelsohn) about robbing a bank. Directed by Derek Cianfrance (Blue Valentine), Pines will be released sometime in 2013.


  • Slashfilm has a story about the possibilities of Channing Tatum making a Magic Mike 2. In an interview with a German film website, Tatum and writer Reid Carolin expressed their desire to continue the story of the "cock-rocking kings of Tampa" as a road film. Interesting, but they'd better get Steven Soderbergh on board first. Magic Mike worked largely because of the director's credibility.



On Set Photo of the Week 2
Kunis scrubs it up

Mila Kunis sports hospital scrubs and a long trench coat while filming The Angriest Man in Brooklyn this week. The film co-stars Robin Williams and Peter Dinklage, and tells the story of a man trying to determine what to do with the final days of his life.

Mila Kunis Films 'The Angriest Man in Brooklyn'
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Oscar Watch 2013
Best Actor contenders


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We've studied the list of Best Actresses so it's now time to focus on the actors. Leading the way is the one-two punch of Joaquin Phoenix and Phillip Seymour Hoffman in The Master. Phoenix is the surer bet to land an Oscar nod at this point, but Hoffman is fantastic as well. It's not unheard of for two actors from the same movie to be nominated for Best Actor (It's happened 11 times), but it hasn't happened since 1983 when F. Murray Abraham and Tom Hulce were both nominated for Amadeus (Abraham won).

Other Best Actor contenders include Daniel Day-Lewis in Lincoln, Denzel Washington in Flight, and Bill Murray in Hyde Park on Hudson. It's obviously still very early and these predictions are speculative, but based on festival reviews, the Academy's tendency to lend weight to performances in biopics, and the star power of the actors themselves, it's only common sense to look down the road at who the legitimate contenders are. Here's my full list, ranked in order of nomination likelihood:

1. Daniel Day-Lewis - Lincoln
2. Joaquin Phoenix - The Master
3. Phillip Seymour Hoffman - The Master
4. Denzel Washington - Flight
5. Bill Murray - Hyde Park on Hudson
6. John Hawkes - The Sessions
7. Jean-Louis Trintignant - Amour
8. Matthias Schoenaerts - Rust and Bone
9. Richard Gere - Arbitrage
10. Joseph Gordon-Levitt - Looper

2013 Best Picture Nominee Predictions

  1. Lincoln
  2. The Master
  3. Anna Karenina
  4. Amour
  5. Beasts of the Southern Wild
  6. Les Miserables
  7. Moonrise Kingdom
  8. Life of Pi
  9. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey 
  10. Django Unchained

Best Actress Oscar Nominee Predictions

1. Quvenzhane Wallis - Beasts of the Southern Wild
2. Helen Hunt - The Sessions
3. Marion Cotillard - Rust & Bone
4. Keira Knightley - Anna Karenina
5. Laura Linney - Hyde Park on Hudson
6. Emmanuelle Riva - Amour
7. Michelle Williams - Take This Waltz
8. Viola Davis - Won't Back Down
9. Amy Adams - Trouble with the Curve
10. Halle Berry - Cloud Atlas


See more photos of Mila Kunis here:
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  • Mila Kunis in Mila Kunis Leaves Spinning Class
  • Mila Kunis in Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher Out to See "Batman"
  • Mila Kunis in "Family Guy" Panel Discussion - Comic-Con International 2012
  • Mila Kunis in Walt Disney Studios: "Frankenweenie," "Wreck It Ralph" And "Oz" Press Line - Comic-Con International 2012
  • Mila Kunis in Comic-Con International 2012 - Walt Disney Studios Panels
  • Mila Kunis in Mila Kunis At A Dance Studio In Studio City
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