Last week, we had our first real taste of where the industry was leaning and it was for One Battle After Another. BAFTA kept the... Read More
Oscars
Last weekend the Make Up & Hairstylists Guild (MUAH) winners, where Sinners grabbed both period hair and makeup while Frankenstein took the prosthetic makeup award, to no... Read More
Last weekend, Paul Thomas Anderson won the Directors Guild of America (DGA) award for Theatrical Feature Film for One Battle After Another, moving one step... Read More
All is quiet on the western front this week with no changes across the board in the rankings from last week but that could all... Read More
It wouldn’t be a proper Oscar season without an old controversy made new, would it? Earlier this week, the inaugural issue of the California Post... Read More
No rest for the wicked (sorry, that’s my last one of those), it’s time for first Oscar winner predictions of the season. The Oscar nominations... Read More
Seemingly predicting the impossible with five films receiving 10+ nominations: Sinners (14), One Battle After Another (13), Frankenstein (11), Marty Supreme (11) and Hamnet (10).... Read More
With the Golden Globes handed out and most of the major guild nominations now complete, the 2026 Oscar race has fully taken shape. This is... Read More
What started a full year ago, at Sundance, winding through Berlin, Cannes, Venice, Telluride, Toronto, New York and Los Angeles, brings us to today. After... Read More
Mother. Truly the word, the subject, the theme of 2025 actress performances. Jessie Buckley, Rose Byrne, Jennifer Lawrence, Amanda Seyfried all took us to the... Read More

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