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Cannes Dispatch – Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
Quentin Tarantino’s 9th feature premiered today in competition amid intense anticipation. Not only was the line to get into...
Early Raves out of Cannes for Quentin’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
By all accounts, at least from the scant few reviews that have trickled in, Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time...
The State of the Race — Radical Date Change, Who Benefits, How It Shifts the Oscar Race
The Academy decided to push up the Oscars next year to February 9, a few weeks before its previous date...
Jim Jarmusch’s The Dead Don’t Die Gets a Trailer
Yes, Iggy Pop and Tom Waits are in this thing, along with Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Tilda Swinton, Chloë Sevigny,...
Spielberg vs. Netflix and the Oscar Race: A Debate Rages Onward
The times are changing and they're changing fast. Steven Spielberg is apparently leading a charge of Academy members to block...
What People Keep Getting Wrong About Green Book: It Was Not a “Surprise” Winner
An anonymous ballot (really, after all that's been said, why be anonymous? Grow a pair, pal) reveals how one member...
The Preferential Ballot Explained — or How Green Book Beat Roma
Marshall Flores and I have been running - what he calls - sims (simulations) for the preferential ballot on Facebook....
Final No Guts, No Glory for Oscars 2019
You've been with us through the boring years, through the predictable years, through good times and bad. You've been here...
Predictions Friday – Final Oscar Predictions aka the Year that Broke the Oscar Pundits
No one really seems to know if this year will indeed be as unpredictable as it seems right now. If...
Gold Derby Goes All In for Roma to Win Best Pic — But What Will Be the Biggest Surprises?
All of the major pundits at Gold Derby are 100% in for Roma. That is quite a stronghold. Either they...
Frontrunners and the Challengers as We Enter the Final Stretch of Oscar Week
For some people, this Oscar season has been "fun and exciting." For others, it's been like having the stomach flu....
The State of the Race — Competing Agendas Throw Oscar Race Out of Whack
For most of the time I've been covering the Oscars (going on 20 years now) and throughout their 90 year...
Final Analysis – Box Office, Rotten Tomatoes and Audience Rating
The critics now are different from how they used to be. For whatever reason, the critics often fall into groupthink...
Predictions Friday — Last Looks Before Tuesday’s Ballot Deadline
This grim and fretful Oscar season, which should be much more of a celebration than the fear and panic in...
Writers Guild Preview + Contest — Why the WGA Might Decide the Best Picture Race … Or Not
In the era of the expanded ballot, screenplay honors have been tied more closely to Best Picture than even a...
A Last Bid for A Star Is Born
At last week’s Santa Barbara Film Festival Paul Schrader praised Lady Gaga in A Star Is Born calling her “a...
All This and the Oscars Too – Better Late Than Never
Our latest podcast was recorded before the news today, oh boy, about the categories. We talk BAFTA wins and of...
The State of the Race: The Academy Tries to Save Its Telecast, Fans Try to Save the Oscars
Plan A - "Add a popular film category," said the Academy. "That might help bring back those who have long...
The State of the Race: Will the Most Powerful Guild Please Stand Up?
Yesterday, Roma won Best Film and Best Director at the BAFTAs, setting into motion that old seductive idea that the...
Predictions Friday: Final Oscar Voting Ends in One Week
This is the most fertile time for final Oscar voting, for surges and for smears. It's like how Trump talked...
A Deadly Virus Lands On American Soil In National Geographic’s ‘The Hot Zone’
Jazz Tangcay Reviews The Hot Zone. The thrilling new drama series about how Ebola almost caused a catastrophe on American...
Will ‘Family,’ ‘Jeffersons’ Make a 2019 Emmy Return?
In what used to be referred to more commonly as "sweeps month," ABC and Sony Pictures TV released Live in Front...
Ava DuVernay’s When They See Us Is an Unmissable Knockout
“It’s a start, a work of art To revolutionize make a change nothing's strange People, people we are the same...
Cannes Dispatch – Will Win / Should Win
All 21 films in competition at the 72nd Cannes Film Festival have now screened, and yours truly made sure to...
Review: Guy Ritchie’s Aladdin Shows Us A Whole New World
I didn't realize just how deep my love for Disney's 1992 Aladdin ran. When the film first came out, I...
The Hive Mind Sharpens its Knives for Tarantino
You knew this was coming, right? If you have a pile of dry brush and a whole bunch of people...
Cannes Dispatch – Parasite
You don’t necessarily expect to see Korean director Bong Joon-ho’s name included among cinematic celestials like Terrence Malick, Pedro Almodóvar,...
Cannes Dispatch – Ira Sachs Talks Frankie, Isabelle Huppert and Queer Cinema
Celebrated filmmaker Ira Sachs is a 6-time Spirit Awards nominee known for such critically acclaimed films as KEEP THE LIGHTS...
With the Release of His Fourth Film, Pittsburgh Doctor/Filmmaker Ravi Godse Proves Laughter is the Best Medicine
Awards Daily's Megan McLachlan chats with the Pittsburgh doctor/filmmaker Ravi Godse, whose work attracts the likes of Richard Kind, Steve...
Five Questions With… ‘Dannemora’ Creators Brett Johnson and Michael Tolkin
Awards Daily talks to Escape at Dannemora creators and writers Brett Johnson and Michael Tolkin about their vision for the brilliant Showtime...