Month: January 2019

Of all the industry guilds, the Writers is the biggest wild card. Snubs aren't only normal; they're ingrained into the legalese of the org's eligibility rules. Due to arcane requirements in their "Minimum Basic Agreement", the Writers Guild of America annually overlooks some of the season's major Academy Award contenders. Those most often snubbed are [...]

The two best films of the year according to the Golden Globes are Bohemian Rhapsody and Green Book. Don't bet on the Academy agreeing with either. From the middlebrow Green Book pick to the lowbrow Bohemian shocker, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association went decidedly populist with their two biggest prizes -- Best Motion Picture Drama and [...]

Now this is a critics group putting their awards where their sophistication is. Critics Groups are, in a sense, like any other group. Their cumulative opinion often falls into a conventional wisdom or common narrative. Rarely does it result in a truly elitist pick, but such was the case this year as the National Society [...]

Producers go big, kicking low budget to the curb. The nominations for the 30th Annual Producers Guild of America awards - honoring the best produced movies of 2018 - have been announced. The omissions and the snubs are both glaring and telling. An equivalent to the Academy Awards' Best Picture category, the PGA nominations are [...]