2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions: BEST PICTURE (October)
Where there was green, now there is a sea of red. The top is pretty much the same as last month (just one drop and... Read More
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2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions: BEST ACTOR (October)
The top 10 in Best Actor this month remains the same as last month and the top 5 with just a small tweak in placement.... Read More
2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions: SUPPORTING ACTOR (October)
Supporting Actor is still a bit of a challenge Christian Bale’s category placement for Ford v Ferrari still up in the air so I’m keeping... Read More
2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions: ADAPTED SCREENPLAY (October)
Jojo Rabbit bounces back this month, while A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood just hangs on, precariously, to the top 5. Adapted Screenplay is rather... Read More
‘Just Mercy,’ ‘The Two Popes’ win Mill Valley Film Festival Audience Awards
Destin Daniel Cretton’s Just Mercy, starring Michael B. Jordan and Academy Award winner Jamie Foxx, was chosen as the overall favorite among the 42nd Mill... Read More
2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions: PRODUCTION DESIGN & COSTUME DESIGN (October)
Ahead of its release, Ad Astra was feeling very much like it was taking an identical trajectory to 2018’s First Man and indeed, it has... Read More
Frontrunner Friday Oscar Predictions: It’s peach season as ‘Parasite’ ripens this weekend
The big news this week was the official list from the Academy of the record-breaking 93 countries that will compete for the (newly named) International... Read More
Frontrunner Friday: ‘The Irishman,’ ‘1917,’ ‘Richard Jewell,’ light up the Oscar race
It’s the first Frontrunner Friday of the 2019-2020 Oscar season and for good reason: since the September Oscar predictions we’ve had Netflix’s The Irishman screen... Read More
2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions: BEST PICTURE (September)
In a post-Venice/Telluride/TIFF world there’s a lot of green to be seen on this month’s Best Picture chart. Some films found their places locked and... Read More
2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions: ADAPTED SCREENPLAY (September)
Discussions, arguments and confirmations have come in since last month for a few screenplays that found themselves with one foot dipped into each of the... Read More
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Interview: Director Robert Eggers (‘Nosferatu’) on the Consequences of Temptation, Training Hundreds of Rats, and Playing with Vampire Lore 
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