AwardsWatch - 2019 oscars

2019 Oscars details including the set, ‘celebrity’ guests, performance by Queen and Adam Lambert

Erik Anderson February 18, 2019

With just six days until the 91st Academy Awards, the dust is still settling on the most controversial and mistake-riddled Oscar season in memory. With... Read More

2019 Oscars: Academy Reverses Decision After Industry Protest; All 24 Categories Will Be Broadcast Live

Erik Anderson February 15, 2019

After a truly wild week of social media uproar and industry backlash from actors, directors and editors, cinematographers and makeup & hairstylists guilds, the Academy... Read More

Interview: Mary Zophres, Oscar-nominated costume designer of ‘The Ballad of Buster Scruggs’

Erik Anderson February 15, 2019

Costume designer Mary Zophres had created some of the most iconic looks in modern movie history. From The Dude’s robe and sweater in The Big... Read More

Can the Academy Save Itself From Itself?

Erik Anderson February 14, 2019

It was one thing that film fans and Oscar fans alike joined forces to decry the Academy’s decision to move four categories – Cinematography, Film... Read More

2019 Oscar Predictions: FILM EDITING (February)

Erik Anderson February 13, 2019

Like Cinematography, Film Editing is one of this year’s category’s the Oscars’ producers decided to move to a commercial break and be inserted into the... Read More

2019 Oscar Predictions: BEST ACTRESS (February)

Erik Anderson February 13, 2019

I know some people want this to be a closer race than it is; that Olivia Colman’s BAFTA win is somehow a bigger factor than... Read More

2019 Oscar Predictions: BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY (February)

Erik Anderson February 12, 2019

Cinematography has been the cornerstone of film from its very inception. Before anything else there was the camera. From its birth on paper film to... Read More

2019 Oscar Predictions: BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS (February)

Erik Anderson February 12, 2019

While the other three acting categories seem pretty close to as locked as possible, Supporting Actress remains not so much a mystery but a real... Read More

Academy Reveals the Four Categories Being Presented During Commercial Breaks

Erik Anderson February 11, 2019

The Academy today revealed the categories that the viewing audiences will not see and will instead be presented during commercial breaks and edited into the... Read More