Let’s Talk Cinema: Why We Need the Oscars
Do you remember the first time you watched the Academy Awards? Do you remember who gave the first speech you ...
Tag: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Let’s Talk Cinema: The 2000s – Are You Not Entertained?
One of my many faults, much to my wife’s displeasure, is that I’m a night owl. For over a decade ...
The Criterion Showcase for Benjamin Button
What a long strange trip it's been. For Fincher fans who began buzzing about The Curious Case of Benjamin Button ...
The Dazzling VFX of Benjamin Button
There was an interesting piece on the LA Times blog about the visual effects of Benjamin Button called the "Wizards ...
The State of the Race – The Big Pull
The Reader is like the English Patient. Old age makeup, great sex scenes, World War II, Harvey Weinstein, redemption, suffering. ...
Benjamin Button’s 13 nominations
Unless I'm missing a title or two, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button today entered the Big Book of Oscar ...
Funny but Simple-Minded
This was the post that featured the video comparing Button to Gump - it was funny in a kind of ...
Yet another Benjamin Button poster
(click for full view) Still grappling with a way to convey the chronological rift between the central characters in The ...
2008’s Top Ten Best Written Female Characters
1. One shines above the rest from this year's offerings and she isn't even human. 2008's badass Eve spends her ...
Living in Cinema’s Button Rave
Our pal Craig Kennedy has, by all accounts, written his best review to date (arguably) after having seen Benjamin Button, ...
Oscar Nomination Predictions
Best Picture
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1.
100%One Battle after Another (Warner Bros.)
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2.
66.7%Sinners (Warner Bros.)
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3.
66.7%Hamnet (Focus Features)
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4.
66.7%Marty Supreme (A24)
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5.
66.7%Sentimental Value (Neon)
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6.
66.7%Frankenstein (Netflix)
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7.
66.7%Bugonia (Focus Features)
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8.
66.7%The Secret Agent (Neon)
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9.
66.7%Train Dreams (Netflix)
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10.
66.7%F1 (Apple)
Best Director
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1.
100%One Battle after Another, Paul Thomas Anderson
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2.
66.7%Sinners, Ryan Coogler
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3.
66.7%Marty Supreme, Josh Safdie
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4.
66.7%Hamnet, Chloé Zhao
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5.
66.7%Sentimental Value, Joachim Trier
Best Actor
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1.
100%Timothée Chalamet in Marty Supreme
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2.
66.7%Leonardo DiCaprio in One Battle after Another
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3.
66.7%Michael B. Jordan in Sinners
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4.
66.7%Ethan Hawke in Blue Moon
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5.
66.7%Wagner Moura in The Secret Agent
Best Actress
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1.
100%Jessie Buckley in Hamnet
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2.
66.7%Rose Byrne in If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
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3.
66.7%Kate Hudson in Song Sung Blue
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4.
66.7%Renate Reinsve in Sentimental Value
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5.
66.7%Emma Stone in Bugonia
Best Supporting Actor
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1.
100%Stellan Skarsgård in Sentimental Value
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2.
66.7%Benicio Del Toro in One Battle after Another
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3.
66.7%Jacob Elordi in Frankenstein
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4.
66.7%Delroy Lindo in Sinners
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5.
66.7%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.
66.7%Wunmi Mosaku in Sinners
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3.
66.7%Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas in Sentimental Value
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4.
66.7%Amy Madigan in Weapons
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5.
66.7%Elle Fanning in Sentimental Value
2026 Oscar Predictions: The Zealots Come For Timothee and Marty Supreme
Johnny Chaz has put together this beautiful montage on Best Picture and for a little while we can all just...
