Even though a film may appear loaded for Oscar bear, it doesn’t take long for critics and the box office to transform it into a load of awards season bull.

Oscar season is somewhat like a Rotary Club bake-off. There’s generally a lot of talk about new recipes for success, and everyone excitedly looks forward to trying something new and perhaps a bit exotic. Yet when it comes time to hand out the blue ribbons, it’s often the most tried and true concoctions, or at least some slight iteration upon an old favorite, that carry the day. For example, awards voters have proven time and again their love for epic-scale productions (Titanic, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King … The English Patient), just one of many easily identifiable Oscar and Golden Globe trends. At this time of year, various pundits are well into the momentum – or lack thereof – of various actors, actresses and films. If a performer is lucky enough to score an early nomination or award (e.g. Cate Blanchett as Venice’s Best Actress, Juno as the Rome Film Festival’s Best Feature, etc.), it generally begets them extra opportunities, within the larger context of the odds favoring previous winners and honorees. Like Lions for Lambs opening this weekend, Reservation Road was on paper a film with all the essential Oscar bait ingredients. It stars Joaquin Phoenix – twice nominated for an Academy Award, most recently in 2006 for his turn as Johnny Cash in Walk the Line — and Mark Ruffalo, an habitual awards season flirter. The film’s female lead, Jennifer Connelly, was of course 2002’s Best Supporting Actress for her role in A Beautiful Mind.

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The third time’s the charm for baby-makin’ Mark Ruffalo.

The Reservation Road thesp and his wife, Sunrise Coigney, welcomed their third child, a daughter, last month.

Details on the stork delivery are virtually nonexistent, with the press-shy couple failing to disclose the girl’s name, vital statistics or indeed any additional information on the delivery, save for the fact it took place in Los Angeles sometime before the Halloween holiday. News of the delivery was first reported by People.

Mark Ruffalo and his wife Sunrise Coigney are celebrating the birth of their third child. The Zodiac star and Coigney welcomed a daughter into the world in Los Angeles. As Wenn went to press the baby girl’s name and date of birth were unknown. Ruffalo and Coigney married in 2000 and have a six-year-old son, Keen, and a two-year-old daughter, Bella.