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2025 Oscar Predictions: MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING, ORIGINAL SCORE, ORIGINAL SONG, SOUND, VISUAL EFFECTS (November)

Erik Anderson November 13, 2024

The Oscar shortlist for Makeup & Hairstyling, Original Score, Original Song, Sound and Visual Effects (as well as feature and short film categories for animated,... Read More

The Parrot Isn’t Saying Anything: How the 2024 U.S. Election Has Proven ‘Under the Silver Lake’ to be Right All Along

Retrospective

The Parrot Isn’t Saying Anything: How the 2024 U.S. Election Has Proven ‘Under the Silver Lake’ to be Right All Along

Trace Sauveur November 12, 2024

Election fraud. A migrant crime wave. Immigrants eating pets. FEMA exploiting hurricane survivors. The Democrats controlling the weather. These are just a few of the... Read More

Adrien Brody, Guy Pearce to Receive Cinema Vanguard Award from Santa Barbara International Film Festival for ‘The Brutalist’

Erik Anderson November 12, 2024

The Santa Barbara International Film Festival announced today that Adrien Brody and Guy Pearce will receive the Cinema Vanguard Award for Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist at the 40th annual Santa... Read More

2025 Oscar Predictions: ANIMATED FEATURE, DOCUMENTARY FEATURE and INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM (November)

Erik Anderson November 12, 2024

The Animated Feature race feels squarely between two films and a classic studio rivalry, Dreamworks’ The Wild Robot and Pixar’s Inside Out 2, that goes... Read More

2025 Oscar Predictions: SUPPORTING ACTRESS (November)

Erik Anderson November 11, 2024

Dueling divas could be the narrative of awards season in supporting actress as child stars turned music superstars Selena Gomez and Ariana Grande both find... Read More

‘The Wise Guy’ Review: VHS Flourishes and Idolisation of 20th Century Gangster Films Elevate Generic Coming-of-Age Story | Belfast Film Festival

Connor Lightbody November 11, 2024

As we get further and further away from the technology of the past, filmmakers who interacted with it in their childhood are placing it central... Read More

AwardsWatch Podcast Ep. 260: Reviewing ‘Blitz’ and ‘Heretic’

Ryan McQuade November 11, 2024

On episode 260 of The AwardsWatch Podcast, Executive Editor Ryan McQuade is joined by AwardsWatch contributor Josh Parham to review Steve McQueen’s Blitz and A24’s... Read More

‘Gladiator II’ Review: Rome if You Want To

Film Reviews

‘Gladiator II’ Review: Rome if You Want To

Erik Anderson November 11, 2024

In the opening credits of Gladiator II, a rotoscoped animated retelling of the finale of 2000’s Oscar-winning Gladiator with Russell Crowe’s Maximus killing Joaquin Phoenix’s... Read More

9th Critics Choice Documentary Awards: ‘Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story’ and ‘Will & Harper’ Tie for Top Win

Critics Choice Awards

9th Critics Choice Documentary Awards: ‘Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story’ and ‘Will & Harper’ Tie for Top Win

Erik Anderson November 10, 2024

Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story sweeps; Sugarcane, Daughters, The Greatest Night in Pop pick up wins The Critics Choice Association (CCA) unveiled the winners of... Read More