Great Leaders, Politics and Hollywood
The shades of US presidents, real and imagined, have always weaved in and out of Hollywood films. This year, Steven ...
Tag: Politics
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Roger Ebert: "The greatest music video ever made"
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Congratulations, Mr. President
Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize today. Whatever else this honor represents, I see it as symbolic repudiation of ...
End of the Yellow Brick Road
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Obama and the Changing Tide
Most of the time this site has been running our government was under Republican rule. It started around 1999, just ...
Ebert Offers Up Wit and Insight Among the Bland
You know, I'm so tired of this election year already. I'm so sick of the horrid pounding Hillary has been ...
It Could Never Happen Here
From the box office to the ballot box; film directors, or entertainers, here in the US really couldn't stage such ...
Oscar Nomination Predictions
Best Picture
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1.
100%One Battle after Another (Warner Bros.)
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2.
75%Sinners (Warner Bros.)
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3.
75%Hamnet (Focus Features)
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4.
75%Marty Supreme (A24)
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5.
75%Sentimental Value (Neon)
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6.
75%Frankenstein (Netflix)
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7.
75%Bugonia (Focus Features)
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8.
75%Train Dreams (Netflix)
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9.
75%The Secret Agent (Neon)
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10.
75%F1 (Apple)
Best Director
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1.
100%One Battle after Another, Paul Thomas Anderson
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2.
75%Sinners, Ryan Coogler
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3.
75%Hamnet, Chloé Zhao
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4.
75%Marty Supreme, Josh Safdie
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5.
75%Sentimental Value, Joachim Trier
Best Actor
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1.
100%Timothée Chalamet in Marty Supreme
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2.
75%Leonardo DiCaprio in One Battle after Another
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3.
75%Michael B. Jordan in Sinners
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4.
75%Ethan Hawke in Blue Moon
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5.
75%Wagner Moura in The Secret Agent
Best Actress
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1.
100%Jessie Buckley in Hamnet
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2.
75%Rose Byrne in If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
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3.
75%Renate Reinsve in Sentimental Value
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4.
75%Kate Hudson in Song Sung Blue
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5.
75%Emma Stone in Bugonia
Best Supporting Actor
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1.
100%Stellan Skarsgård in Sentimental Value
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2.
75%Benicio Del Toro in One Battle after Another
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3.
75%Delroy Lindo in Sinners
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4.
75%Jacob Elordi in Frankenstein
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5.
75%Sean Penn in One Battle after Another
Best Supporting Actress
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1.
100%Teyana Taylor in One Battle after Another
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2.
75%Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas in Sentimental Value
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3.
75%Wunmi Mosaku in Sinners
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4.
75%Amy Madigan in Weapons
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5.
75%Elle Fanning in Sentimental Value
Nextgen Oscarwatcher: The Race is Over, Unless It’s Not
Best Picture What began as a competitive field with five films landing both SAG Ensemble and DGA nods has narrowed...
