Contender or Pretender Series: Gone Girl
Welcome back to Contender or Pretender 2014, an Awardswatch series where, in each entry, we profile a different 2014 film and try to determine whether or... Read More
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Retrospective: Worst Picture/Best Picture Series – Mommie Dearest and Chariots of Fire (1981)
Continuing the series, we will be taking a look at 1981, the 2nd year of the Razzie Awards. Two movies which may look on the... Read More
Retrospective: Worst Picture/Best Picture Series – Can’t Stop the Music and Ordinary People (1980)
Welcome to a new Awardswatch series, Worst Picture/Best Picture from the mind of Jeff Beachnau. In 1929, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences... Read More
Contender or Pretender Series: Unbroken
Welcome to Contender or Pretender 2014, a new Awardswatch series where, in each entry, we profile a different 2014 film and try to determine whether... Read More
12 Years A Slave prevails, American Hustle shut out at 86th Academy Awards
After one of the most unpredictable races in recent history, in the end the film that everybody expected to win at the start of the... Read More
Gold Rush Gang: FINAL Oscar Predictions
The time has come, for you to lip sy…wait, wrong show. This is it, the final stretch before the Oscars on Sunday and with it... Read More
Oscar Podcast #11: FINAL Oscar Predictions!
In this epic Oscar podcast, recorded February 25th, 2014, Erik, Ben, Kenneth and Peter discuss their final Oscar predictions, possibly change their minds in... Read More
12 Years a Slave Wins BAFTA’s Best Film (and Not Much Else)
It’s another awards show, which means 12 Years a Slave won the top prize but still managed to stumble, hard. After losing category after category... Read More
Visual Effects Society Awards: Gravity and Frozen Sweep
Adding one more lock to its inevitable Oscar win, Gravity dominated the Visual Effects Society’s (VES) awards, winning six of its seven nominations, including the... Read More
In this podcast, Erik and Peter discuss their BAFTA predictions plus mull over the recent surge by Captain Phillips in some very important precursors. Oh,... Read More
2025 Oscar Predictions: BEST PICTURE and BEST DIRECTOR (November) 
Interview: John Lithgow on ‘Conclave’ Being a Career Highlight, Oscar Buzz and Comparing Director Edward Berger to David Lean [VIDEO] 
Interview: In ‘Gladiator II,’ Costume Designer Janty Yates Turns Rome into Her Runway 
Interview: Production Designer Arthur Max on Rebuilding Rome and Filling the Colosseum with Water in ‘Gladiator II’