UPDATE: The critics of the Critics Choice Awards have added Star Wars: The Force Awakens to their list of Best Picture nominees, doing so over a week after their original announcement - which occurred, of course, prior to the film being screened. The Force Awakens has not been added to any other categories. This is the 2nd [...]
The Golden Globe Nominations have made one thing clear: nothing's clear in this year's Oscar race. First, Spotlight and Mad Max: Fury Road dominated early critics group choices. Then Trumbo, Beasts Of No Nation, and The Big Short were embraced by the Screen Actors Guild. Now today, Carol (which won the New York Film Critics top prize) [...]
The Oscar Race just got more confusing, and intriguing. Trumbo, the true story satire about a Hollywood screenwriter from the Blacklist era, hadn’t made a blip in the early critics group lists. Yet today, it made the biggest splash when The Screen Actors Guild announced the nominees for their 22nd Annual Awards with 3 Nominations [...]
Spotlight is officially the Oscar front-runner. The Washington, D.C. Area Film Critics Association gave the real-life drama its 3rd Best Film prize so far out of the 5 major critics groups that have announced. Spotlight also took Best Acting Ensemble. Meanwhile, fellow critics contender Mad Max: Fury Road picked up 3 wins from the D.C. gang, including Best Director for George [...]
This past week, the first four major Critics Groups announced their choices for the best in film of 2015. If you missed any of their picks for Best Picture, Actor, Actress, and more - and which films are taking early leads as contenders - click on the links below for each group's list. National Board of Review [...]
The critics from LA and Boston must be drinking the same kool-aid. Spotlight had a banner afternoon, and Mad Max: Fury Road is solidifying itself as a major Oscar contender. The Los Angeles Film Critics Association became the 4th group of the Awards season - and second of the day (Sunday, December 6th) - to name their picks for [...]
The Boston Society of Film Critics became the third group of the 2015 Awards season to name their winners - and it should come as no surprise that the lauded Boston-based true life drama Spotlight took their top spot for Best Picture. In addition, the Oscar contender notched two other wins for Best Ensemble Cast and Best [...]
The New York Film Critics Circle honored the very arthouse films that the National Board of Review ignored. A day after the NBR got the 2015 Awards Season rolling by naming Mad Max: Fury Road the Best Film Of The Year, the critics of New York chose Carol, the universally acclaimed 1950s period piece about a star-crossed [...]
Well how about that? The 2015 Awards season has officially begun, and The National Board of Review named the summer action tentpole Mad Max: Fury Road Best Film of 2015. The surreal directorial vision from George Miller (click here for my review) received universal praise when it was released in May, and now this honor all-but-solidifies MM:FR as being [...]
I was wondering if this was going to happen. The fact that it's even possible - with the 7th turn as such an iconic character, no less - is amazing, but with the filmmaking pedigree of director Ryan Coogler, it probably shouldn't be a surprise that Sylvester Stallone has become an early Oscar front-runner for the first time [...]
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