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I have revealed my winner predictions for the 91st Academy Awards in all 24 categories (which you can find here) and I include them all here but now also unveil what and who I think should win and should have been nominated in the craziest Oscar year I can remember. BEST PICTUREWill win: RomaShould win: RomaShould have been nominated: If …

Roma (Netflix) Here we are. After the most tumultuous Oscar season in memory, the biggest award of the night, Best Picture, is still up in the air. It’s one of the great ironies of Oscar watching and predicting; we hate it when everything is predictable and “boring” yet panic when things are truly up in the air. Damned if you …

Glenn Close in The Wife (Sony Classics) The time has come. After seven nominations, Glenn Close (The Wife) will finally be an Oscar winner. With the Golden Globe, SAG and Critics’ Choice in her pocket she’ll enter the Dolby as the frontrunner in the strongest position she’s ever been in before. BAFTA winner Olivia Colman (The Favourite) will give her …

From left: If Beale Street Could Talk; A Star Is Born There aren’t a lot of categories this year where I’m letting my heart lead the way instead of my head. In fact, Original Score might be the only one. If there’s a category to do it, this is it. It’s the only non-short category where none of the five …

Vice (Annapurna)Mary Queen of Scots (Focus Features) A pair of Oscar nominees triumphed at the 6th annual Makeup and Hair Stylists Guild Awards (MUAH) last night as Vice and Mary Queen of Scots both took home wins. Vice won both awards it was up for: Best Period and/or Character Makeup and Best Special Makeup Effects, largely for Christian Bale’s extensive …

A Star Is Born (Warner Bros) The 9th Annual Guild of Music Supervisors Awards announced their winner on Wednesday evening in a ceremony that took place at the Theatre at Ace Hotel in Los Angeles.    A Star Is Born was a double winner, taking the awards for best music supervision for a film budgeted over $25 million, and for …

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 going from black and white to color to 3D to the extraordinarily advanced high definition digital cameras used today, cinematography has been one of most evolutionary elements of filmmaking. On Monday, The Academy announced it …

The top guilds have given us three different winners, all with historic paths to Best Picture For only the 5th time in Oscar history we have a three-way split between the winners at the PGA (Producers Guild of America, who went for Green Book), DGA (Directors Guild of America, who went for Roma) and SAG (Screen Actors Guild, who chose …

INOCA, the International Online Cinema Awards, have revealed their nominations for the best in 2018 film with the raucous period piece The Favourite from Yorgos Lanthimos leading the way with 12 mentions, including Best Picture, Best Director and two Best Actress slots (Olivia Colman and Emma Stone). Next up was Barry Jenkins’s intimate romance If Beale Street Could Talk, which …

Spike Lee, BlacKkKlansman (Focus Features) In 71 years of the Directors Guild of America awards, with its approximately 16,000 members, they’ve never given their top prize to a black director. In 91 years the Oscars haven’t either. That could change this year. Spike Lee (BlacKkKlansman) has been the film’s industry’s most resilient and prolific black director yet Hollywood has kept …