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  Spotlight has won the Writers Guild of America award for Original Screenplay and The Big Short took the Adapted Screenplay award. Both are the favorites for the screenplay Oscars in their respective categories. In television, the final season of Mad Men triumphed in Drama Series but Better Call Saul took the episodic win. It lost to Mr. Robot for New …

  With his DGA and Golden Globe wins under his belt there’s very little in the way of Alejandro G. Iñárritu (The Revenant) winning his second Best Director Oscar in a row. This would put him in same group as John Ford and Joseph Mancewicz. He could still do this without The Revenant winning Best Picture but even that is starting to …

  Alejandro G. Iñárritu made history tonight by becoming the only director in the Directors Guild’s 68 years to win back to back awards. He won last year for Birdman and won again tonight for The Revenant. We now have a completely topsy-turvy Oscar race with a different film each winning the top three guilds. The Big Short won PGA, …

  After the wins for The Big Short at the PGA and Spotlight at SAG, all eyes are focused on the Directors Guild of America with laser intensity. The winner here could tip the balance in favor of one of those films and finally give us a solid Best Picture frontrunner (a mere three weeks before the Oscars), or keep …

We know that every year we have huge surprise nominees and even more, shocking snubs, at the Oscar nominations. This year, the craziest year I think I’ve ever seen in my years of Oscar watching, is going to prove no different. Although, the craziness of this season could be preparing us for those shocks. Best Picture alone is a stressful …

  After their head-turning Best Picture win for Jean-Luc Godard’s Goodbye to Language last year, the National Society of Film Critics have gone back to the mainstream, awarding the true story journalism procedural Spotlight, the Best Picture of 2015. The win came as somewhat of a surprise as most pundits had pegged Mad Max: Fury Road, Carol or The Assassin …

  Here’s who’s won the critics and industry awards so far this season, leading up to the big one – The Oscars. After dominating the critics awards, Mad Max: Fury Road and Spotlight took a back seat to The Big Short, which won the Producers Guild of America award, the most surefire precursor to the Best Picture Oscar. But then, …

The results for the October Forum Oscar Polls are in and Joy has vaulted over Carol to land at #1 for the month. Not that Carol is crying, the film is at #2 and just a few votes behind in a very tough battle. Right behind Carol though is an even closer competitor, Spotlight. The Open Road film moves up …

  Telling the story of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe reporters whose 2001 investigation broke through the systemic cover-up of Catholic priests sexually abusing kids and being shuttled around to different parishes for protection is not an easy gamble. Ultra-sensitive material and a tendency for stories like this to glamorize the job over the story happen all the time. Not …