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Hello Darkness My Old Friend — Parasite’s Win Could Mean the End of Feel Good Winners
Now the smoke has cleared, many are still shocked that a movie as good, as twisted, and as dark as...
A Closer Look at 1917 and Last Night’s Surprise
There have been two times in Oscar history where a director and his film surged at the last minute. In...
The Academy Makes History With the First Foreign Language Film to Win Best Picture
While Roma's win for best Director last year was a step towards breaking the pattern, Parasite blew the English language...
Down to the Wire — Is Best Picture Wide Open or Is That Just an Illusion?
The internet is abuzz with the idea of Parasite winning Best Picture, on the heels of last year's Roma not...
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 Can Go With Either Best Director or Best Screenplay, Rarely Both
The Oscars have evolved in different ways since the Academy made three significant changes. The first is that they pushed...
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...
A Bizarre Footnote in the ‘Ford v Ferrari’ Story
The Oscar-nominated and BAFTA-winning Ford v Ferrari holds of the more bizarre side stories I've stumbled across this Oscar season. While...
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...
‘1917’ Producer Brian Oliver on Bringing the Award-Winning Epic to the Big Screen
Sam Mendes' World War I epic 1917 marks producer Brian Oliver's third run at the Best Picture Oscar. Previous nominations...
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,...
The State of the Race: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of the Shortened Season
The 2019-2020 Oscar year has been the most condensed it's ever been. Pushing the Oscars up another month (as they...
[Poll] Writers Guild Preview — What the Last Big Award Might Tell Us, or Not
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This has been a strange Oscar year. All the unusual factors that were in play when it started remain in...
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...