best picture

Have we seen the end of the technical juggernaut winning Best Picture?

Matt St. Clair takes a look at how everything from the pandemic to the preferential ballot have all but eliminated… Read More

October 27, 2021

2022 Oscar Predictions: BEST PICTURE (September)

Paul Thomas Anderson's history with the Oscars is one that's felt like it's been closing in Best Picture for a… Read More

September 30, 2021

2022 Oscar Predictions: BEST PICTURE (August)

It's the end of August so we have the lineups for Venice, Toronto and New York festivals, shining a light on studio priorities and… Read More

August 27, 2021

2022 Oscar Predictions: BEST PICTURE (July)

Cannes winners, Venice and Toronto lineups and the trailers for Dune, King Richard and House of Gucci all highlight July's… Read More

July 30, 2021

2022 Oscar Predictions: BEST PICTURE (June)

The Cannes lineup has been announced and bits and pieces of potential Venice films as a result give us a… Read More

June 30, 2021

2022 Oscar Predictions: BEST PICTURE (May)

We may be just over a week from the longest Oscar season in history but there's no rest for the… Read More

May 3, 2021

FINAL 2021 Oscar Nomination Predictions: BEST PICTURE

It's all come down to this. A worldwide pandemic. Closed theaters. Movies pushed off until late 2021 or beyond. An… Read More

March 12, 2021

Retrospective: Worst Picture/Best Picture – ‘Swept Away’ and ‘Chicago’ (2002)

“More than any other example in recent memory, Chicago shows how much the element of surprise is missing from today's… Read More

February 28, 2021

Retrospective: Worst Picture/Best Picture – Freddy Got Fingered and A Beautiful Mind (2001)

“This film not only left me with an incredible sense of dread for the 80 minutes of my life wasted… Read More

February 22, 2021

Retrospective: 30 Years Later, ‘The Silence of the Lambs’ remains an Oscar anomaly in the horror genre

Historically, in the eyes of AMPAS, the idea of even nominating a horror movie for Best Picture is scarier than… Read More

February 10, 2021

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