Enter Our Oscar Contest and Win Terry’s Toffee Academy Awards Mix
Feb26

Enter Our Oscar Contest and Win Terry’s Toffee Academy Awards Mix

The Atkin Report congratulates Terry’s Toffee, one of Chicago’s finest confectioners, on its 10th year backstage at the Academy Awards, supplying nominees, performers and presenters with a delicious selection of artisanal toffee created from a recipe by Terry’s grandmother. Enter our contest to win a one-pound box of Terry’s Academy Awards mix featuring four award-winning flavors: McCall’s Classic, Hazelicious, Chai-cago Spice, Lemon...

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Oscar Countdown: Writing the Script for Winning Original and Adapted Screenplays
Feb25

Oscar Countdown: Writing the Script for Winning Original and Adapted Screenplays

Although those they honor are considered below the line, make no mistake about it. The Oscars for both adapted and original screenplay are marquee trophies that can fast-track the career course of their recipients into Hollywood’s highest echelons, if they aren’t already there. Just think back to when an impossibly young Matt Damon and Ben Affleck won for ”Good Will Hunting.” Let’s take a look first at the adapted screenplay nominees:...

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Oscar Countdown: Original Song
Feb22

Oscar Countdown: Original Song

U2, one of the world’s greatest bands, is rarely if ever on the losing end of any proposition. But even Bono admitted– on the first night of “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” that an animated character was likely to take the Oscar in the category of Original Song. That would be one big golden trophy for the ultra-catchy “Let it Go” from Disney’s “Frozen,” with music and lyrics by Kristin Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez...

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Oscar Countdown: The Supporting Actresses
Feb20

Oscar Countdown: The Supporting Actresses

There are just 10 days to go before the Academy Awards are handed out in this awards season bifurcated by the Olympics. We will be taking a look at all the top categories as the last-minute campaigning goes down to the finish line for moviedom’s most coveted honor. For supporting actress, the contenders’ characters range from a blue-collar single mom to a feisty, bitter older daughter and an elderly yet extremely outspoken wife and...

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And the Oscar Goes To….TCM’s New Documentary About the Academy Awards
Jan31

And the Oscar Goes To….TCM’s New Documentary About the Academy Awards

It’s a documentary about the Academy Awards that could potentially be a nominee for best documentary next year –if it has a theatrical run. “And the Oscar Goes To…” will have its world premiere on Turner Classic Movies, kicking off the cable network’s annual 31 Days of Oscar, a celebration of the Academy Awards that runs from February 1 through March 3. “And the Oscar Goes To…,”  produced by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman with...

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