Timothée Chalamet stars in Marty Supreme, directed by Josh Safdie and co-starring Gwyneth Paltrow. Here is the trailer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZlvC_wLnjU A part written specifically for him and by all accounts, he kills it. So does he win? Maybe? Probably. We'll see.

The DGA: Who sticks out, and who has the narrative? By: Scott Kernen Continuing on with the guild conversations, let’s point towards what is considered to be the second most significant precursor to Best Picture regarding guilds (outside of PGA), that being the Directors Guild. Though more known to be a highly accurate precursor to Best Director (evidenced by their incredible track record in the past 15 years, only getting one Best Picture or Best Director year incorrectly (2019, the year of...

The Perfect Neighbor, which is all the talk online at the moment, won most of the top awards at the Critics Choice Documentary awards. It's rare for a documentary to become so talked about but this one has. A murder case captured mostly on police body cams and edited for dramatic effect. Winners As follows: BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE The Perfect Neighbor (Netflix) BEST DIRECTOR Geeta Gandbhir – The Perfect Neighbor (Netflix) BEST FIRST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE  My Mom Jayne: A Film by Mariska...

One of the very best films of the year is Guillermo Del Toro's Frankenstein. I didn't expect the movie to be such a deeply emotional experience, but it is. That is thanks to the performance of Jacob Elordi as the creature, a dead soldier brought back to life as an experiment by his demonic creator, Dr. Frankenstein (an excellent but hateful Oscar Isaac). Much of the film is Del Toro, given around $120 million by Netflix, but it's all on the screen,...

You can subscribe to this newsletter here. Every so often, a video clip comes across my feed that I can’t ignore. I’m sorry to bring it here, to all of you, but if I put it on Substack or anywhere else, it won’t hit the Google algorithm. If I put it here, it’s harder to ignore. But feel free to move on to the next post if politics bothers you. Dear Molly McNearey, In a recent clip, you explain that you grew...

When Benny Safdie won Best Director in Venice, all of the pundits and critics either shrugged or shook their heads. Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson wasn't gonna be on their wish lists for Best Actor. That was obvious. I took their word for it because I hadn't seen the movie. I did what pundits do - I followed the chatter and buzz online. That turned out to be a mistake because Johnson easily gave one of the best performances of the year. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLdxOtBu4KQ...

No one in the real world would believe how crazy Film Twitter is, or just Gossip Twitter or just Left Twitter. The insanity around Sydney Sweeny's jeans ad was downplayed, hilariously, by the New York Times and the Pod Save America bros. But here we are again! Sydney Sweeney gave an interview where she was asked if she "denounces white supremacy" or some such. She didn't apologize. She didn't capitulate. She said "I made a jeans ad." And she's right. They decided...

We have some exciting news! If you listened to our podcast this week, you might already be clued in—but for those who haven’t… DRUM ROLL, PLEASE!!!!!!! We’ve been busy creating a brand-new feature here at Awards Daily. Very soon, we’ll be launching our very own Oscar Prediction Center! Now, before you say anything, this is NOT meant to compete with Gold Derby or our friends at the Awards Expert app. This is being built for YOU—our much-loved and deeply appreciated readers! We...

Here is Amanda Seyfried's performance of Ann Lee. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zK_nzG36mk&t=5s   "From award-winning writer-director Mona Fastvold (The World to Come, The Brutalist) comes the extraordinary true legend of Ann Lee, founder of the devotional sect known as the Shakers. Academy Award nominee Amanda Seyfried stars as the Shaker's irrepressible leader, who preached gender and social equality and was revered by her followers. The Testament of Ann Lee captures the ecstasy and agony of her quest to build a utopia, featuring more than a...

Sasha Stone, Scott Kernen and Jeremy Jentzen talk the Oscar race. We go through our predictions for PGA, DGA and Best Picture. And for fun, we chose our top 20 favorite Best Actress predictions. Scenes discussed or on podcast:

The 1990s—FINALLY! The decade that brought you ME—and some of my all-time favorite movies. The nineties were one of the greatest decades for winners and a time that stirs up so much passion! Who doesn’t love this decade?! My first movie-going experience was in 1995, with a little-known film called Toy Story. I can still remember it like it was yesterday: the sticky floors, the smell of buttered popcorn. Toy Story was everything to me. I was the same age as Andy,...

You can subscribe to this newsletter here. One Battle After Another is limping along, heading toward a haul of around $200 million worldwide. The critics and industry will spin this as a success, or at least not a failure. Why the movie cost $140 million or so is not relevant to the broader objectiveDoes the movie accurately reflect today’s industry? Yes, it does. Its success reflects an industry that is cut off from the rest of the country but considers international markets...