2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions: PRODUCTION and COSTUME DESIGN (December)
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is storming through the guild nominations and it continues its hold of the top spots in both categories this... Read More
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2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions: MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING and VISUAL EFFECTS (December)
Not a lot surprises in what made the final cut for Makeup and Hairstyling or Visual Effects with the exception of The Irishman only making... Read More
2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions: ORIGINAL SCORE and ORIGINAL SONG (December)
Two more categories the Oscar shortlists gave us, Original Score and Original Song, showed some possible directions the Academy as a whole might be going.... Read More
London Film Critics Circle Nominations: ‘The Souvenir’ leads
The London Film Critics Circle nominations are out and Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir leads the pack with seven mentions including Film of the Year. Curiously... Read More
Phoenix Film Critics Society (PFCS) Awards: ‘1917’ wins 5 but ‘Joker’ takes Best Picture
Joker has been named Best Picture and Joaquin Phoenix Best Actor by the Phoenix Film Critics Society (PFCS). The WWI epic 1917, however, was the... Read More
Interview: From tactics to scale, Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes talks ‘1917’
NOTE: This interview discusses in detail several story elements of the upcoming Universal Pictures release, 1917, written and directed by Sam Mendes. An accomplished theatrical and motion picture director and... Read More
North Texas Film Critics Association Awards: Joaquin Phoenix, Charlize Theron, Tom Hanks, Zhao Shuzhen and 'The Irishman'
The North Texas Film Critics Association voted the biographical drama THE IRISHMAN as Best Film of 2019, according to the results of its annual critics’... Read More
2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions: FILM EDITING and CINEMATOGRAPHY (December)
With the ACE Eddie nominations in, Film Editing has become a very tight race. Separated into two categories (Drama and Comedy), we have 10 films... Read More
2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions: SOUND EDITING and SOUND MIXING (December)
With the nominations from the two sound guilds in: Cinema Audio Society (CAS – Sound Mixing) and Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE) we have a... Read More
Houston Film Critics Society Nominations: 'Marriage Story,' 'Once Upon a Time…' lead
Marriage Story, Noah Baumbach’s intimate dissection of marital disappointment, joins Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Quentin Tarantino’s epic exploration of exaggerated egos, to lead... Read More
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