Netflix is really gaining steam, with The Irishman leading the way. The Critics Choice Awards (produced by the Broadcast Film Critics Association, whose membership is nationwide) unveiled the nominees for their 25th annual ceremony and Martin Scorsese's mob epic led the way, garnering nominations for Picture, Director, Adapted Screenplay, Actor (Robert De Niro), Supporting Actor (Al [...]
L.A. Film Critics may have just sealed Parasite's fate as a major Oscar player. Buzz has been building for the South Korean suspense thriller ever since the film won top honors at this summer's Cannes Film Festival. Now, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association -- right in the heart of Hollywood -- have given it [...]
The American Film Institute -- known to most as the organization that broadcast TV specials for the Top 100 Movie Lists at the turn of the century -- announced their 20th Annual AFI Awards, a Top 10 List for the year's best movies. It doesn't name a single film as Best of the Year; it [...]
Netflix and native New Yorkers were responsible for the best of filmmaking in 2019, according to the prestigious New York Film Critics Circle. For the second year in a row, the NYFCC has named Netflix's big epic Oscar contender as the year's Best Film. In 2018 that was Roma; for 2019, it's Martin Scorsese's The [...]
For 2019, The National Board of Review embraces cinema. The film society that has existed since the early days of movies (now in its 110th year) has released its annual picks for the best achievements in film, naming Martin Scorsese's The Irishman the Best Film of 2019. The Board also tapped the mob epic's screenwriter [...]
Well this is new. For the first time in memory, the annual awards season doesn't begin with The National Board of Review. That's thanks to the upstarts down in Atlanta. Traditionally, the NBR and the New York Film Critics Circle have been the opening 1-2 salvo that kicks off the onslaught of critics groups. But [...]
The Swamp is coming for the Oscars. In a shocking -- and completely outrageous -- shot across the bow from none other than the United States Federal Government, the Department Of Justice served a letter to the Academy of Motion Pictures of Arts & Sciences warning them to tread lightly when it comes to rule [...]
Twenty years ago (when the Academy Awards were still in late March), one of the biggest Oscar upsets of all time went down in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion: Shakespeare in Love beat Saving Private Ryan for Best Picture. In this feature story for Collider, I make the case for why the Academy got it right. [...]
Streaming is TV. You can distill Steven Spielberg's opposition to Netflix competing for Academy Awards down to those three words. (Full disclosure: I'm #TeamSpielberg on this one.) Spielberg is about to make an official argument to the board of the Academy, the film industry org that produces the Oscars, that rules of eligibility should change. [...]
The biggest winner of the night? The Academy. (The list of actual winners can be seen at the bottom of this in-depth Oscar night analysis.) After a toxic awards season that was often completely outside of the Academy's control but was then further complicated by the Academy and its constant mishandling of how it was producing the [...]
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