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Producers Guild Nominees
The Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures: Ø The Big Short Producers: Brad Pitt & Dede G...
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The State of the Race: A Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far, Far Away
The time has come to humbly admit that some of us may have been wrong about Star Wars: The Force Awakens. First, by not seeing how fa...
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From Darkness to Light: The Case for Ridley Scott and The Martian
Ridley Scott’s masterpiece Alien rewrote the rules of horror and science fiction. His murky, acid rain-drenched noir Blade Runner did...
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The Case for Inside Out
No 2015 movie pleased the critics and enchanted audiences while embracing creativity and tugging on heart strings as successfully as ...
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Predictions Friday: There Still is No Captain of This Ship
Even when people complain about what a bad year it’s been for film — and believe it or not, some do — the same films ofte...
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Masters and Mavericks – The Best Directors of the Year
The 1970s have turned out to be the best film school. Those filmmakers who were lucky enough to rise during that era found the...
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The Case for Straight Outta Compton
When Straight Outta Compton dropped, earned good reviews and made a ton of money, its success was chased by valid rumblings that the ...
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The State of the Race: It’s All Come Down to Now, Oscar Ballots Go Out Wednesday
Oscar Voting Begins on Wednesday. By the time the ballots are in voters hands, most of them will already know what movies they’re vot...
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The Hateful Eight, Tarantino and that Misogyny Word
It seems there has been a bit of a misunderstanding about the word “misogyny” as it relates to Quentin Tarantino’s ...
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Best Picture Stat Game: The Big Short and Spotlight Head for the Win
It’s Christmas, but for some reason my head is on the stats of Oscar season. Two things have happened so far, probably not many...
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Predictions Friday a Day Early – Predicting an Anomaly
Year after year, we in the predicting business become accustomed to predicting things that rarely happen. We’re comfortable pre...
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Steve Pond’s preferential ballot system produces 10 nominees for the First Time – Will O...
There is much debate on Twitter happening over the idea that the Academy’s preferential system, where they have five nomination...
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This One Goes to 11 – The Critics Vote to Add The Force Awakens to Best Picture and only Best ...
What do you call a problem like a massive cultural moment? Star Wars: The Force Awakens is either going to go down in film history as...
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The Case for Tangerine
There are so many films about women this year that voters actually have choices. Old women, young women, women in love, gay women, su...
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The State of the Race: Inside the Doomsday Machine
“I think this was a nice idea we had in this country and a nice landscape to experiment with. But I think there comes a time in almos...
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The Martian Wins Prestigious Science in Cinema Award
Indiewire.com gets the exclusive video of the inaugural prize for Science in Cinema to The Martian. “We wanted to live up to th...
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Can Star Wars: The Force Awakens Crash Best Picture? Ask Inside Out
All the talk around town is whether Star Wars can break into the Best Picture race. Scott Feinberg at the Hollywood Reporter has it l...
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Predictions Friday – Spotlight, Tom McCarthy Take the Lead as Pundits Wonder if it Will Split
Birdman. Most of us in the punditry world still don’t have an explanation for Birdman’s sudden popularity among industry ...
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At Last, A Consensus Emerges in the Best Picture Race
The Oscar race seems to be slowly forming a consensus around a few films. There are other films that exist outside the consensus, and...
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That Record Breaking Ensemble Nomination for Beasts of No Nation
In the flurry of SAG nominations, and the shocking realization that Spotlight was the only film being talked about to win Best Pictur...