If the history of the Screen Actors Guild nominations is any indication, the following major Oscar contenders now have no shot at winning the Academy Award for Best Picture: - Call Me By Your Name - The Shape of Water - The Post - Dunkirk And throw in The Florida Project for good measure. Why? [...]
Finally, a critics group that dares to go against the conventional tide. Okay, not so much with Get Out, a worthy choice for Best Film that's actually gaining steam with more and more critics groups. It's in the lead acting categories, where James McAvoy gets a surprise win for his spectacular turn as the metaphysical [...]
The Philadelphia Film Critics Circle showed some brotherly love to Get Out in their first annual year-end awards. It's another Best Picture win this Awards Season for writer / director Jordan Peele's horror racism allegory, following top honors from the Washington D.C. Film Critics Association. Philly also gave Peele his first major critics group award for [...]
The critics awards keep rolling in, and now Canada's premiere group adds its list. The Toronto Film Critics Association showed a lot of love for indie efforts, with The Florida Project, Lady Bird, and Get Out each garnering two awards. The big winner was The Florida Project, which was named the year's Best Picture. Willem Dafoe also continued [...]
The Oscar race is taking on the shape of water. That pun refers not only to The Shape of Water, which leads the 75th Golden Globe Awards with 7 nominations, but also to how fluid this year's Oscar race remains. Guillermo del Toro's Cold War fantasy drama joins Steven Spielberg's The Post (6 nominations) as the [...]
As in many things, San Francisco went its own way. The San Francisco Film Critics Circle named The Florida Project the year's Best Picture, a rare top win for director Sean Baker's indie about poverty near Walt Disney World (although it's also been cited by some Online Critics groups). Guillermo del Toro got some traction, too, with [...]
The 2017 Oscar Season continues to morph and change. What first appeared to be a race focusing on The Post, Lady Bird, Call Me By Your Name, and The Shape of Water as the main Best Picture contenders has now expanded. The Boston Society of Film Critics has added Paul Thomas Anderson's Phantom Thread to the [...]
For the first time this awards season, Get Out has emerged from The Sunken Place. More importantly, by naming Get Out the Best Film of 2017, the Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association stepped outside the trending convention of limiting the top honor to the trio of The Post, Call Me By Your Name, or Lady Bird, or [...]
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 18th Annual AFI Awards, which includes a Top 10 List for the year's best movies. With no categories like Best Actor, Actress, Director, etc., the AFI is much less of [...]
Want a good idea of what the Oscar nominations will look like? Here you go. It's difficult to imagine this year's Academy Awards finalists looking much different from what you see as the for the 23rd Annual Critics Choice Awards. That said, the big news here is the leader of the pack: The Shape of Water. With [...]
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