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FINAL 2021 Oscar Nomination Predictions: BEST ACTRESS

Erik Anderson March 11, 2021

What’s usually one of the most competitive and difficult categories to predict, Best Actress feels…closed up? Am I crazy or is it locked with Carey... Read More

2021 Oscar Predictions: BEST ACTRESS (February)

Erik Anderson February 18, 2021

The Best Actress race is getting decidedly more competitive, with Carey Mulligan continuing to scoop up critics’ wins as her film, Promising Young Woman, is... Read More

2021 Oscars: Glenn Close & Amy Adams (‘Hillbilly Elegy’) and Ellen Burstyn & Vanessa Kirby (‘Pieces of a Woman’) could be latest Oscar-nominated mother-daughter duos

Andrew Carden February 10, 2021

n 1987, Olympia Dukakis and Cher (Moonstruck) made history as the first actresses to score Oscar wins for portraying a mother and daughter in the... Read More

Sundance Review: ‘The World to Come’ too often sacrifices character for mood

Catherine Springer February 2, 2021

The latest entry in the period piece lesbian drama genre that has grown increasingly popular in the past few years is The World to Come,... Read More

2021 Oscar Predictions: BEST ACTRESS (January)

Erik Anderson January 28, 2021

Are we giving Nicole Beharie (Miss Juneteenth) a fair shake in Best Actress? She’s a Gotham winner, upsetting Frances McDormand. She’s a Spirit Award nominee... Read More

New Mexico Critics: ‘Mank’ wins its first Best Picture prize; Mads Mikkelsen named Best Actor

Erik Anderson January 23, 2021

Mank, David Fincher’s behind the scenes saga of the writing of Citizen Kane, was named the Best Picture of 2020 by the New Mexico Film... Read More

2021 Oscar Predictions: BEST ACTRESS (December)

Erik Anderson December 24, 2020

The toughest race of the season just got much tougher. Although I’m starting to feel Viola Davis (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom) is a softer frontrunner... Read More

2021 Oscar Predictions: BEST ACTRESS (November)

Erik Anderson November 26, 2020

How do you know when something is an ‘internet thing’ or the ‘real thing’? A few years ago, Jake Gyllenhaal seemed primed for a Best... Read More

Trailer: Vanessa Kirby comes apart in ‘Pieces of a Woman’

Erik Anderson November 17, 2020

Martha (Vanessa Kirby) and Sean (Shia LaBeouf) are a Boston couple on the verge of parenthood whose lives change irrevocably when a home birth ends... Read More

2021 Oscar Predictions: BEST ACTRESS (October)

Erik Anderson October 22, 2020

Ok, so here’s the thing; the move by Netflix to push Chadwick Boseman into lead for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom throws some historical and statistical... Read More