Contender or Pretender Series: Unbroken
Welcome to Contender or Pretender 2014, a new Awardswatch series where, in each entry, we profile a different 2014 film and try to determine whether... Read More
Film
AwardsWatch’s 50 Favorite Performances of 2013
Yeah, it’s March but AwardsWatch has another 2013 list! It’s our Favorite Performances of 2013 and it was a hard fought, nail-biter with Oscar nominees,... Read More
Looking Ahead to the Next Oscar Race
With the body of the 86th Academy Awards just lowered into the ground and topped off with fresh dirt, there’s no time like the present... Read More
12 Years A Slave prevails, American Hustle shut out at 86th Academy Awards
After one of the most unpredictable races in recent history, in the end the film that everybody expected to win at the start of the... Read More
12 Years a Slave, McConaughey, Blanchett Win Spirit Awards
The Film Independent Spirit Awards, famous for giving out their trophies the day before the Oscars, looked an awful lot like an Oscar preview today.... Read More
Gold Rush Gang: FINAL Oscar Predictions
The time has come, for you to lip sy…wait, wrong show. This is it, the final stretch before the Oscars on Sunday and with it... Read More
Oscar Podcast #11: FINAL Oscar Predictions!
In this epic Oscar podcast, recorded February 25th, 2014, Erik, Ben, Kenneth and Peter discuss their final Oscar predictions, possibly change their minds in... Read More
International Cinephile Society winners: Llewyn Davis faces Adèle
For the 11th incarnation of their awards, the iconoclasts of the International Cinephile Society actually picked quite a few films that did well with other... Read More
AwardsWatch’s INOCA (International Online Cinema Awards) Nominations
AwardsWatch’s own awards extravaganza, the INOCAs, announced nominations for our 2013 awards with 12 Years a Slave leading the pack with 12 nominations. Gravity and... Read More
Captain Phillips, Gravity Share MPSE Honors
Captain Phillips and Gravity shared the two major awards from the Motion Picture Sound Editors last night, with the former taking Dialogue and ADR and... Read More
Interview: John Lithgow on ‘Conclave’ Being a Career Highlight, Oscar Buzz and Comparing Director Edward Berger to David Lean [VIDEO] 
Interview: In ‘Gladiator II,’ Costume Designer Janty Yates Turns Rome into Her Runway 
Interview: Production Designer Arthur Max on Rebuilding Rome and Filling the Colosseum with Water in ‘Gladiator II’ 
2025 Oscar Predictions: SUPPORTING ACTOR (November)