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, Gary Oldman, Frances McDormand, Sam Rockwell, Allison Janney and more, below. BEST DIRECTOR Guillermo del Toro (winner) – del Toro has no films set for release in 2018 but as a producer and writer has …
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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 legitimate cases to be had for Dunkirk, The Shape of Water or Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri to capture the Brits’ top film prize. This is also the last opportunity for an awards body to …
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After a record-setting 11 nominations, Call Me By Your Name has won the International Cinephile Society’s Best Picture of 2017. The film also took top honors for Best Actor (Timothée Chalamet), Best Supporting Actor (Michael Stuhlbarg) and Best Adapted Screenplay (James Ivory). Giving tremendous chase though was Paul Thomas Anderson’s Phantom Thread. In fact, the two films completely dominated the top …
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The similarities between the Supporting Actor and Supporting Actress races this year are striking; the current frontrunners are not the critics’ favorites but somehow turned things around once the televised awards started and took their more over-the-top characters to the stage, grabbing trophy after trophy as their more subtle competitors’ sat watching from the sidelines. Right now, Allison Janney (I, …
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Despite her wins at the National Board of Review and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, Laurie Metcalf (Lady Bird) is still in second place to Allison Janney (I, Tonya) who rules the roost, albeit by a smaller margin this month. It will be interesting to see if these two actresses separate their wins where one earns more critics’ praise while the other dominates …
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If there’s a theme to this category this year it’s all about moms. Good moms, bad moms, really bad moms and even a Mother. As if the teaser weren’t enough, the red-band trailer for I, Tonya dropped this week and with it the acid-tongued profanity from our #1 Supporting Actress contender, Allison Janney. Sitting atop with a perfect score of …
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The lush trailer for Phantom Thread, Paul Thomas Anderson’s eighth film, and possibly the final film performance of three-time Best Actor Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis has arrived. Phantom Thread marks the second collaboration between Anderson and Day-Lewis after 2007’s There Will Be Blood and the film is Anderson’s first foray outside of the US for a film. Something interesting to …
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The long-awaited and super secretive Paul Thomas Anderson fashion drama, which is now officially titled Phantom Thread, is starting to reveal itself. On deck is a 2m16s trailer due next week, a full synopsis of the film (including Daniel Day-Lewis’s glorious character name – Reynolds Woodcock) and reportedly Day-Lewis’s last film ever (rumors that he wants to retire to become …
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