BEST ACTOR
Best Actor — Real People, Mostly True Stories
Dick Cheney, Vincent van Gogh, Tony Vallelonga, and Freddie Mercury walk into a bar. The only one of the five...
Santa Barbara Film Festival: Rami Malek Receives Outstanding Performer Of The Year Award
We arrived in town just in time for day three of the Santa Barbara Film Festival. The Arlington Theatre's marquee...
The Actors – The Twenty Best Performers at the Top of Their Game
A great performance in a not-so-great movie is still a great performance. A great performance in a great movie is...
Rami Malek Talks About How He Found His Way Into Freddie Mercury -“Look At The Songs And His Songwriting And They Will Lead You.”
Rami Malek is without a doubt brilliant in his performance as Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody. His remarkable portrayal will rock...
Best Actor – So Many Strong Performances Makes for a Real Competition [Poll]
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There have been so many leading male performances worthy of an Oscar win this year, starting with Chadwick Boseman as...
Christian Bale Delivers Finest Performance to Date as Dick Cheney in Adam McKay’s Vice
Vice screened tonight for the SAG nominating committee and looks to do what The Big Short did last year, at...
Variety Announces Actors on Actors – Here is the Lineup
Variety partners up with PBS So Cal for Actors on Actors for their ninth season. The Oscars have always been...
Green Book Brings the House Down at its AFI Fest Premiere
Last night in Hollywood, Jazz and I attended the premiere of Green Book at the AFI Fest. Viggo Mortensen, Mahershala...
Rami Malek Astonishes as Freddie Mercury – Can He Win?
Our friend Michael Grei told me after seeing Bohemian Rhapsody that he thought Rami Malek was winning the Oscar for...
Lucas Hedges Talks Boy Erased And His Hopes For Raising Awareness About The Damage Inflicted By Gay Conversion Therapy
In Boy Erased, Lucas Hedges plays Jared Eamons, a 19-year-old boy sent by his parents to Gay Conversion Therapy. The...
Best Actor: On Heroes, Failed Heroes, Anti-Heroes
The Best Actor race usually hinges on two things. It's linked to Best Picture by an unseen umbilical cord, and...
Glenn Close, Hugh Jackman and Damien Chazelle on Tap for Hollywood Film Awards
The Hollywood Reporter announced that the notorious Hollywood Film Awards will hand out their top honors to The Wife's Glenn...
First Reformed, The Favourite Lead the 28th Annual Gotham Awards
First the good news - that Paul Schrader's First Reformed comes in with three - Feature, Screenplay and Actor for...
Critics Mostly Go Their Own Way When It Comes to Acting Awards
The next phase of the awards race will be the critics awards. As is almost always the case, they will...
A Star Is Born Becomes Titanic, Too Big to Fail and Official Oscar Frontrunner for Best Picture
I resisted the urge to call A Star Is Born the frontrunner. I guess I did this because I've been...
Damien Chazelle’s Astonishing First Man Makes Landfall
Damien Chazelle has made three major films now that have embedded themselves into American culture. Chazelle is the only American...
A Video by Chris Santana – Oscars 2019
Chris Santana has done a great job putting it all together, I think, emphasizing which films and performances are front...
A Star is Born’s Status as Oscar Frontrunner is Becoming Too Big to Ignore
I can't really fight it anymore, folks. I personally do not have the moral character to resist the category 4...
Why I’m Not Calling A Star is Born the Frontrunner Just Yet
Yesterday on Twitter I was asked by Clayton Davis of Awards Circuit and a few others why I wouldn't call...
A Star is Born Hits Big with a $42 Mil Opener – but There is Still no Best Picture Frontrunner
A Star is Born opened with a massive $42 million haul. That isn't surprising, considering it has been one of...
Peele’s ‘Twilight Zone’ Reboot Drops Trailer
Oscar-winner Jordan Peele seems poised to have a strong spring with us cinematic release Us dropping late March and his Twilight Zone...
Netflix Confirms ‘Hill House’ as Limited Series
Netflix finally confirmed today what we'd long expected. It's smash fall hit The Haunting of Hill House is officially a limited...
Interview: Constance Wu on Crow: The Legend and Shattering the Hollywood Myth
Constance Wu doesn't need "Hollywood's" permission to tell stories about other cultures. She says, "We artists always have our stories,...
Gold Derby Goes All In for Roma to Win Best Pic — But What Will Be the Biggest Surprises?
All of the major pundits at Gold Derby are 100% in for Roma. That is quite a stronghold. Either they...
All of Our Final 2019 Oscar Predictions
For the past several days we've seen our good and clever friends here at Awards Daily make their best stabs...
UPDATE: Final Ballot for the 2019 Awards Daily Oscar Project
Have you filled out your ballot? Our indispensable ballot meister Dr. Rob has generously extended the deadline for a final...
Either the Internet Is Losing Its Mind or Whoopi Goldberg Is the Secret Host
Update: ABC debunks the idea, says it's absolutely false. The Guardian is reporting that people have been discussing Whoopi Goldberg...
‘I Dreamed a Dream’ Of Another ‘Les Mis’ Adaptation!
PBS presents the first trailer for their 6 part mini series.Look down! Look down! Prepare for Misérables (it fits with the rhythm,...
Black Panther’s Ruth E. Carter and The Favourite’s Sandy Powell Costume Designer’s Guild Winners
The Costume Designer's Guild handed out their top prizes last night and Black Panther, The Favourite and Crazy Rich Asians...
Frontrunners and the Challengers as We Enter the Final Stretch of Oscar Week
For some people, this Oscar season has been "fun and exciting." For others, it's been like having the stomach flu....