Oscars: Shortlists to be revealed in nine categories on the same day
For the first time since 1979 we’ll have shortlists in Original Score and Original Song The Academy announced yesterday that instead of dropping shortlists in... Read More
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Student Academy Award Winners Announced
All Winning Films Now Eligible for Animated Short Film, Live Action Short Film or Documentary Short Subject Oscars The Academy has voted 19 students as... Read More
Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project Among 2018-19 Academy FilmCraft and FilmWatch Grant Recipients
Additional Support Awarded to Film Archives Impacted by Natural Disasters: Cinemateca de Cuba, Permanencia Voluntaria and Archivo de Imagenes en Movimiento LOS ANGELES, CA –... Read More
‘The Shape of Water’ is NOT a conventional Best Picture winner
I suppose it was inevitable. Almost immediately after Guillermo del Toro’s adult fantasy The Shape of Water was announced as Best Picture by Warren Beatty... Read More
2018 Oscars: ‘Shape of Water’ wins Best Pic; Jordan Peele makes history
After one of the wildest awards seasons in years; a strange combination of rubber-stamped acting winners and a completely up in the air Best... Read More
Did the Berlin Film Festival Kick off the 2019 Oscar Race?
The Berlin Film Festival ended yesterday after a strong competition lineup and a shocking Golden Bear win for Touch Me Not, an explicit film... Read More
From Timothée Chalamet to Rachel Morrison: 11 Ways the Oscars Could Make History This Year
Now I know it’s looking like a lot of these races are locked up but there more than a handful of things that could happen,... Read More
2018 Oscars : 6 Observations on this year’s Animated Short Film Race
Two weeks ago, AMPAS announced its Oscar nominations in all 24 categories and like every year, there were surprises and snubs. The Animated Short Film... Read More
2018 Oscars: 7 Observations on the 2018 Foreign Language Film Race
On January 23, the Oscar nominations were revealed in all categories and as expected, there were a few surprises in the Foreign Language Film category.... Read More
Is Daniel Day-Lewis a Phantom Threat in Best Actor?
[divider style=”normal” top=”20″ bottom=”20″] When the Oscar nominations were announced this week there probably wasn’t a bigger surprise than the huge surge and strength of... Read More
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