academy-awards

Retrospective: Worst Picture/Best Picture – Showgirls and Braveheart (1995)

Showgirls - “From the deer in the headlights performance of Elizabeth Berkley, to the so far over the top that you… Read More

February 8, 2018

2018 Oscars: Best Picture is beginning to take ‘Shape’

We're just a month away from the 90th Academy Awards and...we sort of have a frontrunner now? The Directors Guild… Read More

February 5, 2018

Is Daniel Day-Lewis a Phantom Threat in Best Actor?

[divider style="normal" top="20" bottom="20"] When the Oscar nominations were announced this week there probably wasn’t a bigger surprise than the… Read More

January 25, 2018

Oscar Podcast #62: FINAL Oscar Nomination Predictions plus PGA and SAG thoughts

It's Wednesday, January 17th and this is the FINAL Oscar nomination predictions podcast of the 2017-2018 awards season. Through the… Read More

January 17, 2018

Oscars 2018: Foreign Language Film – The Cases for THE INSULT (Lebanon), A FANTASTIC WOMAN (Chile) and THE SQUARE (Sweden)

Just as we were ready to call our 5 Foreign Language Film predictions locked, IN THE FADE (which was not… Read More

January 15, 2018

2018 Oscars: Is this the year Meryl Streep finally misses?

The always venerable Meryl Streep finally vulnerable in an Oscar race? I feel like we have this discussion every other… Read More

January 12, 2018

2018 Oscars: Foreign Language Film – The Cases for Israel’s FOXTROT and Hungary’s ON BODY AND SOUL

Last week, we kicked off our new Foreign Language Film analysis series now that the shortlist is out. Over the… Read More

December 27, 2017

2018 Oscar Predictions: SUPPORTING ACTOR (December Part 2) – Dafoe Still #1 but Plummer Makes His Move

Willem Dafoe (The Florida Project), who's won over a dozen critics' awards this season (15, as of this writing) remains… Read More

December 20, 2017

2018 Oscar Predictions: BEST PICTURE (December Part 2) – Get Out is #1

Since we started Best Picture predictions for this season, Dunkirk has mostly been atop the chart with stealth contenders Get Out and Lady Bird in the… Read More

December 18, 2017

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