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The Fox Searchlight family earned 8 nominations across their films The Favourite, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, The Old Man & the Gun and Isle of Dogs this morning and stars Olivia Colman, Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz, Melissa McCarthy, Richard E. Grant and Robert Redford joined Alexandre Desplat, Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara in responding to the news. Here are …

The deepest bench of Best Actress contenders in years is going to give us one of the best set of nominations the Oscars has ever seen Best Actress is a bloodbath, the most competitive I’ve seen this category in years. That’s a good thing but it makes predicting extra hard.  This category has everything: a veteran with an overdue narrative, …

The line between supporting and lead has always been a blurry one. Sometimes the sheer impact of a character and of an actor’s performance can propel them from a supporting lock to a lead contender. Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs and Louise Fletcher in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest are probably the two biggest examples of …

Best Actress continues to the year’s most stacked and competitive categories and that’s a good thing. It also means that some major names, including previous Oscar winners, will likely have to make room for newcomers and seemingly solid contenders might find themselves struggling for a nomination. I’m keeping Glenn Close (The Wife) at #1 for another month. With her overdue …

Regina King, If Beale Street Could Talk (Annapurna) Previous…Supporting Actor Next…Adapted Screenplay

Glenn Close, The Wife (Sony Pictures Classics) Previous…Best Actor Next…Supporting Actor

Regina King is the new queen of the Supporting Actress Oscar race as If Beale Street Could Talk had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival earlier this month for a performance met with raves reviews, many calling her the standout. The film was also the first runner-up for the People’s Choice Award at TIFF. She knocks down …

“We are at war.” “We won!” “No, it is not over, we must continue.” “Oh! Oh, I did not know that.” So begins the darkly comic trailer for The Favourite, from director Yorgos Lanthimos and starring Olivia Colman, Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz. As taking care of Queen Anne (Colman) and running a castle becomes a more and more difficult …

One the fall’s major Oscar hopefuls, and featuring a wealth of juicy actress performances, The Favourite is appeasing critics left and right.  Lauded performances from Olivia Colman, Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz plus raves over the period detail, cinematography and costume design – on top of the rip-roaring screenplay, the film is already looking like well, a festival favourite.  It’s early …

Yorgos Lanthimos’s The Favourite is set to debut at the Venice Film Festival and ahead of the responses and reviews comes a first clip featuring Academy Award winners Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz with Golden Globe winner Olivia Colman. Film synopsis: Early 18th century. England is at war with the French. Nevertheless, duck racing and pineapple eating are thriving. A …