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 movies.” – Mike Clark, USA... Read More
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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 on this repulsive experience, but... Read More
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 watching one. When The Silence... Read More
2021 Oscar Predictions: BEST PICTURE (January)
We’re at the last Oscar predictions of the ‘pre-season’ with the Screen Actors Guild, Golden Globes and Critics’ Choice all announcing nominations next week. This... Read More
2021 Oscar Predictions: BEST PICTURE (December)
A24’s First Cow and Searchlight’s Nomadland are the two films that jumped out ahead in the first critics’ announcements this month with the caveat that... Read More
2021 Oscar Predictions: BEST PICTURE (November)
In a normal year, the day after Thanksgiving is kind of an official kick off to awards season. Voters have a stick of screeners to... Read More
2021 Oscar Predictions: BEST PICTURE (October)
We’re finally getting our first looks at Netflix’s fall and winter slate with trailers for Hillbilly Elegy, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and Mank and the... Read More
2021 Oscar Predictions: BEST PICTURE (September)
My top 10 is eerily quiet this month, even after Venice and Toronto are over and NYFF is underway. Ammonite drops to make room for... Read More
Academy announces new, sweeping representation and inclusion standards for Best Picture eligibility
For the last few years, the Oscars, after coming under intense scrutiny when 2016 had only white acting nominees and spawning the hashtag #OscarsSoWhite (coined... Read More
2021 Oscar Predictions: BEST PICTURE (August)
Is it Oscar season yet? It’s kiiinda starting to look like it, or a semblance of it. The fall festivals, virtual as they are, are... Read More
Boston Online Film Critics Association (BOFCA) Winners: ‘One Battle After Another,’ Wagner Moura, Rose Byrne and More 
Georgia Film Critics Association (GAFCA) Nominations: ‘One Battle After Another’ Leads with 12 
Delroy Lindo, Michelle Satter, Sony Pictures Among African American Film Critics Association (AAFCA) Honorees 
Florida Film Critics Circle (FFCC) Winners: ‘One Battle After Another,’ Park Chan-wook, Josh O’Connor and More