Blog: THEME FOR GREAT CITIES

N ext year's Oscar contest is taking its cool, sweet time to come into focus. Usually, by late September, I can pull together a rough set of predictions, but after reports from the Toronto and Venice Film Festivals, all I have are sketches, a few scattered hopefuls. Fashion designer Tom Ford's A Single Man (pictured above: costars Colin Firth, left, and Matthew Goode), the Oprah Winfrey-Tyler Perry co-produced Precious , and Joel and Ethan Coen 's A Serious Man seem to be likely nominees in various categories, as does Jason Reitman's [...]