We may now know who's going to win the Academy Award for Best Director, but the Best Picture race is more wide open than ever. Capping a pre-Oscar awards run of near dominance, Alfonso Cuarón was named the year's best director for Roma by the Directors Guild of America. This follows a slew of wins for Cuarón [...]
Well that didn't help. That's what Oscar prognosticators were thinking when Emily Blunt won the Female Supporting Actor Award for A Quiet Place. In doing so, she became only the second winner in the 25 year history of the Screen Actors Guild Awards to not even be nominated for an Oscar in the same category. [...]
Big surprises and big snubs, all in really big categories. That's what defined the nominations for the 91st annual Academy Awards. Leading the pack with 10 nominations was (unsurprisingly) the period piece / acting showcase / dark satire The Favourite and director Alfonso Cuarón's personal passion project Roma. To get to 10, Cuarón's Mexican-language film set in [...]
For the Oscar nerds out there, here are my predictions of who and what the Academy will nominate on Tuesday morning for their 91st Annual Awards. I'm predicting nominees in all categories but three (Live Action Short, Animated Short, and Documentary Short). For Best Picture, Academy rules state that there can be "up to 10" nominees, but 10 [...]
And Film Twitter just lost its ever-flippin' mind. In the year of Black Panther, BlacKkKlansman, and If Beale Street Could Talk, the Producers Guild of America - the Hollywood union that's an annual precursor for Best Picture contenders and winners - chose the year's most controversial film, Green Book, as the best. The PGA presented [...]
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, [...]
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