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The State of the Race: The Oscars the Way They Used to Be (Except Not)
Yesterday it was announced that the Telluride Film Fest has been canceled. Not CANCELED as in, an internet mob went...
Rod Lurie’s Film Outpost Launches During Global Pandemic
There is no easy way to confront what is happening right now. But it's a good dry run for how...
The State of the Race: Big Changes at the Academy. How Will the Race Answer the Challenge?
Oscar season appears to remain on track, albeit following a long rattling agonizing season that won't really become a real...
Hamilton Gets a Trailer
The eagerly awaited musical masterpiece Hamilton to stream on Disney Plus July 3rd. Hamilton felt like the best of Obama's...
Mass Hysteria, Twitter and the Fate of West Side Story
It won't be easy for West Side Story to withstand the blow it was dealt when anonymous accusations surfaced this...
The Academy Shifts the Oscar Ceremony to April 25, 2021 – New Timeline due to COVID
The Academy Awards have been moved to April 25, 2021, with a whole new eligibility timeline as follows: Academy key...
Hollywood and the Oscars Should Brace for Second Wave of Accusations
In recent days, the firings, retractions, suspensions and resignations at top publications over various accusations that are deemed offensive, should...
The Academy Announces Big News – Best Picture Goes Back to Ten and Why That’s a Good Thing
The Academy, under the new Board of Governors, announced what they hope will be sweeping changes to address problems of...
Academy Drops New Rules in Light of COVID-19, Plus Sound Categories are Combined
The Academy has updated and dropped its new rules, including the new very big one that they're combining Mixing and...
Vanity Fair Posts First Look at Spielberg’s ‘West Side Story’
Vanity Fair posted today a first look at Steven Spielberg's take on the classic musical West Side Story. Dropping December, the film...
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...