Where a film is placed in festival season can sometimes help determine how it will land in the Oscar race....
Read moreThe Oscars are now in their 94th year and are attempting to survive in a changing industry and world. Like...
Read moreFor the second year in a row we are seeing what the Oscar race looks like when voters have time...
Read moreSo much has changed in the 22 years I've been writing about the Oscars. I see my own influence on...
Read moreToday's nominations felt very strange. It wasn't just leaving Lady Gaga off the list, which was surreal. If there was...
Read moreMost of us probably believed 2021 and 2022 would be better than 2020. Now that we've begun 2022, it doesn't...
Read moreThe first year I covered the Oscars, you could feel them coming. They were a big event. They held them...
Read moreYou have to be someone who is mildly obsessed with episodes of mass hysteria throughout history, like I am, to...
Read moreWhen we think about the Big Oscar movies of the past we think of Titanic, the Godfather, Gone with the...
Read moreSomewhere between critics and audiences should sit the Oscars. As critics have become more insular, what drives success in Hollywood...
Read moreWe are arriving at the point of the Oscar race that I dread every year. Until the nominations come down,...
Read moreWest Side Story screened yesterday for press and various other sorts. In an ordinary year, this film probably would be...
Read moreIt should go without saying that the next couple of years are going to be brutal to live through and...
Read moreActors dominate the Oscars. They don't dominate the Golden Globes, the Producers Guild, or the Directors Guild. They only sort...
Read moreListen to this article. In 1968, America was going through a massive upheaval culturally. We were transitioning. Where civil rights,...
Read moreIt's been surreal watching the past few days of the eruption between Dave Chappelle, Ted Sarandos, a handful of activists,...
Read moreAfter watching Ridley Scott's The Last Duel, and having now seen both No Time to Die and Dune, I think...
Read moreAs we edge ever so closely to the 100th year of the Oscars, we find ourselves at a crossroads. How...
Read moreWhen you hear someone call something "McCarthyism" what they really mean is the "Red Scare" that inspired McCarthyism. The panic...
Read moreI was sent an anonymous DM today that I would like to answer publicly - I have no idea who...
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