17th International Cinephile Society (ICS) awards: ‘Pain and Glory’ named Best Picture
The international group chose outside the box winner like Vitalina Varela for Best Actress and eclectic doc Just Don’t Think I’ll Scream in three categories... Read More
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Final 2020 Oscar Predictions – INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM
Whether it’s critics or the Academy themselves, each of this category (formerly called Foreign Language Film) there seems to be one film that is propped... Read More
Dorian Award nominations: ‘Parasite,’ ‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire,’ ‘Pain and Glory’ top GALECA list
Dorian Award nominations: ‘Parasite,’ ‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire,’ ‘Pain and Glory’ top GALECA list
GALECA, the Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (of which I am a member), has announced their nominations for the 2020 Dorian Awards representing the best in... Read More
2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions: ORIGINAL SCORE and ORIGINAL SONG (December)
Two more categories the Oscar shortlists gave us, Original Score and Original Song, showed some possible directions the Academy as a whole might be going.... Read More
London Film Critics Circle Nominations: ‘The Souvenir’ leads
The London Film Critics Circle nominations are out and Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir leads the pack with seven mentions including Film of the Year. Curiously... Read More
2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions: INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM (December)
The official Oscar shortlist for International Feature Film was released yesterday and with it came some huge snubs and even bigger surprise inclusions. Although four... Read More
2020 Oscars: 25 Best International Feature Film Contenders That Are Not ‘Parasite’
‘25 Best International Feature Film Contenders That Are Not Parasite’ is a 5-part series by Carlos Aguilar, his first for AwardsWatch. In this series, Carlos... Read More
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
'Parasite' named Best Picture by Los Angeles Film Critics Circle (LAFCA)
The Los Angeles Film Critics Association have chosen Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite as the best film of 2019, also giving it Best Director and Best... Read More
2019 European Film Awards (EFA): 'The Favourite' is the favorite
The 32nd European Film Awards were given out tonight and Yorgos Lanthimos’s The Favourite was the overwhelming favorite, sweeping eight categories including Best European Film,... Read More
‘Wishful Thinking,’ ‘Over Your Dead Body’ Among 2026 SXSW Film & TV Festival Juried and Audience Award Winners 
Director Watch Podcast Ep. 144 – ‘A Matter of Life and Death (Powell and Pressburger, 1946) with Special Guest Jesse Nussman 
Association of Motion Picture Sound (AMPS) Television and Nonfiction Nominations Announced: ‘Adolescence,’ ‘Black Mirror,’ ‘Slow Horses’ and More 
Trailer Watch: ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day,’ ‘Dune: Part Three,’ Disclosure Day,’ ‘Wild Horse Nine’