The Academy decided to push up the Oscars next year to February 9, a few weeks before its previous date...
Read moreYes, Iggy Pop and Tom Waits are in this thing, along with Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Tilda Swinton, Chloë Sevigny,...
Read moreThe times are changing and they're changing fast. Steven Spielberg is apparently leading a charge of Academy members to block...
Read moreAn anonymous ballot (really, after all that's been said, why be anonymous? Grow a pair, pal) reveals how one member...
Read moreMarshall Flores and I have been running - what he calls - sims (simulations) for the preferential ballot on Facebook....
Read moreYou've been with us through the boring years, through the predictable years, through good times and bad. You've been here...
Read moreNo one really seems to know if this year will indeed be as unpredictable as it seems right now. If...
Read moreAll of the major pundits at Gold Derby are 100% in for Roma. That is quite a stronghold. Either they...
Read moreFor some people, this Oscar season has been "fun and exciting." For others, it's been like having the stomach flu....
Read moreFor most of the time I've been covering the Oscars (going on 20 years now) and throughout their 90 year...
Read moreThe critics now are different from how they used to be. For whatever reason, the critics often fall into groupthink...
Read moreThis grim and fretful Oscar season, which should be much more of a celebration than the fear and panic in...
Read moreIn the era of the expanded ballot, screenplay honors have been tied more closely to Best Picture than even a...
Read moreAt last week’s Santa Barbara Film Festival Paul Schrader praised Lady Gaga in A Star Is Born calling her “a...
Read moreOur latest podcast was recorded before the news today, oh boy, about the categories. We talk BAFTA wins and of...
Read morePlan A - "Add a popular film category," said the Academy. "That might help bring back those who have long...
Read moreYesterday, Roma won Best Film and Best Director at the BAFTAs, setting into motion that old seductive idea that the...
Read moreThis is the most fertile time for final Oscar voting, for surges and for smears. It's like how Trump talked...
Read moreBy Jenny Boulden My jaw dropped a few times on Oscar nomination morning. We always know there will be snubs,...
Read moreThere are two events upcoming where BlacKkKlansman could stage an 11th hour coup. They are the Writers Guild Awards, which...
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