Welcome to the nominees that have been invited to watch a La La Land sweep at the 89th Annual Academy Awards. (Read full list below.) After dominating Critics Groups and grabbing a record haul of 7 Golden Globe awards, the original modern musical sensation has cemented its front-runner status with a record-tying 14 Academy Award nominations, including [...]
Belated though it may be (due to conflicting professional and personal demands), here’s my list for the Best Movies of 2016. It begins with the Top 10, in ascending order, then continues with my 11 through 20 choices, and concludes with a brief listing of the other movies I really enjoyed throughout the year. Here [...]
Martin Scorsese's decades-long passion project was just renounced by the final major pre-Academy Awards guild, essentially ending its Oscar hopes (ones that were already on life support). Having been snubbed by the Screen Actors, Writers, and Producers Guilds, the Directors Guild of America - the most friendly one to Scorsese of the Big 4 - left the [...]
Deadpool doesn't have a chance at winning the Oscar for Best Picture, but now it has a legitimate shot at snagging a once-unthinkable nomination for the Academy's top prize. After the surprise Best Adapted Screenplay nod from the Writers Guild of America, the Producers Guild of America followed up with a legitimate shocker by adding Deadpool to its [...]
It's official: La La Land is the biggest slam dunk Oscar favorite in a generation, probably since Schindler's List. Going 7-for-7 in an unprecedented sweep, including a win for Best Motion Picture (Musical or Comedy), the original tuner beat the previous record of 6 Golden Globe wins set by One Flew Over The Cukoo's Nest in 1975 (and tied by Midnight Express in 1978). [...]
The final major Critics Group has its say. It all sounds very familiar. Following the traditional holiday break in Awards Season hype, the National Society of Film Critics kicked off another New Year by reigniting the Oscar Push from now through the end of February. No shockers here. If anything, the NSFC's pick for Best [...]
A Marvel movie with a major guild nomination? Bad Deadpool makes for a Good Deadpool with the Writers Guild of America. It joins ten other movies in three film categories for the 69th Annual WGA Nominations. Could it be a harbinger of Academy love for the crass superhero movie, both in the screenplay category and [...]
The OFCC fell for La La Land, too. Announcing its winners via a Twitter rollout, The Oklahoma Film Critics Circle (disclaimer: I'm a member) began 2017 by revealing its choices for the Best In Film for 2016. And for the first time in its 10 year history, the OFCC also included the group's runner-up citations in each category. While the expected suspects made the cut (La La [...]
This isn't a Top 10 list, but it's close. Through early and mid-December, fellow Tulsa Voice film critic Joe O'Shansky and I had an ongoing back-and-forth about where our heads and hearts were at in the middle of the year-end Awards screener season. We were considering many worthy contenders for that final 10. This is [...]
Slow that roll, La La Land. In what seemed like a quickly growing consensus toward a Best Picture win for the modern day musical romance, the Screen Actors Guild denied La La Land a nomination in its biggest category, Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture (their Best Picture equivalent). Stars Emma Stone [...]
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