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. ...
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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 ...
Final Analysis – Box Office, Rotten Tomatoes and Audience Rating
The critics now are different from how they used to be. For whatever reason, the critics often fall into groupthink ...
The Internationals and the Oscars
By Jenny Boulden My jaw dropped a few times on Oscar nomination morning. We always know there will be snubs, ...
Best Picture – When a Different Movie Wins Each of the Major Guilds
When Green Book won the PGA last night, it set into motion something that really might prove true — no ...
The Top Ten Moments from Films in 2018
Each of us has our own personal relationship with movies. I know which ones have stayed with me all of ...
Predictions Friday: You’d Think that People Would Have Had Enough of Silly Love Songs
Love stories are more popular with the Academy than people might think. Although it always seems like there has to ...
The State of the Race: The Big Exhale After Venice, Telluride and Toronto
Film festival season (which is not over yet) blows in fast and furious, then just as quickly, dissipates. We still ...
Interview: Barry Alexander Brown On Trying In BlacKkKlansman To Trump And That Ending
Barry Alexander Brown and Spike Lee go way back, back to the 80s. They've worked together and undertand each other's ...
Damien Chazelle’s First Man Lands In Venice
Damien Chazelle's First Man has landed at Venice to rave reviews. It's hard to believe that there's not been a ...