According to our loose, casual read of stats, in light of today's Golden Globes nominations these are the films that...
Read moreWhat a difference a date change makes. Pushing up the Oscar ballot deadline, and the Oscars themselves, has thrust the...
Read moreEvery year around Oscar time, my old friend David Carr (rest in peace) used to call me up and we'd...
Read moreYesterday, Roma won Best Film and Best Director at the BAFTAs, setting into motion that old seductive idea that the...
Read moreBlack Panther winning the SAG Ensemble award made sense. A+ Cinemascore, groundbreaking, history-making superhero movie with a large cast of...
Read moreNo (live-action) superhero movie has ever been nominated in the major categories — with two exceptions: a screenplay nomination for...
Read moreEvery year it's the same story. Right around the time Oscar voting begins, controversy hits. Sometimes it's manageable. In the...
Read moreBy now, we have a pretty good idea of how the acting races are going. The frontrunner for Best Supporting...
Read moreThe critics have spoken. Roma has far and away been acclaimed the best film in 2018. Many in the Oscar...
Read moreOnce the news that Mary Poppins Returns was actually good, it didn't take long for many of the Oscarati to...
Read more"What's going to win Best Picture," I asked The Wrap's Steve Pond the other night at the AFI Fest. He...
Read moreWe're in the phase of the Oscar race where pundits are being blamed for the way the voters always vote....
Read moreAs Trump's rhetoric grows louder, as white supremacists rise up to commit acts of unspeakable violence, as America finds itself...
Read moreWe find ourselves entering the Best Picture race in a dark time when the strength of liberalism has been cut...
Read more“Keep an eye on that recessive male,” writes Deadline’s Michael Cieply at Deadline, looking for a broad plotline that might...
Read moreThe reason it's so easy to point a finger on Twitter and send an angry swarm out to destroy one...
Read moreIt has been an odd year for finding Best Picture because, as I once wrote long ago, we don't quite...
Read moreThis morning’s nominations showed the strength of the BAFTA overlap with the Academy membership. They pushed through Darkest Hour and...
Read moreIn one version of our American story, we are still a united people. We're not really bad, any of us....
Read moreWe always knew this was going to be a strange awards year with unpredictable bumps here and there. How the...
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