‘Training Day’ at 20: Welcome back to the jungle [Retrospective]
Twenty years since it first hit theaters, Training Day (2001) is likely best remembered as the film that netted Denzel Washington his first Oscar win... Read More
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2022 Oscar Predictions: BEST ACTOR (September)
41 years. That’s how long it’s been since the Best Actor category at the Academy Awards was comprised entirely of previous winners or nominees. In... Read More
Despite all his rage, he’s still just Nicolas Cage: The case for the Oscar winner to return this awards season with ‘Pig’
The fall festival, film and awards season is upon us. As you are reading this, many prestigious film festivals are gearing up for world premieres... Read More
2022 Oscar Predictions: BEST ACTOR (August)
Hot off his Best Actor Oscar win for 2019’s Joker and having to awkwardly close out this year’s Oscar’s when the show’s producers thought it... Read More
2022 Oscar Predictions: BEST ACTOR (July)
As with Best Director, this month’s chart are mostly about how much the winners of the Cannes Film Festival have impacted their respective races, if... Read More
2022 Oscar Predictions: BEST ACTOR (June)
It’s starting to look like 2001 again… 20 years ago, Denzel Washington won his first lead acting Oscar for Training Day, and his second Oscar... Read More
2022 Oscar Predictions: BEST ACTOR (May)
When studios packed up 2020 films and shuffled them off to 2021 after the coronavirus closed theaters for the majority of the year, it created... Read More
FINAL 2021 Oscar Predictions: BEST ACTOR
Best Actor is a race that started in January of 2020, even before the Oscars announced Joaquin Phoenix as the current winner. The Father premiered... Read More
Oscars FYC: The case for Anthony Hopkins (‘The Father’) in Best Actor
It’s hard to describe the feeling of seeing an all-time performance. One doesn’t seek it out, but rather, it finds them. It can be in... Read More
FINAL 2021 Oscar Nomination Predictions: BEST ACTOR
Chadwick Boseman (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom), Riz Ahmed (Sound of Metal) and Anthony Hopkins (The Father) have all earned the top precursors on their way... 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)