Yes. And no. In the history of the Academy Awards, no film has ever received more than 14 Academy Award nominations, and that's only happened three times: All About Eve (1950), Titanic (1997), and La La Land (2016). To think that a comic book tentpole released in February could go on to set a new [...]
It’s not the Oscars. It’s you. Well, it's us really. A lot has been made of why the Academy Awards telecast has been in a steep decline over the last decade, falling this year to its lowest rated show ever. The conventional punditry has boiled that down to two reasons: more blockbusters need to be [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09M3C4VD1Fg Don’t get sidetracked by the confusing, too-clever-for-its-own-good title. The winner of the 2017 Academy Award for Best Documentary Short is a deeply moving human portrait. (Watch the full 40-minute movie above.) Mindy Alper is a 56-year-old woman who has suffered from phobias her entire life. As a child, depression, anxiety, and social triggers were compounded by [...]
On the day the Oscar nominations were announced back on January 23rd, I tweeted this: I'll take 8 for 9. But the one I missed was the big one: The Shape of Water. The year's nomination leader with 13 went on to win Best Picture of the Year at the 90th Annual Academy Awards. It [...]
Below are links to my reviews of all nine Best Picture nominees for the 90th Annual Academy Awards, listed in alphabetical order. To read my Oscar predictions, click here. Academy Award Nominees for BEST PICTURE 2017 Call Me By Your Name *** out of **** (4 Nominations) A sexy gay romance, the lush and lavish [...]
Below are my predictions for the 2017 Academy Awards, in all 24 categories. The list has some commentary in the major categories, and then simple “Will Win” predictions for the undercard choices along with “Should Win” opinions. In a night that won't see any one film dominate, the year's big winner will be Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri with 4 Academy Awards, including [...]
Between Netflix, Amazon Prime, and YouTube, there are 12 Oscar nominees you can stream right now. Most are in the Documentary Feature and Short categories. Not only would watching them give you a better gauge on some of the harder categories in your Oscar pool, but the Documentaries this year (feature length and shorts both) [...]
