AwardsWatch - oscars

Netflix lines up its Oscar hopefuls: ROMA, 22 July, Buster Scruggs, Kindergarten Teacher main pushes

Erik Anderson October 11, 2018

Netflix, which broke through the Oscars last season with above-the-line Academy Award nominations for Mudbound (and also establishing two pieces of Oscar history in the... Read More

Academy reveals Nicholl Fellowship screenwriting winners

Erik Anderson September 18, 2018

Scripts to be performed at live read in November Three individuals and one writing team have been selected as winners of the 2018 Academy Nicholl... Read More

Toronto Film Festival Winners: ‘Green Book’ drives into the Oscar race

Erik Anderson September 16, 2018

The Peter Farrelly race relations road comedy Green Book, starring Academy Award winner Mashershala Ali (Moonlight) and Academy Award nominee Viggo Mortensen (Eastern Promises, Captain... Read More

Student Academy Award Winners Announced

Erik Anderson September 12, 2018

All Winning Films Now Eligible for Animated Short Film, Live Action Short Film or Documentary Short Subject Oscars The Academy has voted 19 students as... Read More

Oscars: Kathleen Kennedy, Marvin Levy, Frank Marshall, Lalo Schifrin, Cicely Tyson to receive Honorary Oscars

Erik Anderson September 5, 2018

Kennedy is the first woman to receive the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award; Levy is the first publicist to receive an Honorary Oscar. The Board... Read More

Oscar Podcast #67: Academy Drops Bombshell New Category; Shortens Telecast, Moves Some Awards to Commercial Breaks with guest Daniel Joyaux

Erik Anderson August 9, 2018

There are some major changes coming to the very next Oscars ceremony…and they’re not good. Yesterday, the Academy, in a bombshell announcement, revealed that they... Read More

Review: Glenn Close is Oscar-worthy in ‘The Wife’

Erik Anderson August 7, 2018

[divider style=”normal” top=”20″ bottom=”20″] No one can do a cold stare like Glenn Close. Throughout her new film, The Wife, Close, in a career-defining and... Read More

Lady Gaga Announces Dates for ‘Enigma,’ ‘Jazz & Piano’ Las Vegas Residency Shows

Erik Anderson August 7, 2018

[divider style=”normal” top=”20″ bottom=”20″] Lady Gaga has announced dates and details for her residency at Park Theater at the new Park MGM resort in Las Vegas, which kicks off Friday, December... Read More

First trailer for Barry Jenkins’ ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ commemorates James Baldwin’s birthday

Erik Anderson August 2, 2018

The long-awaited trailer to Barry Jenkins’ follow-up to his Oscar-winning Moonlight is here. Jenkins has long been one of James Baldwin’s most ardent fans and... Read More

Trailer for Mike Leigh’s ‘Peterloo’

Erik Anderson July 24, 2018

[divider style=”normal” top=”20″ bottom=”20″] Peterloo is latest film from 7-time Academy Award nominee Mike Leigh (Secrets and Lies, Happy-Go-Lucky), detailing the bloodiest episodes in British... Read More