The Los Angeles Film Critics Association has named a 5-part Amazon series about racial turmoil the year's Best Film.
Category: Awards
New York Film Critics Brand FIRST COW As Best Film (AWARDS 2020)
The New York Film Critics Circle, one of the most prestigious critics groups, award their choices for the best in film for 2020.
Boston Critics Name NOMADLAND Best Film of 2020 (AWARDS 2020)
The Boston Society of Film Critics launch the annual Awards Season with their choices for the Best of 2020.
New Academy Rules Set Representation Standards For Best Picture Nominees (AWARDS/ANALYSIS)
Dramatic change is coming to Oscar's biggest award category. Or is it?
Oscars Delayed By Two Months, Along With Eligibility Calendar (AWARDS 2020)
Awards season just shifted from winter to spring, and the Oscars will essentially kick off the summer movie season. For most of its history, the Academy Awards were held primarily between late-March and mid-April. As the culture sped up in the social media age, so did the awards calendar; in 2004, the Oscars moved to [...]
Oscars Tweak One Rule For Pandemic; Combine Two Categories (AWARDS 2020)
Chalk one up for Netflix. At least for now. Kind of. The mega-streamer has long been frustrated by one of the Academy's requirements for Oscar eligibility. To compete for Oscar gold, a film must debut in theaters and play exclusively on that platform (in New York or LA) for at least one week. In other [...]
THE 92ND ANNUAL ACADEMY AWARDS: Analysis & Full List of Winners (AWARDS 2019)
We may not have witnessed the biggest upset in Oscar history (that still goes to 2016’s Moonlight), but the 92nd annual ceremony ended with what was arguably the Academy Awards' biggest breakthrough. Right there with Kathryn Bigelow’s glass-ceiling shattering first female win for Best Director with The Hurt Locker, Bong Joon-ho’s South Korean thriller Parasite became the [...]
My Predictions For The 92nd Academy Awards (AWARDS 2019)
Here are my predictions for who will win at The 92nd Annual Academy Awards, along with my "Who Should Win" preferences. I also provide my thinking behind each prediction, while also offering what I think are the other strong contenders in each category (if there are any). The ceremony will take place on Sunday night February [...]
OSCAR SHORTS: Reviews & Predix For Animated, Docs, & Live Action (AWARDS 2019)
When it comes to Oscar pools, the make-or-break categories are the three for short films: Animated, Documentary, and Live Action. Below are links to my reviews for those three separate categories. These short film packages are playing in theaters nationwide in two different ways: As three separate feature length collections, one for each category (you're [...]
MY TOP 10 LIST FOR 2019
Yes, I'm a Top 10 straggler, but I'd rather be sure about my choices than second-guess them down the road. Rushing out a list during the onslaught of screening season, simply to meet the obligatory date of December 31st, doesn't allow for proper consideration, especially with so many contenders dumped out en masse at year's [...]
I Can't Unsee That Movie: film news and reviews by Jeff Huston 