WB HAS BIG, HARRY OSCAR PLANS FOR POTTER AND MORE…

I wouldn't bat an eyelid at Rickman getting a courtesy Supporting nomination, in the tradition of the likes of Alda and Holbrook.

No to Best Picture, but there's otherwise very few of the big awards I'd be opposed to seeing it at least get the nod for.

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Originally Posted by Andrew Merriweather 

I wouldn't bat an eyelid at Rickman getting a courtesy Supporting nomination, in the tradition of the likes of Alda and Holbrook.

Later that same day, Rickman commits suicide.

I didn't think Potter was going to be a major player before, but now? I didn't realize that the WB had so many potential contenders. That 9/11 movie and the Clint effort are going to be big dogs. Contagion, I don't know, but it will be helped by being one of Soderbergh's final efforts. Once those critic organizations start handing out awards, however, and they don't get behind Potter, the studio is going to have to make some choices, because there is no way they are paying for four fully-fledged award campaigns. The only way the WB is going to push Potter as an awards contender OVER J Edgar and Extremely Loud is if both of those movies are TERRIBLE and alienating to the Oscar base. Which is possible, though they both seem like ripe Gold Man Bait.

Final efforts?  Soderbergh has shot down those retirement rumors repeatedly HIMSELF in recent interviews.  He's basically shrugging it off as Damon messing with the press.  Besides, he keeps adding projects for himself to make.  According to the "rumors", he only had two films left to make: Liberace and The Man From UNCLE.  Thing is, Soderbergh has added two to that list already (Magic Mike and some untitled Mob flick) and has expressed interest in still doing a couple that were put on the backburner awhile back (Cleo and another Che Guevara film).

Steven Soderbergh isn't going anywhere for a long time.