“If you can look into the seeds of time, And say which grain will grow and which will not, Speak then to me.” Twice during Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln, a collection of glass plate photographs are featured. Lincoln’s son, 10-year-old Tad, is preoccupied with studying these photos, some...
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According to Oscar/DGA history, no director has ever won the DGA, lost an Oscar nomination for directing, then won Best Picture. It’s not happened ever, going back to 1949. So if this is a crazy year, as everyone keeps saying, you will see something happen that has never happened. On the other hand, it’s possible that (I don’t know for sure) the...
When was the last time a masterpiece won the Best Picture Oscar? It is perhaps not possible anymore, not with Twitter and more awards shows than there are people in Hollywood. Voters can’t align around one so they choose never to align around any. As the DGA prepares their awards show for tomorrow night, and 14,500 of them are voting, it seems very likely it will...
ENTER OUR CONTEST! For 82 out of 86 Oscar years the directors have controlled the way Best Picture has been handed down. They matter. They are what the Academy was built to do: professionals deciding the best of the year. The entire Academy has looked to them for guidance in almost every year of their existence. Yet this year, suddenly, they don’t matter. What...