Oscar Podcast #42: Fall Festivals Kick Off Oscar Season with La La Land, Moonlight, Arrival, Nocturnal Animals
The Venice and Telluride Film Festivals have kicked off the beginning of Oscar season (even though we’ve been at it for months!), giving us a... Read More
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‘LOVING’ to be Closing Night film at the 39TH MILL VALLEY FILM FESTIVAL
SAN RAFAEL, CA (August 10, 2016) – The Mill Valley Film Festival (October 6 – 16, 2016), presented by the California Film Institute, is pleased to announce... Read More
2017 Oscar Predictions: ANIMATED FEATURE (August)
[divider style=”solid” top=”20″ bottom=”20″] The Animated Feature Oscar race is pretty competitive this year. While our #1 prediction, Moana, hasn’t even come out yet, what... Read More
Trailer for Major Oscar Contender ‘Loving,’ starring Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton
The trailer for one of the most anticipated films of the fall and one of this year’s potentially major Oscar players lands today. Jeff Nichols’... Read More
First Look: ‘Loving,’ starring Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton
With the unveiling of Jeff Nichols’s Loving at the Cannes Film Festival to mostly rapturous reviews (especially for Ruth Negga) comes the first clip of the... Read More
Cannes 2016 Distribution Watch: What’s Been Picked Up
[divider style=”solid” top=”20″ bottom=”20″] Sometimes it seems that for all of the prestige and pageantry of the Cannes Film Festival most American audiences will never see... Read More
In our 38th podcast, I am joined by three Gold Rush Gang members – Júlia, Evan and Kenneth – to first discuss the name change... Read More
2016 Oscars: SAG/GG Post-Mortem and Michael Shannon?
With the two major critics groups (LAFCA and NYFCC), the National Board of Review (NBR), Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and now The Golden Globes... Read More
Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Predictions: Spotlight, Room, Brooklyn Expected
The nominations for the 22nd Screen Actors Guild Awards are tomorrow morning and we have the FINAL predictions from The Gold Rush Gang. In the... Read More
A24 First Studio of the Season To Launch Awards Page
After just missing the mark with Spring Breakers in 2013 and A Most Violent Year last year, up and coming indie studio A24 isn’t... Read More
2024 North Carolina Film Critics Association (NCFCA) Nominations 
2024 Philadelphia Film Critics Circle (PFCC) Winners: ‘Anora’ Named Best Film Among its Six Awards 
2024 Utah Film Critics Association (UFCA) Nominations 
2024 Black Reel Awards Nominations: ‘Nickel Boys,’ ‘The Piano Lesson’ Lead