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, [...]
You can make a new A Star Is Born meme again, this time replacing the Lady Gaga look-backs to Bradley Cooper with a Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association logo. The box office hit remake won Best Picture of 2018 from the group in central Texas. And that's all it won. Meanwhile, critic consensus fave Roma took three [...]
There were few (but big) surprises and several disappointments at the announcement for the 25th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards. The gala, now celebrating a quarter-century, is the first major industry guild to show their cards and give the strongest hint yet as to where The Academy's acting branch will lean on their Oscar ballots. [...]
Just when Roma looked unstoppable... One day after Alfonso Cuarón's passion project swept six different critics groups honors, the actual Critics' Choice Awards flipped the script. Fueled by a stellar actress trio and a deep bench of craft achievements, The Favourite led the 24th annual Critics' Choice slate with 14 nominations including Best Picture. Marvel's [...]
It's difficult to remember the last time one movie dominated an awards season like Roma suddenly has. After an initial slate of critics group picked one different "Best Film" after another, Netflix's big Oscar contender from Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity, Children of Men) has become an absolute juggernaut in the span of one day. When the San Francisco [...]
December 9 was a big day for Roma, capped by a Best Picture win from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. It was a clean sweep for the personal passion project from Oscar-winning director Alfonso Cuarón. His Spanish-language film from Mexico (and distributed by Netflix) went 5-for-5, winning the Best Film awards from the Chicago, [...]
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