Released: February 16, 2017 Runtime: 134 minutes Program: Oscar Nominated Live Action Shorts for 2017 (Parental Discretion advised) During every Oscar ceremony, there’s a stretch of categories with nominees that virtually no one has ever even heard of, let alone seen: the shorts. Divided into three competitive groups – Animated, Live Action, and Documentary – the Academy Award nominated [...]
In the last major guild ceremony before the Academy Awards on March 4, winners went according to the awards season script as the Writers Guild of America announced their choices for the best screenplays of 2017. Jordan Peele won Original Screenplay for his debut film Get Out, while legendary Brit filmmaker James Ivory won the Adapted [...]
There's belated, then there's overdue, and then waaaaaay past that there's "What's even the point?" A February 2018 publication of a 2017 Top 10 List essentially falls into the final category, but hey, what the heck. Here it is, for the record: my choices for the Best Films of 2017. It begins with the Top 10, [...]
The DGA is following the 2017 Awards Season script. As expected, the Directors Guild of America presented their 70th award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in a Feature Film to Guillermo del Toro for his Cold War period fantasy fable The Shape of Water. This follows del Toro wins at the Golden Globes and Critics Choice [...]
UPDATED: 11:15 A.M. Jan. 23 This year, the Academy didn't bite on the Oscar bait. The headline from the announcement of the 90th Annual Academy Awards is that, as expected, The Shape of Water led the pack with 13 nominations including Best Picture, Actress (Sally Hawkins), and Director (Guillermo del Toro). That's one short of [...]
For the Oscar nerds out there, here are my predictions of who and what the Academy will nominate on Tuesday morning for their 90th Annual Awards - in all categories but three (Live Action Short, Animated Short, and Documentary Short). For the Best Picture category, the Academy rules state that there can be "up to 10" nominees, but 10 [...]
The Oscar race is over before the nominations have even been announced. In one night, the 2017/18 Awards Season went from being the most wide open in memory to being locked in. If you're a betting person, put your Best Picture money on Three Billboards. Then lay more down on all four acting categories. Not [...]
The shape of the Oscar race curved towards water at the 29th Annual Producers Guild of America awards gala, giving the Darryl F. Zanuck top prize for Best Film to The Shape of Water. It's a producer-y pick as picks go, favoring a film with bigger production ambitions than smaller films can match. The Post [...]
It's official: two locks for Oscar wins just got unlocked. For the first phase of the awards season - a.k.a. Critics Groups - the Supporting Actor and Actress categories were dominated by Willem Dafoe (The Florida Project) and Laurie Metcalf (Lady Bird). They had become the safest bets of the entire Oscar season. Then the [...]
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