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 ...
Tag: The State of the Race
The State of the Race — Radical Date Change, Who Benefits, How It Shifts the Oscar Race
The Academy decided to push up the Oscars next year to February 9, a few weeks before its previous date ...
The State of the Race: The Aftermath, the Hive Mind and the Real World
Heading into the Dolby last night, I had no idea what to expect. It felt like the worst Oscar year ...
The State of the Race — Competing Agendas Throw Oscar Race Out of Whack
For most of the time I've been covering the Oscars (going on 20 years now) and throughout their 90 year ...
The State of the Race: The Academy Tries to Save Its Telecast, Fans Try to Save the Oscars
Plan A - "Add a popular film category," said the Academy. "That might help bring back those who have long ...
The State of the Race: Will the Most Powerful Guild Please Stand Up?
Yesterday, Roma won Best Film and Best Director at the BAFTAs, setting into motion that old seductive idea that the ...
The State of the Race: New Hollywood, Old Hollywood, and the Future of the Best Picture Race
Three Households Three households, both alike in dignity, (In fair Hollywood, where we lay our scene), From ancient studio system ...
The State of the Race — The Oscars in the Time of Trump
There is no question that the Trump presidency has had a major impact on the Oscar race. The Obama presidency ...
The State of the Race: A Superhero, a Netflix Revolution, and Spike Lee? Could Tuesday’s Nominations Bring Big Change to the Oscar Race?
No (live-action) superhero movie has ever been nominated in the major categories — with two exceptions: a screenplay nomination for ...
The State of the Race — Oscar Ballots Due in Four Days Amid Shitstorms
Every year it's the same story. Right around the time Oscar voting begins, controversy hits. Sometimes it's manageable. In the ...
The State of the Race — What the Globes Gave and What They Took Away
By now, we have a pretty good idea of how the acting races are going. The frontrunner for Best Supporting ...
The State of the Race — Can the Golden Globes on Sunday Clarify the Murky Oscar Race?
This weekend, the Golden Globes will be the first big try-outs for how the Oscar race might go. As the ...
The State of the Oscar Race: “Movies Now More Than Ever”
The critics have spoken. Roma has far and away been acclaimed the best film in 2018. Many in the Oscar ...
Of Remakes, Sequels, Franchises – the Oscars at a Crossroads
Once the news that Mary Poppins Returns was actually good, it didn't take long for many of the Oscarati to ...
The State of the Race — November Is Almost Over, Still No Clear Frontrunner for Best Picture
"What's going to win Best Picture," I asked The Wrap's Steve Pond the other night at the AFI Fest. He ...
The State of the Race: When Box Office Matters, And When It Doesn’t
We're in the phase of the Oscar race where pundits are being blamed for the way the voters always vote. ...
The State of the Oscar Race: Welcome to the End of the World
We find ourselves entering the Best Picture race in a dark time when the strength of liberalism has been cut ...
The State of the Race: Oscar Season Arrives at Last Amid Peak Anxiety, Toronto, and the Venice-Telluride One-Two Punch
“Keep an eye on that recessive male,” writes Deadline’s Michael Cieply at Deadline, looking for a broad plotline that might ...
Best Picture – An Early Look at the Landscape
The Oscar race will be a strange one this year. In some respects it will be business as usual, as ...
Superhero Overlords, Netflix Anxiety, Angry Academy Members, Trigger Happy Virtue Signaling on Twitter – Welcome to Oscarwatch 2019
The reason it's so easy to point a finger on Twitter and send an angry swarm out to destroy one ...
HBO Drops Two Major Trailers at SDCC
HBO unveil two high profile trailers at San Diego Comic Con today. First up, Damon Lindelof's sequel to Watchmen, the famed Alan...
Hans Zimmer Returns To Scoring The Lion King 25 Years Later
I am capping off my Lion King Press Day by sitting in a room with Hans Zimmer. We've spoken on...
John Kani Talks The Lion King – “It was Africa, and that was beautiful.”
John Kani's presence is magnetic. As I sit across from him in a suite at the Montage Hotel, we're talking...
First Trailer for ‘Cats’ Is Out of the Bag
On a day when prominent trailers came out for "Ad Astra," "Top Gun: Maverick," and "IT: Chapter 2," dominating discussion...
Watch Brad Pitt Head To Space In New ‘Ad Astra’ Trailer
20th Century Fox has released a brand new trailer and poster for Ad Astra. Brad Pitt plays Roy McBride as...
Interview: Awkwafina Talks The Farewell and Her Very Personal Journey
She introduces herself as "Nora" but to most, she is Awkwafina, rapper and actress who had two breakout roles last...
Kore-eda’s The Truth to Open 76th Venice Film Festival
Palme d’Or winner and Oscar nominee Kore-eda Hirokazu’s latest drama starring Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Binoche and Ethan Hawke will open...
Interview: Nick Broomfield’s Very Personal Connection to Marianne and Leonard: Words of Love
Nick Broomfield's Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love is more than just a look at the love story between singer...
A Deeper Look at the 2019 Emmy Nominations
After months of anticipation, the 2019 Emmy Nominations are finally here and they are surprisingly... GREAT. For the first time,...
Cats: An Inside Look
Ahead of the trailer release and our first real look at the 'digital fur technology,' Universal has released an inside...