The State of the Race

Where a film is placed in festival season can sometimes help determine how it will land in the Oscar race....

The Oscars are now in their 94th year and are attempting to survive in a changing industry and world. Like...

For the second year in a row we are seeing what the Oscar race looks like when voters have time...

So much has changed in the 22 years I've been writing about the Oscars. I see my own influence on...

Today's nominations felt very strange. It wasn't just leaving Lady Gaga off the list, which was surreal. If there was...

Most of us probably believed 2021 and 2022 would be better than 2020. Now that we've begun 2022, it doesn't...

The first year I covered the Oscars, you could feel them coming. They were a big event. They held them...

You have to be someone who is mildly obsessed with episodes of mass hysteria throughout history, like I am, to...

When we think about the Big Oscar movies of the past we think of Titanic, the Godfather, Gone with the...

Somewhere between critics and audiences should sit the Oscars. As critics have become more insular, what drives success in Hollywood...

We are arriving at the point of the Oscar race that I dread every year. Until the nominations come down,...

West Side Story screened yesterday for press and various other sorts. In an ordinary year, this film probably would be...

It should go without saying that the next couple of years are going to be brutal to live through and...

Actors dominate the Oscars. They don't dominate the Golden Globes, the Producers Guild, or the Directors Guild. They only sort...

Listen to this article. In 1968, America was going through a massive upheaval culturally. We were transitioning. Where civil rights,...

It's been surreal watching the past few days of the eruption between Dave Chappelle, Ted Sarandos, a handful of activists,...

After watching Ridley Scott's The Last Duel, and having now seen both No Time to Die and Dune, I think...

As we edge ever so closely to the 100th year of the Oscars, we find ourselves at a crossroads. How...

When you hear someone call something "McCarthyism" what they really mean is the "Red Scare" that inspired McCarthyism. The panic...

I was sent an anonymous DM today that I would like to answer publicly - I have no idea who...