Welcome to the latest entry of Contender or Pretender 2014! Our Oscar hopeful this week is Inherent Vice, Paul Thomas Anderson’s adaptation of the Thomas Pynchon... Read More
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In this Oscar podcast Erik, Peter and Richard discuss the Cannes Film Festival lineup for 2014 and how it may affect or reflect the Oscar... Read More
Oscar hopeful Jersey Boys from director Clint Eastwood gets it first trailer and boy is it bland. Getting the jump on the James Brown biopic, Jersey... Read More
The first round of 2014/2015 Oscar season poll results are up! Starting off with Best Picture, the top 10 vote getters by percentage of votes... Read More
France and Canada will battle it out at the 67th Cannes Film Festival this May with both countries getting heavy representation in the Competition slate... Read More
Hervé Chigioni and his graphic designer Gilles Frappier have based the poster design for the 67th Festival de Cannes on a photogram taken from Federico... Read More
Gone Girl, the upcoming Oscar hopeful by David Fincher (The Social Network) that was featured here recently in our Contender or Pretender series, stars two-time... Read More
HBO and Showtime have revealed their category placements for this year’s Primetime Emmy Awards and there are some head-scratchers. HBO has never been that much... Read More
Welcome back to Contender or Pretender 2014, an Awardswatch series where, in each entry, we profile a different 2014 film and try to determine whether... Read More
Boyhood, a revolutionary new film from Richard Linklater (Dazed & Confused, the Before series) that was shot over a period of 12 years and details... Read More

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Cannes 2026: Sandra Wollner’s ‘Everytime’ Wins Un Certain Regard Grand Prize
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