Film

The November results of the Forum Oscar polls are out and recent critics award winner Spotlight is far out in front in Best Picture, Best Director (Tom McCarthy), Best Supporting Actor (Michael Keaton) and Best Original Screenplay. Good word on The Revenant has boosted it back up into the top 2 and Leonardo DiCaprio maintains his stranglehold on Best Actor. ...

  With the next big critics group, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, voting tomorrow it’s time to get some predictions out for a group that often searches to the left field for its wins. Interestingly enough, its last week’s groups, the NBR and NYFCC, that seem to have stolen a bit of LA’s winner thunder. Winners like Mad Max: ...

  The 1950s, 1920s, Shakespearian drama and wild, post-apocalyptic fantasy highlight the Costume Design race and its filled with big names like Oscar winners Sandy Powell, Jenny Beavan and Jacquline Durran. In fact, Powell is primed for yet another set of dual nominations, having dressed the actors of both Cinderella and Carol. Those two films are the top two contenders here and ...

The 1950s play heavy in this year’s battle for the Production Design Oscar with three films set in the period all aiming for that trophy. Steven Spielberg’s Cold War drama Bridge of Spies leads the charge but the female-led dramas Carol and Brooklyn both have a strong case for a nomination. All three films stand to grab a hefty haul ...

Long ago Film Editing always used to be very closely tied to Best Picture but in the last decade or so genre films have done very well here. Winners like The Bourne Ultimatum, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Matrix have won without the benefit of a Best Picture nomination. This year looks like a very Best Picture-heavy group ...

Although we’ve always our expanded predictions outside of the top 8 categories on main link under Predictions (just use the drop-down menus to 2015/2016 Gold Rush Gang predictions to find all categories) this is the first set of charts for the Gold Rush Gang 2016 Oscar predictions for Original Score and Original Song. Original Score is a particularly competitive category ...

  The National Board of Review will reveal their 2015 winners tomorrow and I have predictions ready to go for you right here. The NBR, although not film critics (as listed on their website: “film enthusiasts, filmmakers, professionals, academics and students”), were established in 1909 and are the oldest organization to give out film awards. They routinely are the first ...

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  Yep, we’re here. The kick-off to awards season really starts next week with the announcement of the 31st Film Independent Spirit Award nominations on Tuesday, November 24th. For all of the grief given to the Broadcast Film Critics Association and their Critics Choice Movie Awards for feeling like Oscar’s bastard son, over the last few years the Independent Spirit ...

  The cinematography category, like many of the tech categories, can seem to feel more like ‘Most’ vs ‘Best’ in terms of what gets nominated and wins. Subtlety of camera angles and placement is hard to get noticed when you have movies about space and post-apocalyptic worlds battling it out. Then you also have people that can be nominated on ...