BEST DIRECTOR
Predictions Friday – It Will All Be Over Soon
You learn a lot when you cover the Oscar race for twenty years. You learn things about the way a...
Best Picture — Understanding the Preferential Ballot and the History of Split Votes
In 2017, I was one of the few pundits who took a chance and predicted Moonlight to beat La La...
The Case for … The Best Best Picture
The Oscar year started at Cannes, when Bong Joon Ho's Parasite won the Palme d'Or. Already renowned for his ability...
The State of the Race: What the BAFTAs Tell Us, and What They Don’t
Last night, the BAFTAs showed that they did not want to spread the wealth and instead went all in with...
The Beauty of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
It's the one that got away. There are those movies every year that will go down in film history as...
When Foreign Language Films Almost Won Oscars … and Why They Didn’t
The two foreign language films that I know of in the era I've been covering the Oscar race that came...
Predictions Friday – The BAFTAs Are Coming! The BAFTAs Are Coming! And Always Too Soon!
Big Studios Showed Up This Year, Critics Barely Noticed
The big studios have taken a lot of heat for focusing so much on tentpoles designed to excite shareholders, while...
London Film Critics Circle Names ‘Parasite’ and Bong Joon Ho Best of 2019
The London Film Critics Circle announced their winners. They gave Foreign Language to Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Screenwriter...
‘1917’ Would be the First Epic to Win Best Picture in 16 Years
The cliché about Oscar voters is that they like sweeping epics (e.g., Out of Africa, Forrest Gump, Schindler's List, Braveheart,...
A Love Letter to Quentin Tarantino and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Back in 1993 I was attending UCLA. It took me a while to get through college. I had a hard...
How to Defeat Evil? With Love and Laughter, the Case for Jojo Rabbit
Evil holds a strange and terrible appeal to young Jojo (Roman Griffin Davis) in Taika Waititi’s brilliant satire Jojo Rabbit....
Best Picture — What the Stats Can Tell Us, and What They Can’t
It came as no surprise to our AwardsDaily readers who accurately predicted Sam Mendes to win the DGA in our...
Cinema as Pure Art: The Case for 1917
If you put a hundred humans on an island to fight for survival or try to eke out a little...
Bong Joon Ho Accepts Director Award from Santa Barbara Film Fest
Last night, Scott Feinberg interviewed Bong Joon Ho in Santa Barbara as he accepted the award for Outstanding Director. A...
[Poll] DGA Preview Part Two — A Deeper Dive Into the Stats
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The DGA is indeed a cliffhanger, or at least it seems like it will be. I can't even predict over...
DGA Preview: Cinematic Masters Face Off This Weekend
The five directors who are nominated for the DGA have reminded me what great cinema is all about. If the...
Betting Odds Reflect Chaos of This Year’s Oscar Race
If you're interested in betting on this year's Oscar race, it is going to be a wild ride, I can...
Best Picture — Over to You, DGA
As of today, we still don't have a definitive precursor to nail down Best Director or Best Picture. In terms...
Oscar Primer — Why No Women Were Nominated for Best Director
I didn't think I'd ever be in the position of defending the Academy, but I find myself in that exact...