Silence, Fences, La La Land, Jackie, Patriots Day, Live by Night, Hidden Figures Fight for a Spot in Best Picture as December Releases
[divider style=”solid” top=”20″ bottom=”20″] We all trot out this factoid every year; no film released in December has won the Best Picture Oscar since 2004’s... Read More
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87th Academy Award Winners: Birdman Soars
Birdman won Best Picture at the 87th Academy Awards, ending a 34-year streak since a film has won the top prize at the Oscars with a... Read More
FINAL Oscar Predictions from the Gold Rush Gang: The Bird vs. The Boy
We’re in the final stretch of what has been one of the craziest, most unpredictable Oscar season in years. So much so that the top... Read More
Oscar Podcast #23: FINAL Oscar Predictions…AHHH!!!!!
In Oscar podcast #23, Gold Rush Gang member Peter Cioth and myself, Erik Anderson, tear through all 24 Academy Awards categories to find the answer... Read More
Motion Picture Sound Editors Winners: Birdman, American Sniper, Unbroken
The winners of the 62nd annual Golden Reels, the Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE) awards, honored the year’s best work in the various areas of sound editing:... Read More
Birdman chalked up yet another guild win, this time from the Cinema Audio Society which recognizes achievement in Sound Mixing. It bested American Sniper, which... Read More
Cinema Audio Society Predictions: American Sniper or (the Unexpected Possibility of a Birdman Win)
The Cinema Audio Society Awards are this Saturday and we have some predictions on who’s going to win Best Live-Action Sound Mixing. The nominees are:... Read More
2015 BAFTA Winners: Boyhood Plucks Birdman’s Wings
The EE British Academy Film Awards have chosen Boyhood as the best film of 2014. The film also won Director for Richard Linklater and Supporting... Read More
Directors Guild of America (DGA) Winners – Iñárritu Beats Linklater
Well, it happened; Alejandro G. Iñárritu has won the Directors Guild of America award for Best Director of 2014 for Birdman, besting perceived frontrunner Richard... Read More
Directors Guild (DGA) Preview and Predictions: Birdman and Boyhood Battle Again
This year’s DGA winner is going to really help us figure out what is going on with this Birdman vs. Boyhood situation, right?. Or is... Read More
2024 Online Association of Female Film Critics (OAFFC) Winners: ‘The Substance” Dominates 
2024 Greater Western New York Film Critics Association (GWNYFCA) Nominations 
Make It a Double Feature: Make the Yuletide (Sad and) Gay with ‘All of Us Strangers’ and ‘Queer’ 
AwardsWatch Podcast Ep. 267 – 92nd Academy Awards Retrospective