Whiplash

People happen to us. They step in front of us, the stand behind us, they tower over us, they love us, they need us, they hate us, they remember us, they forget us, they inspire us, they help us. We are here with and for each other. It’s…

Best Actress has been an unexciting race this year because Julianne Moore has been the projected winner since her shining reviews for Still Alice emerged from the Toronto Film Festival in September. Moore has never won an Academy Award,…

The shorts category is always joked about by people predicting the race because they have traditionally been only seen by the Academy voters. In recent years that has changed so that journalists get to watch and review them and they…

This weekend, the all important Ace Eddies will be held and two films will win in their individual categories - drama and musical/comedy. The common wisdom right now is that BOYMAN or BIRDHOOD will prevail - and that Boyhood will win in…

This year, it seems as though precedent could be broken in several key ways, chief among them, it might be the first year the Academy goes a different way from the Producers Guild, giving Boyhood the win over Birdman (they might settle…

“The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.” ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye The awards race ruins movies. It ruins every…

The Screen Actors Guild Awards were handed out in Hollywood. Eddie Redmayne took home Best Actor for his portrayal of Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything. J.K Simmons won Best Supporting Actor for Whiplash, and Julianne Moore took…

How are AwardsDaily readers doing so far for their predictions for our contest? It's pretty much going as expected all the way down the line: Birdman Michael Keaton, Birdman Julianne Moore, Still Alice Patricia Arquette, Boyhood JK…

The SAG awards are also happening this Sunday. With Jennifer Aniston out of the Oscar race and Marion Cotillard in, that makes predicting Best Actress kind of tough, although it's mostly still Julianne Moore's to lose. The SAG will be the…

The Oscar race feels as disconnected from American culture than it has ever been. The discussion of film awards has turned into a discussion of art and politics. Women disappearing from the Oscar movies, a voting body made up mostly of…

And the winners: 35th LONDON CRITICS' CIRCLE FILM AWARDS WINNERS FILM OF THE YEAR Boyhood (Universal) FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM OF THE YEAR Leviathan (Curzon Artificial Eye) BRITISH FILM OF THE YEAR Under the…

Now that almost every single film critic in the country has published their top ten list, we can sit back, relax and think about the upcoming year, a year which will bring forth more sequels than ever before and an industry that –…

The BAFTA pushed its date back to be before the Oscars in 2000. The USC Scripter began giving out their awards in 1997. The Golden Globes only has one category for screenplay, which includes original and adapted. Only the Critics Choice,…

Rob has been pulling all-nighters to crunch the data on Awards Daily's 7th Annual Oscar Ballot simulation. The results are on his website devoted to the project, details displayed in a set of meticulous pdf spreadsheets. The data looks…

The Best Picture race has just got a little more interesting. Where Boyhood still has the lead, it has two movies to beat and both are very strong films in the race all of a sudden. The biggest surprise of all is the appearance of…

Best Picture – “Boyhood” Best Actor – Michael Keaton, “Birdman” Best Actress – Julianne Moore, “Still Alice” Best Supporting Actor – J.K. Simmons, “Whiplash” Best Supporting Actress – Patricia Arquette, “Boyhood” Best Young…

There could be some strange surprises with the Critics Choice, wherein some people could win that weren't even nominated for an Oscar.  Here are the nominees. I have bolded the likely winner in red and NOMINATIONS FOR THE 20th ANNUAL…

Nominations for the 87th Academy Awards Best motion picture of the year “American Sniper” Clint Eastwood, Robert Lorenz, Andrew Lazar, Bradley Cooper and Peter Morgan, Producers “Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)”…

It's all come down to this, my friends. A preferential ballot for all too enabled Academy voters. It's hard to know  how this thing will go. There are so many conflicting narratives that run through it, so many different types of people…