Oscars 2024: The Golden Globes Are Now 60% Diverse
The HFPA have done everything that's been demanded of them to comply, to repair their image, to do bylaws, DEI mandate that, add new members, more bylaws this and that and whatnot, and all the while hoping to gain back their luster after being swarmed and canceled by the activists who now police the film industry. Good times, my friends. Good times. In case you're wondering why more people don't talk about it, it's for two reasons. The first, they're true believers. They are 100% down with everything we've just lived through and want more of it. They think the witch hunt was "necessary" and...
Middleburg Film Festival Announces ‘Zone of Interest,’ ‘American Fiction,’ and ‘Maestro’
The Middleburg Film Festival announced additional programming today for its 11th anniversary edition including THE ZONE OF INTEREST as the Friday Centerpiece, AMERICAN FICTION as the Saturday Spotlight film and MAESTRO as the Closing Film. MFF also announced additional honorees and special guests attending the festival for various awards, conversations and special presentations including actor Christian Friedel (The Zone of...
Shorts: Out On Film’s 2023 Slate Offers Gorgeous Slate of Diverse Films
I've always admired Atlanta's Out on Film from afar. I have never been lucky enough to attend the festival, but I was thrilled to have an opportunity to watch some of the short films on this year's slate. An Oscar-qualifying film festival, Out on Film will catapult the winner of its short film award into consideration for the 96th annual...
NYFF Review: Foe
Garth Davis’ Foe, a sci-fi chamber drama based on the eponymous novel by Iain Reid, with whom Davis co-wrote the script, starts off well enough. Set in the midst of or toward the end of our current prolonged apocalypse, Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal star as married farmers on seemingly barren land in the year 2065, past the time where...
2024 Oscar Predictions: The Frontrunners and Their Challengers
The dirty little secret about the Oscar game is that there is no such thing as a "frontrunner." Oh, we pretend there is. We imagine it. We predict it. We manifest it. But it actually doesn't exist. It's never been quite as bad as it right now, mainly because there used to actually be an economy attached to the Oscars....
NYFF Review: Poor Things
Poor Things, Yorgos Lanthimos’ surreal, hyper-sexual follow-up to The Favourite, may start with a death, but it’s soon after filled with life from every department of the crew. Based on the 1992 novel of the same name by Alasdair Gray, the film boasts unabashed creativity in every corner. The lush production design transports us to a fantastical version of turn-of-the-century...
NYFF Review: May December
When depicting a sensitive, personal, and ongoing true story, what responsibility does an artist have to a victim? When is capturing that story for hungry audiences not worth re-inflicting the pain onto those who experience the situation firsthand? With May December, veteran auteur Todd Haynes and screenwriter Samy Burch, making her feature-length debut, set out to explore the purpose and...
Montclair Film Announces Complete 2023 Montclair Film Festival Program
Today, Montclair Film announced the full slate for the 2023 Montclair Film Festival, taking place October 20-29, in Montclair, NJ. Each year, the Montclair Film Festival presents juried awards to films in four categories; Documentary, Fiction, Future/ Now, which seeks to support emerging voices in independent filmmaking with The Mark Urman Award, a $5,000 cash prize to help support &...
Shadan’s TIFF Diary Part V: Docs, ‘Dicks’ and a Final Goodbye to TIFF 2023
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Shadan’s TIFF Diary Part IV: Anatomy of a Fall, The Beast, and More Non-English Language Films Stun in Toronto
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AFI Fest 2023 Announces Lineup
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NYFF Review: The Boy and the Heron
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NYFF Review: Evil Does Not Exist
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2024 Oscar TRACKER
SO FAR...
Best PictureOppenheimer
Killers of the Flower Moon
Poor Things
The Holdovers
Barbie
American Fiction
Past Lives
Zone of Interest
Anatomy of a Fall
Maestro
Rustin
The Killer
Saltburn
Priscilla
The Bikeriders Best ActorCillian Murphy, Oppenheimer
Leonardo DiCaprio, Killers of the Flower Moon
Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers
Bradley Cooper, Maestro
Jeffrey Wright, American Fiction
Colman Domingo, Rustin
Michael Fassbender, The Killer
Peter Sarsgaard, Memory
Barry Koeghan, Saltburn
Michael Fassbender, The Killer
Best Actress Emma Stone, Poor Things
Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon
Sandra Huller, Anatomy of a Fall
Carey Mulligan, Maestro
Margot Robbie, Barbie
Jodie Comer, The Bikeriders
Greta Lee, Past Lives
Best Supporting ActorRobert Downey, Jr., Oppenheimer
Mark Ruffalo, Poor Things
Ryan Gosling, Barbie
Austin Butler, The Bikeriders
Matt Damon, Oppenheimer
Robert De Niro, Killers of the Flower Moon
Jesse Plemons, Killers of the Flower Moon
Bill Camp, Sound of Freedom
Best Supporting ActressDa'Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers
America Ferrera, Barbie
Emily Blunt, Oppenheimer
Best Director Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer
Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower Moon
Yorgos Lanthimos, Poor Things
Greta Gerwig, Barbie
Justine Triet, Anatomy of a Fall
Cord Jefferson, American Fiction
Jonathan Glazer, Zone of Interest
Celine Song, Past Lives
David Fincher, The Killer
Jeff Nichols, The Bikeriders
Emerald Fennell, Saltburn
Wes Anderson, Asteroid City
Adapted ScreenplayChristopher Nolan, Oppenheimer
Eric Roth, Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower Moon
Tony McNamara, Poor Things
Cord Jefferson, American Fiction
Celine Song, Past Lives
Andrew Kevin Walker, The Killer
Original ScreenplayDavid Hemingson, The Holdovers
Celine Song, Past Lives
Greta Gerwig, Noah Baumbach, Barbie
Emerald Fennell, Saltburn
Cinematography Poor Things
Oppenheimer
Killers of the Flower Moon
The Killer
Barbie
Asteroid City
Best EditingOppenheimer
The Killer
Killers of the Flower Moon
Poor Things
The Holdovers
The Bikeriders
Production Design Poor Things
Barbie
Oppenheimer
Saltburn
Sound Mixing + EditingOppenheimer
Killers of the Flower Moon
Poor Things
Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Costumes Poor Things
Barbie
Killers of the Flower Moon
The Bikeriders
Visual EffectsOppenheimer
Original ScoreRobbie Robertson, Killers of the Flower Moon
Ludwig Goransson, Oppenheimer
Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, The Killer
Mark Orton, The Holdovers
Original Song
Makeup and Hair Poor Things
Barbie
Oppenheimer
Killers of the Flower Moon
The Bikeriders
Animated Feature The Boy and His Heron
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-verse
Elemental
Documentary Feature
International Feature
Live Action Short
Documentary Short
Animated Short
Interviews
Oscarwatchers Say…
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