The State of the Race: Heading into the Thick of It in a Season of Trauma
Oscar season proper has just started. You might have noticed the For Your Consideration ads springing up. As it's been ...
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The Oscars as the World Burns
It has been a long and exhausting year for America and other countries around the world. Nothing seems all that ...
Best Picture – Films that Reflect The Story of America in 2020
If we look close enough and listen hard enough to the films that resonate, maybe we can spot the ones ...
The State of the Race: Is the Race Locked or Wide Open?
I have always believed that the Oscars are mostly fluid, not static. That is, unless they aren't. Some years are ...
The State of the Race: The Oscars are Still a Hot Mess
Okay my friends, there is no getting around it. The Oscars feel like a ship that has sunk and all ...
Cancel the Oscars? How About We Reimagine Them
April 2021. Think about that for a minute. I mean, really think about it. We’re not even through Fall yet. ...
The State of the Race: Best Picture Begins to Take Shape
The new normal of the Best Picture race is that it is both more insular and more democratized. The majority ...
The State of the Race: The Oscars the Way They Used to Be (Except Not)
Yesterday it was announced that the Telluride Film Fest has been canceled. Not CANCELED as in, an internet mob went ...
The State of the Race: Big Changes at the Academy. How Will the Race Answer the Challenge?
Oscar season appears to remain on track, albeit following a long rattling agonizing season that won't really become a real ...
The Oscars in a Time of Pandemic
At the last Oscar ceremony thousands iof us were crammed into the Dolby Theater. Everywhere you turned, every conversation you ...
The State of the Race: What the BAFTAs Tell Us, and What They Don’t
Last night, the BAFTAs showed that they did not want to spread the wealth and instead went all in with ...
The State of the Race: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of the Shortened Season
The 2019-2020 Oscar year has been the most condensed it's ever been. Pushing the Oscars up another month (as they ...
The State of the Race — BAFTA, PGA, DGA All in One Day
This awards season has been relentless. It's sort of like trying to get to shore, but another wave keeps hitting ...
The State of the Race: The Globes Giveth, the Globes Taketh Away
The Golden Globes are the only major publicity event this year that takes place before Oscar ballots are due — ...
The State of the Race — Five Takeaways on the Eve of Voting
We've almost reached the end of a very long road for the Oscars 2020. Voters will have one week, starting ...
The State of the Race – The Globes Drop the Hammer and Now the Race is On
According to our loose, casual read of stats, in light of today's Golden Globes nominations these are the films that ...
The State of the Race – Why the Hollywood Foreign Press Matters So Much This Year
What a difference a date change makes. Pushing up the Oscar ballot deadline, and the Oscars themselves, has thrust the ...
The State of the Race – Shortened Calendar Could Bring Surprising Results
For the first time ever, the major guilds will be announcing at the same time the Oscar ballots are turned ...
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 ...
The State of the Race — Movies with Two Lead Actors and Best Gets Out of Telluride
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is still the film to beat for Best Picture, at least right now, after ...
