Film Awards

The Third Voyage of Thor: Kon-Tiki is a grand story, told again

Take Your Best Picture Alongside Oscar

Contest: Pick the Oscars® Winners, Win a Night for Two in the Loop

With the 2013 Academy Awards (Sunday, February 24) a month out, we've decided to hold this contest in conjunction with the benevolent Joe Edwards empire for our fellow movie geeks. If you consider yourself a film expert (or even if you just think you could make a few winning picks), you could win ... More >>

2012 Village Voice Film Poll Results

View the 2012 Village Voice Film Poll

Tarantino, Alone: Hollywood insider, Quentin Tarantino tells of his struggle to make Django Unchained

Also Read: Django Unchained upends the Western -- and America's original sin

The St. Louis Symphony Just Had its Best Year in Over a Decade

In 2005, the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra was struggling: Labor disputes, falling revenue and diminishing credibility threatened the group, which has existed since 1880. It's safe to say times have changed: the SLSO is now world-class -- it recently returned from a successful European tour and music ... More >>

St. Louis Actors' Studio Cancels One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

For the first time in its history, the show will not go on for St. Louis Actors' Studio. The company's June production of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest has been cancelled. Refunds for tickets already purchased will be sent out in the next few days. Cuckoo's Nest was to have run June 12 through 17 ... More >>

Thomas Stockman Wins Two Rondo Awards for Vincentennial

Thomas Stockman masterminded last spring's Vincentennial, the city-wide celebration of hometown horror-hero Vincent Price's 100th birthday. There were lectures, film screenings, special guest stars, a live-action version of The Abominable Dr. Phibes, memorabilia shows -- it was pretty much the socia ... More >>

Academy Awards 2012: A Breakdown of the Two Animal Race for Best Original Song

Most people wouldn't care to know who prevails in a fight between puppets and animated birds -- unless they've taken some sort of hallucinogen. But that's precisely the battle set to be resolved Sunday during the latest iteration of the Academy Awards. The Best Original Song award this year is a tw ... More >>

T-Bone Burnett is Good at Winning Awards

Award season has been very, very good for T-Bone Burnett. The musical impresario has won just about every conceivable honor over his decades-long career, from a Golden Globe to a BAFTA Anthony Asquith Award. Heck, Burnett is only one Rugrats sequel away from capturing a coveted Nickelodeon Kids' Cho ... More >>

Love Is No Mere Child's Game

The Magnificent Marvin

July 15 is a very important date for the lovers of One Day

Justin Bieber Wins CMT Award, Becomes Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse

Courtesy of Justin Bieber Shrine​Sure signs of an impending apocalypse: 1. Locusts: Depending on what part of St. Louis you're in, you can substitute cicadas. 2. Thunder, hail and tornadoes: Done, done and done. 3. Justin Bieber winning a CMT award: Which he did, earlier this week, for his c ... More >>

Journal of Diminishing Returns

Cuckoo For Theater Buffs

St. Louis' Very Own Oscar Winner

image viaSt. Louisan and Oscar winner Colin Firth in one of his most celebrated roles: Mr. Darcy in the BBC's Pride and Prejudice.​Unreal has learned the hard way that we should read our New Yorkers as soon as we get them, because if we had, OMG, we would have learned that Colin Firth, Oscar w ... More >>

Mizzou Students In Running to Cover Oscars for MTV, And They Need Your Vote!

mtvU.comErica Coghill: C'mon people, send this future star to the Oscars. ​Daily RFT received a request -- okay, a plea -- yesterday from University of Missouri undergraduate Erica Coghill asking that we pass on the news that she and three other Mizzou students are finalists in MTV's Oscars Corres ... More >>

The Empire of Crime Strikes Back

Dance Into Her Heart

Loud and Proud

Steve Martin & the Steep Canyon Rangers

8 p.m. Friday, April 23. The Roberts Orpheum Theater, 416 North Ninth Street.

Feel the Push

Up in the Air Earns Six Oscar Nominations

Up in the Air may get snubbed on Oscar night.​Besides honors for director-and-screenwriter Jason Reitman, Up in the Air was largely snubbed at the awards shows leading up to the Oscars.This morning, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced its nominees for the Oscars, with Up in t ... More >>

After Disappointing Awards Show Weekend, Up in the Air's Oscar Chances Seem, Well, Up in the Air

Coming off two awards shows this past weekend, Up in the Air, the movie-with-a-message (loved ones matter more than your career) largely shot here in St. Louis, didn't fare so well.Director Jason Reitman went two-for-two in the screenplay category though, collecting awards at the Critics' Choice and ... More >>

St. Louis' Favorite Adopted Celeb, George Clooney, Hearts Haiti

Clooney filming in Lafayette Square last year. ​George Clooney was fete-ing the success of St. Louis-filmed Up in the Air at New York's Monkey Bar Wednesday night when he told The Hollywood Reporter that he will host a telethon to raise money for the people of Haiti.Clooney's program will run ... More >>

The year's 10 best movies and more: 2009 in film!

Up in the Air Leads Golden Globe Nominees

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association released its list of nominees for the Golden Globes this morning. Up in the Air (a.k.a. The George Clooney Movie That Was Shot In St. Louis) leads the pack with six nominations: Best Drama, Best Actor in a Drama, Best Director, Best Screenplay and two for Best ... More >>

On the Road for 70 Years

Counting Crows

8 p.m. Friday, July 3. Fair St. Louis, Gateway Arch and Jefferson National Expansion Memorial.

Aerosmith

7:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 10. Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre, 14141 Riverport Drive, Maryland Heights.

Gut Check: Winners and bloggers

Glen Hansard, Marketa Irglova, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Duke Spirit at the Pageant

Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, "Falling Slowly" from Once Wins an Academy Award

Eyes on the Prize

The Joy in the Bubble

Cannes 2007 was a success, but how many of its movies will you actually get to see?

The Sunshine Is Out Tonight

Various Artists

Sail Away: The Songs of Randy Newman (Sugar Hill)

Thank the Academy

Scattered Dour

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

Network (1976)

The finest satire ever committed to celluloid

Styx, REO Speedwagon and Journey

Friday, June 20; Savvis Center

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Moorer Better Blues

Nashville neo-trad songwriter Allison Moorer's sad songs say so much. Just don't ask her about her famous sister.

Series/Festivals

Week of March 20, 2002

Surround Sound

"Night at the Oscars" juxtaposes the music of the St. Louis Symphony with clips from acclaimed films

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 sight of a career

Hall of Mirrors

Catherine Deneuve shines in Place VendÔme