The night's big winner now has more Globes than Billboards. Writer/Director Martin McDonagh's Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, about a mother in a rural town who stands up to local police for neglecting justice in her daughter's rape/murder case, was the big winner at the 75th Golden Globe Awards, winning 4 including Best Motion Picture [...]
Put a bunch of film critics from across the nation into a New York room and what movie can they all agree on? Lady Bird, which took top honors from The National Society of Film Critics for 2017's Best Film, Best Director and Best Screenplay - all going to Greta Gerwig. Gerwig has long been [...]
It may not be the final Best Picture Oscar list, but it's close. The nominations for the 29th Annual Producers Guild of America awards - honoring the best produced movies of 2017 - have been announced. An equivalent to the Academy Awards' Best Picture category, the PGA nominations are always a good sign of where [...]
Of all the industry guilds, the Writers is the biggest wild card. Snubs aren't only normal; they're ingrained into the legalese of the org's eligibility rules. Due to arcane requirements in their "Minimum Basic Agreement", the Writers Guild of America annually overlooks some of the season's major Academy Award contenders. Those most often overlooked are [...]
The OFCC joined other critics groups to lift Get Out from The Sunken Place. Announcing its winners via a Twitter rollout, The Oklahoma Film Critics Circle (disclaimer: I'm a member) began 2018 by revealing its choices for the Best In Film for 2017. Along with a Top 10 List - which saw Get Out eek past The Shape of Water in a tie-breaking vote [...]
Happy New Year indeed. On the last day of 2017, my blog was cited among 9 others by the New York based AwardsCircuit.com. The website dedicated to Oscar / Emmy / Grammy / Tony news named "I Can't Unsee That Movie" as one of "a few up and comers in the film journalism/blogger community." It [...]
After a recent trend toward Get Out among critics groups, the Chicago Film Critics Association brought it back around to early favorite Lady Bird. The debut directing feature from actress Greta Gerwig (who also wrote the screenplay, loosely inspired by her senior year in high school), Lady Bird also took Best Actress honors for Saoirse [...]
The Atlanta Film Critics Circle recently announced their first-ever year end citations, naming Get Out Best Film. The nod furthers that movie's surging Awards Season momentum. Christopher Nolan has been surprisingly overlooked - until now. The AFCC named him Best Director for his experimental WWII epic Dunkirk. The rest of the winners look familiar to what [...]
If the history of the Screen Actors Guild nominations is any indication, the following major Oscar contenders now have no shot at winning the Academy Award for Best Picture: - Call Me By Your Name - The Shape of Water - The Post - Dunkirk And throw in The Florida Project for good measure. Why? [...]
Finally, a critics group that dares to go against the conventional tide. Okay, not so much with Get Out, a worthy choice for Best Film that's actually gaining steam with more and more critics groups. It's in the lead acting categories, where James McAvoy gets a surprise win for his spectacular turn as the metaphysical [...]
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