Manchester by the Sea couldn't even win in Massachusetts. Swept up by the craze for Damien Chazelle's La La Land, the Boston Society of Film Critics joined other organizations in naming the L.A.-based modern musical as the year's best film. The Oscar frontrunner, starring Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, is quickly becoming an awards season phenomenon, as Boston also tabbed it for Best [...]
The Oscar race will be a marathon between these three movies: La La Land, Moonlight, and Manchester by the Sea. That's the major tea leaf confirmed by the announcement of the 74th Annual Golden Globe Awards nominees, one of the big Oscar harbingers every year. Those three films, along with their directors, were all nominated for Best Motion Picture; that [...]
For the first time ever, this year's Critics Choice Awards - given by the Broadcast Film Critics Association - were presented over a month earlier than the traditional mid-January date. This makes it the first Awards Show of the 2016 season, with the ceremony happening the night before the Golden Globes announce their nominees. WINNERS OF THE 22ND [...]
The country may still be in post-election upheaval, but the film critics in the nation's capital are singing and dancing. The Washington, D.C. Area Film Critics Association gave the musical La La Land its second Best Film win of the 2016 Awards season, following in their colleagues hoof steps (that's a dancing pun) from the New York Film Critics Circle. [...]
Well that's literally the opposite of what I was expecting. Nearly a week after the New York Film Critics Circle named La La Land the Best Film of 2016, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association chose the gay coming-of-age indie drama Moonlight as the year's Best Picture. Based on each group's pedigree, I would've predicted those choices to be [...]
Want a good idea of what the Oscar nominations will look like? Well, here you go. With the exception of the completely ignored Silence by Martin Scorsese (which didn't screen in time for the majority of critics), this year's mix of high art and populist art will likely be replicated for the most part by the [...]
Moonlight and Manchester by the Sea are quickly emerging as early favorites in the 2016 Oscar race, but La La Land is singing and dancing right behind them. Following The National Board of Review's first announcement of the Awards season, the New York Film Critics Circle has followed up with their choices for the best in movies [...]
It's Oscar time again, and Hollywood trade publication Variety has another season of their Actors on Actors series to go with it. Better and more interesting than the fluff you get on late night, these conversations are artists talking about their art as well as the life of working in the business. The setup is simple but the [...]
The 2016 Awards Season has begun. The National Board of Review has announced its choices for the best achievements in filmmaking for the past year, coming out of the gate just ahead of the New York Film Critics Circle (the two orgs have been fighting for pole position the past few years). Along with their picks for [...]
Andrew Garfield's next two films are each passion projects by Mel Gibson and Martin Scorsese - directors known for their stark violent content - and in both he'll play a Christian on a mission. Gibson's Hacksaw Ridge has been well-publicized (and likely will continue to be, leading up to its November 4 release), but Scorsese's film wrapped shooting as far back as [...]
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