Oscar Watch
Oscar Season Countdown Part II – The Best Actress Race Determined by State of Industry
Nathaniel Rogers has sketched an outline for what the Best Actress race might look like. He has smartly divided up...
Best Actor Watch: Snowden with Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Academy Award®-winning director Oliver Stone, who brought Platoon, Born on the Fourth of July, Wall Street and JFK to the...
Best Picture Watch: Passengers Aims for the Sweet Spot
The news about Passengers coming out of CinemaCon made it sound like a comedy, maybe not aimed squarely at the...
Best Actress Watch: Emily Blunt stars as the Girl on the Train
The new trailer for Girl on a Train is great, meeting all expectations for fans of the novel, at least...
Best Picture Watch: Birth of a Nation Trailer
Martin Scorsese’s Silence To Be Released By End of 2016
Oscars 2016: Re-Evaluating the Preferential Ballot, Does it Work?
Right now the establishment wing of the GOP is wishing their party employed a preferential ballot like the Academy does...
OscarWatch: Brooklyn Gets a November Release Date
The first major Oscar contender to emerge this year is probably Brooklyn, at least so far. Well, it will certainly...
Vanity Fair Snaps Back to Norm with Latest Cover
Each year, as other representations of our melting pot try to rise in the ranks of Hollywood, there is the...
OscarWatch: An Early Look at the Best Actress Race
As we head into another Oscar season you'll see an array of representations of male characters of all ages and...
Kristen Stewart Talks ‘Sils Maria’ Amid Great Reviews
Kristen Stewart told the Wall Street Journal, “The reason this movie was made was not to make a statement about...
Scarlett Johansson Unleashes Lucy July 25
Praise for Melanie Laurent’s Film Respire
Melanie Laurent has brought her film Respire here to Cannes. The Playlist's Jessica Kiang calls this one of her most...
Angelina Jolie Talks Filmmaking and Future Project with Brad Pitt
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At Cannes Stories About Women Dominate, even if Female Filmmakers are Rare
In case you've been wondering why it's so difficult to get movies about women made you don't have to look...
Finding Oscar Contenders in Cannes
While Oscar season is a long way off, and the long march to the end of the year often discards...
Foxcatcher – Bennett Miller’s Third Great Film about the American Dream
“That's why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.” ― George Carlin...
Mike Leigh’s Mr. Turner Emerges as First Oscar Contender of 2014
While it's true that Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel is also an early contender for film awards, Mike Leigh's...
Mark Harris and Tom O’Neil on the Oscar Race
Two of my favorite people in the whole world shoot the shit about Oscar season. Tom O'Neil runs Gold Derby...
Oscarwatch 2013 – Why the Strong Male Lead Drives Best Picture Now
This year’s Oscar race is not different from most in the last twenty years. Best Picture is driven by two...