Contender or Pretender Series: Interstellar
Welcome to the latest Contender or Pretender 2014. Today we take a look at what will likely be the biggest film in the awards race... Read More
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Awardswatch’s Best Actress Nominee Rankings – 2000s Edition
As promised, after yesterday’s Best Actor nominee rankings comes everyone’s true favorite, Best Actress. And again, some surprising results are in store. Where will Meryl Streep’s many... Read More
Contender or Pretender Series: Inherent Vice
Welcome to the latest entry of Contender or Pretender 2014! Our Oscar hopeful this week is Inherent Vice, Paul Thomas Anderson’s adaptation of the Thomas Pynchon... Read More
Contender or Pretender Series: Gone Girl
Welcome back to Contender or Pretender 2014, an Awardswatch series where, in each entry, we profile a different 2014 film and try to determine whether or... Read More
Contender or Pretender Series: Get On Up
Welcome to the second installment of Contender or Pretender 2014, an Awardswatch series where, in each entry, we profile a different 2014 film and try... Read More
Gold Rush Gang Predictions: March 2014
The first batch of predictions from the newly inducted Gold Rush Gang are ready for perusing! 2014 looks to be a fantastic and fascinating year... Read More
Looking Ahead to the Next Oscar Race
With the body of the 86th Academy Awards just lowered into the ground and topped off with fresh dirt, there’s no time like the present... Read More
12 Years A Slave prevails, American Hustle shut out at 86th Academy Awards
After one of the most unpredictable races in recent history, in the end the film that everybody expected to win at the start of the... Read More
Gold Rush Gang: FINAL Oscar Predictions
The time has come, for you to lip sy…wait, wrong show. This is it, the final stretch before the Oscars on Sunday and with it... Read More
Oscar Podcast #11: FINAL Oscar Predictions!
In this epic Oscar podcast, recorded February 25th, 2014, Erik, Ben, Kenneth and Peter discuss their final Oscar predictions, possibly change their minds in... Read More
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Interview: ‘Gladiator II’ Cinematographer John Mathieson on Reuniting with Ridley Scott and Continuing the Legacy and Lore 
Interview: Alan Menken and Glenn Slater on Creating the Songs and Score for ‘Spellbound’ and the “Perfectly” Cast Rachel Zegler 
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