25 Best International Feature Film Contenders – Part 5: Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Spain, Sweden and United Kingdom
Deservingly, Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite has attained a nearly unanimous front-runner status not only for the Best International Feature Film Academy Award, but likely for nominations... Read More
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2020 Oscars: 25 Best International Feature Film Contenders Part 4 -Norway, Peru, Poland, Romania, Russia
Deservingly, Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite has attained a nearly unanimous front-runner status not only for the Best International Feature Film Academy Award, but likely for nominations... Read More
2020 Oscars: 25 Best International Feature Film Contenders Part 2 – Denmark, France, Germany, Israel and Italy
Welcome to ‘25 Best International Feature Film Contenders That Are Not Parasite,’ a 5-part series by Carlos Aguilar, his first for AwardsWatch. In this series,... Read More
2020 Oscars: 25 Best International Feature Film Contenders That Are Not ‘Parasite’ – Part 1
Introducing ‘25 Best International Feature Film Contenders That Are Not Parasite,’ a 5-part series by Carlos Aguilar, his first for AwardsWatch. In this series, Carlos... Read More
Oscar Podcast #76: Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild talk with Variety's Jenelle Riley
On this 76th Oscar podcast I welcome Variety’s Deputy Awards and Features Editor Jenelle Riley, a first time guest, to discuss the upcoming Golden Globe... Read More
2020 Oscars: After 14 nominations and losses, will Thomas Newman finally triumph with ‘1917’?
Since first gracing the category with a pair of Oscar nominations in 1994 (for Little Women and The Shawshank Redemption), composer Thomas Newman has been... Read More
2020 Oscars: Can Diane Warren 'Breakthrough' and finally win Best Original Song?
She has an Emmy Award, a Grammy Award and a Golden Globe and has composed nine songs that topped the Billboard Hot 100. At the... Read More
Retrospective: Worst Picture/Best Picture – Striptease and The English Patient (1996)
Striptease – “However the entire thing ended up being a mess, and I can only hope I can erase the image of Burt Reynolds in... Read More
LAIKA’s ‘Missing Link’ – What if David Lean directed ‘Around the World in Eighty Days’ starring Laurel and Hardy?
Writer/director Chris Butler’s vision for MISSING LINK challenged LAIKA’s award-winning team of artists to produce the biggest and most complicated stop-motion animated film in history... Read More
2020 Oscars: Scream Queens in Best Actress – Is Lupita Nyong’o Next?
In his AwardsWatch debut, Andrew Carden talks about the history of horror movie scream queens and their luck, and disadvantages, at the Oscars. Six years... Read More
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