‘Cyrano’ Revels in the Art of Love
Director Joe Wright (Atonement) may very well have made the finest film of his career in his romantic musical Cyrano. ...
Tag: BEST PICTURE
Predictions Friday – Best Picture, Best Director, and the Changing Landscape of Film
In a surprise twist, a new poll released indicates that Generation Z does not approve of "cancel culture." If that ...
In the Heights Review
Sometimes a movie is just perfect for the moment of its release. After a year indoors, and with much to ...
Best Picture: The History of the Preferential Ballot
2020 marks the last year the Academy will have a floating number of Best Picture nominees from five to 10. ...
Best Picture – The Oscar Race Gives More Than it Gets
America in 2020 was a dystopian nightmare. It was a blur of darting eyes over masks, empty shelves where toilet ...
Consider Uggie Episode 7: ‘The Artist’ and the origin of ‘Consider Uggie’
“I’ll say one thing. He owes his life to that dog.” Or maybe that dog owes his life to this ...
Predictions Friday – Best Actor and How it Anchors Best Picture
Best Actor is often the strongest link to Best Picture in the Oscar race. The reason ...
The Case for … The Best Best Picture
The Oscar year started at Cannes, when Bong Joon Ho's Parasite won the Palme d'Or. Already renowned for his ability ...
The Gravitational Pull of Best Picture in the Era of the Expanded Ballot
Back when there were five Oscar nominees for Best Picture, it was rare that any of them went home empty-handed. ...
Best Picture — How Many Number One Votes to Secure a Nomination?
The Academy's membership has grown since even a few years ago and is now around 9,000 total. But that number, ...
Best Picture – The Fog Begins to Clear But Still No Frontrunner
The films that are strongest heading into the race now are the same films that started out the season as ...
1917 Closes Out the Year with a Grand Slam
Although there is a review embargo in place until tomorrow, social media erupted with praise yesterday for Sam Mendes' 1917 ...
Great Pretenders: How Many of the Best Films this Year Are about Artifice
The State of the Race: Duplicity in the Best Films of the Year So Far The best films of the ...
Interview: Taika Waititi Talks ‘Jojo Rabbit” And A Simple Message “Can we just be nice and be good to each other?”
THIS INTERVIEW CONTAINS PLOT SPOILERS! Taika Waititi's Jojo Rabbit won the Audience Award last month at the Toronto Film Festival ...
Predictions Friday: Best Picture Narrows, but Predicting the Winner is Hard
We are still in the phase of the Oscar race where hope springs eternal. We've gone through Cannes, Sundance, Telluride, ...
Predictions Friday: Best Picture – of Frontrunners and Underdogs
First, a brief history of why things changed. In 2003, the Academy pushed the date of the Oscars telecast back ...
The State of the Oscar Race – Big Stars, Big Directors, Big Visions
Here are the just-released stills for Scorsese's The Irishman I am imagining a Best Director race where Martin ...
‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’ is Tarantino’s Most Accomplished Film
Quentin Tarantino is an American treasure. With Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, he has finally made a film that ...
The State of the Race: ‘Avengers: Endgame’ and Best Picture
You can't stop what's coming. In America, almost every aspect of our lives has become corporatized. Our choices, under a ...
Taking an Early Look at Best Picture
The Oscar race, like politics, relies on intel from just one year prior. So this year, where the Best Picture ...
