Director Watch Podcast Ep. 25 – ‘Phantom Thread’ (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2017)
Welcome to Director Watch! On this AwardsWatch podcast, co-hosts Ryan McQuade and Jay Ledbetter attempt to breakdown, analyze, and ultimately, get inside the mind of... Read More
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Director Watch Podcast Ep. 22 – ‘There Will Be Blood’ (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007)
Welcome to Director Watch! On this AwardsWatch podcast, co-hosts Ryan McQuade and Jay Ledbetter attempt to breakdown, analyze, and ultimately, get inside the mind of... Read More
‘Gangs of New York’ at 20: All the beauty and the bloodshed of Martin Scorsese’s 1860s New York City immigrant mobster tale still holds [Retrospective]
I can still remember walking out of the AMC theater in Framingham, Massachusetts after hearing U2’s powerful song The Hands That Built America and marveling... Read More
What Some of This Year’s Oscar Winners and Nominees Have Coming Up in 2018
Wondering what this year’s directing and acting Oscar winners and nominees are up to for 2018? Check out what’s up next for Guillermo del Toro,... Read More
2018 BAFTA Preview and Predictions: Dunkirk, The Shape of Water, Three Billboards all in the mix
BAFTA is this weekend and, like the Oscars, there’s a lot that seems up in the air – especially in the top category. There are... Read More
AwardsWatch Forums’ 50 Favourite Performances of 2017
For the last five years, the AwardsWatch forums have compiled their 50 Favourite Performances of the year and the results for 2017 are in. Once we... Read More
2018 Oscar Predictions: BEST ACTOR – Gary Oldman Charges Through
What more is there to say about Gary Oldman (Darkest Hour from Focus Features) and is security as the next Best Actor Oscar winner? He... Read More
Is Daniel Day-Lewis a Phantom Threat in Best Actor?
[divider style=”normal” top=”20″ bottom=”20″] When the Oscar nominations were announced this week there probably wasn’t a bigger surprise than the huge surge and strength of... Read More
2018 Oscars: Who Are the Frontrunners Now?
The Oscar nominations are in, giving us some solid intel as well as provided us with some questions that only the next phase of awards... Read More
2018 Oscar Predictions: BEST ACTOR (December Part 2) – Oldman still tops but Kaluuya is coming
Gary Oldman (Darkest Hour) is an unmovable force in Best Actor as he notches another month at the top of the chart. But the big... Read More
AwardsWatch Podcast Ep. 283 – Reviewing ‘Warfare’ and Breaking Down the 2025 Cannes Film Festival Lineup 
2025 Cannes: Critics’ Week Lineup Includes Sean Baker-Written Feature and a Dialogue-Free, Post-Apocalyptic Animated Film 
Teaser for Ari Aster’s Cannes-Bound COVID Era ‘Eddington’ Looks at the Crumbling U.S. Political Landscape of 2020 
‘The Last of Us’ Season 2 Review: Love in the Time of Cordyceps [A-]