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Last week, the Golden Globe nominations put Vice on the Oscar map after months of wondering how that film might factor in. They loved The Favourite, Green Book and A Star Is Born. We weren’t even done reeling over the Kevin Hart Oscar host debacle when this week, the Critics’ Choice went in deep for First Man, a film that …

ROMAA Star Is Born ROMA, Alfonso Cuaron’s personal journey that chronicles a year in the life of a middle-class family in Mexico City in the early 1970’s has captured the minds and hearts of Las Vegas Film Critics Society, winning five awards including; Best Picture, Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing and Best Foreign Film.   A Star is Born …

Screeners, screeners, screeners. It’s the age old conversation whenever we discuss the Screen Actors Guild, especially in the nominating phase. The Screen Actors Guild nominating committee is a randomly chosen group of about 2100 of SAG’s 160K+ membership (which also includes AFTRA – The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists). With many of those members not living in the …

The FavouriteA Star Is BornVice The St. Louis Film Critics Associations nominations for 2018 were led by The Favourite, A Star Is Born and Vice with eight apiece although The Favourite missed out on a Best Film nomination that would have put it ahead of the pack. Here is the full list of nominations. Winners will be announced on December …

Lynne RamsayElizabeth DebickiSteven Yeun The Chicago Film Critics Association often hits us with some inspired nominations and this year is no different. They kicked up a little bit of dust last week, making an announcement of acting category placements that saw the women of The Favourite lining up differently than other awards bodies have been instructed, including Olivia Colman being …

Christian Bale in Golden Globe nomination leader VICE The nominations for the 76th Golden Globe Awards were announced this morning by actors Terry Crews, Danai Gurira, Leslie Mann and Christian Slate. They were joined by Golden Globe ambassador Isan Elba, Hollywood Foreign Press Association president Meher Tatna and Dick Clark Productions executive VP of television Barry Adelman. In the Motion Picture categories, Vice …

Alfonso Cuarón and Yalitza Aparicio (ROMA)Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga (A Star Is Born) ‘The Favourite’ and ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ also earn double wins ROMA triumphed with four wins when The Washington, D.C. Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA) announced their top honorees for 2018 this morning. A poignantly observed, Mexico-set period drama dedicated to director Alfonso Cuarón’s real-life …

A Star Is Born The FavouriteIf Beale Street Could TalkBlack Panther Even with a group as unpredictable as the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, a group of just over 90 international journalists based in Los Angeles, it’s probably safe to say that A Star Is Born and The Favourite will probably do very well here.  That said, the Golden Globes are …

The FavouriteROMA The Atlanta Film Critics Circle gave Yorgos Lanthimos’s The Favourite their top prize along with Best Screenplay, Best Lead Actress to Olivia Colman, Best Supporting Actress to Emma Stone and Best Ensemble Cast.  The group also fell in love with ROMA, which was their #3 film of the year and earned wins for Alfonso Cuarón in Best Director …

A Star Is Born, If Beale Street Could Talk, ROMA also score top mentions The political and sexual dramedy The Favourite earned 10 nominations from the Washington DC Film Critics Association (WAFCA) today, including Best Film, Best Director for Yorgos Lanthimos for all three of the film’s actresses: Olivia Colman in lead and Emma Stone & Rachel Weisz in supporting …