2024 Oscar Predictions: ORIGINAL SCORE (November)
As in Original Song, the Barbie soundtrack blew up at the Grammy nominations this week but even though it nabbed a nod for its score... Read More
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AwardsWatch Podcast #206: Gotham Awards Noms, AFI FEST 2023 Recap and more
On episode 206 of The AwardsWatch Podcast, Executive Editor Ryan McQuade is joined by AwardsWatch contributor Sophia Ciminello recap the AFI FEST 2023. Before they... Read More
Wiseguys, Killers, and Saints: Ranking the Films of Martin Scorsese from ‘Mean Streets’ to ‘GoodFellas’ to ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’
When Martin Scorsese’s debut film, Who’s That Knocking at My Door?, played at the Chicago International Film Festival in 1967, then-novice film critic Roger Ebert... Read More
2024 Oscar Predictions: ADAPTED SCREENPLAY and ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY (October)
The top three in both Adapted (Oppenheimer, Killers of the Flower Moon, Poor Things) and Original (Barbie, The Holdovers, Past Lives) remain in place and... Read More
2024 Oscar Predictions: FILM EDITING (October)
There’s a potential for Oscar history in this category as this year finds more women as top tier contenders than ever before. Only once in... Read More
2024 Oscar Predictions: CINEMATOGRAPHY (October)
IMAX, black & white and 1.33:1 aspect ratios have flooded theaters this year, offering audiences one of the most varied visual seasons in years, many... Read More
‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Review: Martin Scorsese Crafts an Elegiac Masterpiece Filled with Beauty and Bloodshed
After witnessing the magnificence of The Irishman, one of Martin Scorsese’s late-career masterpieces, I told myself that I would have been satisfied if I had... Read More
2024 Oscar Predictions: PRODUCTION DESIGN (October)
Fantasy, history and period biopics are what you can expect to find in one of the deepest bench categories of the season, Production Design. While... Read More
2024 Oscar Predictions: COSTUME DESIGN (October)
Big names are set to take up a lot of space in Costume Design this year with Jacqueline Durran (Barbie), Mark Bridges (Maestro) and Janty... Read More
2024 Oscar Predictions: SOUND (October)
Vroom vroom, bitches. While we may not have any jets breaking the sound barrier this year, we do have one of the sound branch’s other... Read More
2026 San Francisco International Film Festival Reviews: ‘The World of Love,’ ‘A Sad and Beautiful World,’ ‘Nuisance Bear,’ ‘One in a Million’ (SFFILM) 
2027 Oscar Predictions: SUPPORTING ACTOR (May) 
Interview: Boots Riley on Collecting an Eclectic Cast and How ‘I Love Boosters’ is Like Richard Scarry’s ‘Busy, Busy Town’ 
Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal to Reunite for ‘Hold On To Your Angels’ from Benh Zeitlin