In a normal year, the day after Thanksgiving is kind of an official kick off to awards season. Voters have a stick of screeners to... Read More
Oscars
Last year, South Korea’s Parasite became the first non-English language film to win the Best Picture Oscar in Academy history but it started here first,... Read More
Best Director is historically an exciting and often surprising category as this Academy branch has often reached outside of the Best Picture lineup (whether it’s... Read More
How do you know when something is an ‘internet thing’ or the ‘real thing’? A few years ago, Jake Gyllenhaal seemed primed for a Best... Read More
Is Ben Affleck on the way back to an Oscar nomination? Affleck, who won the Original Screenplay Oscar for 1997’s Good Will Hunting (with Matt... Read More
Major category placements came in between last and this month for The Trial of the Chicago 7, Minari, One Night in Miami…, Supernova and Ma... Read More
Aw, nerts! We’ve got a new #1 this month and it’s Amanda Seyfried in Mank. We’ve had a few films feature early silver screen star... Read More
Things are looking promising… Emerald Fennell’s visceral and brilliant screenplay for Promising Young Woman made some commotion last week as another wave of critics screenings... Read More
It may only be November but this is a category that feels…dare I say, almost locked? There’s certainly some room, especially for that 5th spot,... Read More
I see a Midnight Sky rising… George Clooney’s space drama is popping up everywhere on my charts this month and with editing by Oscar winner... Read More