It's shocking to me that Mass is Fran Kranz's directorial debut. There is a reason that we have been talking...
Read moreAaron Sorkin received three Academy Award nominations for screenwriting, winning for his brilliant screenplay for David Fincher's The Social Network....
Read moreThose following the film industry may know Mike Jones from his tenures at IndieWire, Variety, and other publications. But a...
Read moreWriter Krysty Wilson-Cairns and director Sam Mendes initially bonded over a handful of projects that ultimately never made it to...
Read moreThe trend lately has been for directors at the top of the Oscar race to either write or co-write their...
Read moreIt's been said that you can't make a good movie out of a bad screenplay. There are plenty of bad...
Read moreWhen A Quiet Place was released earlier this year, it was an immediate critical and popular hit, earning $188 million...
Read moreFilms recognized at the Oscars have been traditionally a collaborative effort. The more collaborative, the more well liked. You can...
Read moreWith the weight of Dunkirk‘s award season run seemingly on the shoulders of Christopher Nolan's Best Director chances, I wanted to bring forth...
Read moreWhen Liz Hannah wrote the script for The Post, it wasn't expected to sell right away. She was hoping to...
Read moreGreta Gerwig’s Lady Bird looks on the surface to be a coming-of-age story about a difficult, perhaps somewhat unlikable teenage...
Read moreOur good friend Robin Write at WriteOutofLA.com makes a case for The Lobster winning the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay....
Read moreThe Oscar-nominated screenwriters from La La Land, Hidden Figures, Moonlight, 20th Century Women, Arrival, Lion and Hell or High Water...
Read moreI don't know what's going to happen when the Oscars are announced in terms of a La La Land sweep....
Read moreThe nominees for the USC Scripter match exactly the Oscar nominees for adapted screenplay. But BAFTA and the Writers Guild...
Read moreYesterday's story focused on how original screenplays, and not adapted, could feature into the Best Picture race. But today, I'd...
Read moreIt should be noted that there are a few pundits who have different films at number one than La La...
Read moreThe Boston Globe's Spotlight team are the investigative journalists who uncovered the stunning story of widespread sexual abuse by members...
Read moreHere we go. Chow down on this lavish Simulated Ballot buffet. Next up: Best Actors, Actresses, Supporting Actors and even...
Read moreby Robin Write Ex Machina is a movie I saw very early on in the year, and we are talking...
Read moreThis is Swift's 2nd POTY Time cover; she was one of 2017's "The Silence Breakers",6 women who told pretty despicable…
so were Hitler and Donald Trump... ;-) Talk about meaningless prizes only to call attention to themselves and destined to…
just dropping this here... "Society of the Snow" rising to 95% RT and 70 MC (better than actually expected for…
I'm sad. It's a big 0 for Many in the awards race thus far (at least in important categories). Oh…
It was so hard to make predictions because I have such huge gaps in my knowledge. I haven't seen many…