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
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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
Retrospective: Worst Picture/Best Picture – Battlefield Earth and Gladiator (2000)
“After returning the video I honestly asked the clerk that even when I’m very drunk to stop me from renting this movie ever again. Hopefully... Read More
Retrospective: Worst Picture/Best Picture – Wild Wild West and American Beauty (1999)
“My biggest regret in seeing this film is that wish I could have warned you earlier not to see it. I’m sure there are several... Read More
2021 Oscar Predictions: BEST PICTURE and BEST DIRECTOR (July)
It’s been two weeks since my predictions in Supporting Actor and I held off on my Best Picture and Best Director contenders for July until... Read More
11th Chicago Critics Film Festival Lineup: ‘Sing Sing,’ ‘Thelma,’ Babes,’ ‘Cuckoo’ and More 
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