Well that took long enough. Yes, I'm a Top 10 straggler, but I'd rather be sure than second-guess myself down the road. Rushing out a list during the onslaught of screening season, simply to meet the obligatory date of December 31st, just doesn't allow that. Not for me, anyway. Instead, I like to let my [...]
Alfonso Cuarón's Roma has been the consensus choice by most critics groups throughout the awards season, and that trend was rubber-stamped when Roma was named Best Picture at the 24th Annual Critics' Choice Awards. The Mexico-set drama also won Best Director and Cinematography for Cuarón, plus Best Foreign Language Film. It's that Foreign Language which [...]
The nominees for the 71st Annual Directors Guild of America awards certainly don't come as a surprise. All five make sense, given the movies and artists we've seen highlighted throughout the awards season so far. Nevertheless, since Director seems to be one of this year's most competitive races there remain a slew of notable omissions. [...]
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 [...]
A decade-low viewership for the Golden Globes reveals a reality that the Oscars should finally accept: Your ratings aren’t coming back. You couldn’t have had a better case study, actually, than this year’s Globes because it had everything going for it. Not only did it boast coveted popular nominees like Black Panther, Crazy Rich Asians, [...]
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 [...]
This article contains major spoilers for A Star Is Born At the center of that awards season maelstrom is A Star Is Born, the fourth film version about the rise to stardom of an unknown artist (played here by Lady Gaga) after she’s discovered by an industry legend who’s struggling with alcohol and drug addiction [...]
Boston Critics like to go their own way. Marking themselves as perhaps the artiest of critics groups, the Boston Society of Film Critics became the first to name If Beale Street Could Talk the Best Film of 2018. The 1970s elegaic racial drama from director Barry Jenkins (Moonlight) is a lush piece of classical filmmaking, [...]