Category: Awards

Roma is crossing all borders now. The Toronto Film Critics Association became the latest group of critics to name Roma the Best Film of 2018. They join their colleagues from New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia. Alfonso Cuarón was also name Best Director for his passion project. Ethan Hawke (First Reformed), Olivia Colman (The Favourite), and Regina King [...]

Now we're finally starting to see a trend. The Philadelphia Film Critics Circle became the third critics group of 2018 to name Alfonso Cuaron's Roma the year's Best Film, joining New York and Chicago. It also won Best Foreign Language Film (it's set in Mexico). But then for director Philly zagged, naming Barry Jenkins the best helmer [...]

The two films that appear to be the collective critical favorites this year are Roma and First Reformed, in that order. Even with the diversity of Best Film choices so far in the early critics groups, the Chicago Film Critics Association joined their New York colleagues in naming Roma the Best Film of 2018; it won 5 [...]

This Oscar race is all over the place. No clear front runner emerged when the nominations for the 76th Golden Globe Awards were announced. Of the films that led the Globe pack, only one dominated across most eligible categories. Surprise snubs popped up throughout (or didn't, as the case may be), plus there was the [...]

The American Film Institute - known to most as the org that broadcast Top 100 Movie list specials at the turn of the century - announced their 19th Annual AFI Awards, which includes a Top 10 List for the year's best movies. It doesn't name a single movie for Best Film of the Year; it simply [...]

Four critics groups. Four different choices for Best Film. Following The National Board of Review's pick of Green Book, the New York Film Critics Circle love for Roma,  and the Atlanta Film Critics Circle embrace of The Favourite, the Detroit Film Critics Society named Eighth Grade as the Best Film of 2018. "Gucci!", as its star would say. It's [...]

It's still early, but the year's Oscar race is wide open. Three different films have dominated the first three critics groups. Green Book took the top prize from The National Board of Review, then the New York Film Critics Circle honored Roma. Now, the Atlanta Film Critics Circle have completely embraced The Favourite, which they [...]

For the first time in its history, Netflix is officially on the board as a major Oscar contender. Their 1970s Mexico-set Spanish language drama Roma -- from Academy Award-winning director Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity) -- was named Best Film of 2018 by the New York Film Critics Circle. Cuarón also won for Best Director and Best Cinematography; [...]

The 2018 Oscar Race has begun, and green catches the first gold. The National Board of Review was the first (in what will be a long line of year-end critics groups) to announce its annual choices for the best achievements in filmmaking, naming Green Book the Best Film of 2018. In addition, the Board also published [...]