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 need a telescope to look... Read More
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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 of America (DGA) bestowed their... Read More
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 huge surge and strength of... Read More
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 roller-coaster of this awards season... Read More
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 in our final 5) surprised... Read More
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 year. Will the Academy’s most-nominated... Read More
Key Dates and Deadlines Between January 1st and the Oscars (March 4th)
It’s the new year and we now enter what is essentially Phase II of awards season. The majority of critics’ groups have announced winners (or... Read More
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 next three weeks, we’ll be... Read More
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 the leader, increasing his point... Read More
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 top 10 but not making... Read More
2024 Camerimage Film Festival: Danish Oscar Entry ‘The Girl With the Needle’ Wins Golden Frog 
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 
2025 Oscar Predictions: BEST PICTURE and BEST DIRECTOR (November)