FIRST LOOK: ‘Carol’ Compilation Footage
Ahead of its Cannes debut we have two minutes of compilation footage from Todd Haynes’s Carol, the highly anticipated 1950s lesbian drama from novelist Patricia... Read More
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Cannes 2015: Queer Palm Films Announced with an All-Female Jury
The Queer Palm is an independently sponsored prize for selected LGBT-relevant films entered into the Cannes Film Festival. The award was founded in 2010 by... Read More
Oscar Podcast #24: A New Season Begins with Carol and Joy and the Dying Girl
It’s a new Oscar season (yes, in April) and we’re back with the Awardswatch Oscar Podcast. This year saw some shakeup in the Gold Rush... Read More
Forum Oscar Poll Results: March 2015 – Joy to the World, Let the Carol-ing Begin
No, it’s not Christmas but two female-led films are jingling all the way up to the top of the Awardswatch Forum Oscar Polls. Joy, starring... Read More
2016 Oscars: BEST ACTRESS Contenders (Blanchett, Moore, Lawrence, Kidman, Roberts!)
Next up in my 2016 Contenders list is BEST ACTRESS. Amazingly, we could be looking at the richest Best Actress slate in years, including the... Read More
TRAILER: Cate Blanchett Gives Joan Crawford Realness in Live-Action ‘Cinderella’ (2015)
Swooping down today with nothing less than a trailer, a poster and a glorious set of production stills and shots from Annie Leibovitz featuring Oscar-winner... Read More
Awardswatch’s Best Actress Nominee Rankings – 2000s Edition
As promised, after yesterday’s Best Actor nominee rankings comes everyone’s true favorite, Best Actress. And again, some surprising results are in store. Where will Meryl Streep’s many... Read More
AwardsWatch’s 50 Favorite Performances of 2013
Yeah, it’s March but AwardsWatch has another 2013 list! It’s our Favorite Performances of 2013 and it was a hard fought, nail-biter with Oscar nominees,... Read More
12 Years A Slave prevails, American Hustle shut out at 86th Academy Awards
After one of the most unpredictable races in recent history, in the end the film that everybody expected to win at the start of the... Read More
12 Years a Slave, McConaughey, Blanchett Win Spirit Awards
The Film Independent Spirit Awards, famous for giving out their trophies the day before the Oscars, looked an awful lot like an Oscar preview today.... Read More
2025 Oscar Predictions: SUPPORTING ACTOR (November) 
Director Watch Podcast Ep. 72 – ‘Three Colours: Blue’ (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1993) 
2025 Oscars: Eligibility Lists for Animated Feature, Documentary Feature and International Feature Film for the 97th Academy Awards 
Nava Mau, Sean Wang Among 2024 BAFTA Breakthroughs Championing New ‘Must-Watch’ Creatives