A look at some potential first time Academy Award nominees this year
One of the most enjoyable things about the Oscars each and every single year is that a number of overdue veterans are finally cited with their first Academy Award nominations. These nods are sometimes...
View ArticleA January Oscar Predictions Update
Can you believe that Oscar nominations are less than two weeks away? Yes, on January 15th the first phase of the awards season ends with the Academy Award nominations. Wow. Time flies once the...
View ArticleWriters Guild of America Announces Nominees
Earlier today, the final guild precursor was revealed, as the Writers Guild of America (or WGA) announced their nominees. It was basically the final big card left to fall before it’s solely up to...
View ArticleThe last minute screenplay controversy for “Whiplash”
At literally the 11th hour, something particularly noteworthy has happened to Damien Chazelle’s script for Whiplash. The screenplay, which was just nominated by the Writers Guild of America and is...
View ArticleThe biggest surprises from Oscar nomination morning
A few days ago, I posted a list of the biggest snubs from the Oscar nomination announcement. Now, I want to take a look at the flip side of that, running down some of the biggest surprises from that...
View ArticleWhich are the most competitive Oscar categories this year?
We’re less than three weeks away from the Awards Awards, ladies and gentlemen. Doesn’t time just fly? It seems like only yesterday we were still speculating on so many of the contenders. Now, it’s the...
View ArticleWhich nominee will wind up with the most Oscar wins?
With the Academy Awards creeping up on us and voting currently going on, I wanted to consider for a moment which one of the nominees is primed to do best on Oscar night. Usually, you can narrow it...
View ArticleWill we have a split between Best Picture and Best Director?
As Oscar voting ends later on today, one of the big questions that remains in my mind is…will there be a Best Picture/Best Director split? Aside from trying to figure out whether Birdman or Boyhood...
View ArticlePredictions for the Independent Spirit Awards
Yes, the Academy Awards are on Sunday, but they aren’t the only big award show this weekend. The Independent Spirit Awards are on Saturday, making for a great one-two punch. I’ve always enjoyed the...
View ArticleThe Ten Best Moments from the 87th Academy Awards
As is always the case, there was plenty to complain about once the Oscars came to an end on Sunday night. That’s all well and good, but right now I want to focus on the positive take a quick look at...
View ArticleJ.J. Abrams continues his mystery box storytelling with “10 Cloverfield Lane”
Up until he helped make Star Wars: The Force Awakens one of the biggest hits of all time, J.J. Abrams was perhaps best known for his secretive storytelling ways, both in movies and on television....
View ArticleHollywood Contenders: Looking at potential Best Director contenders
As you fine folks all know from last year as well as my return article late last week, it’s one thing to read early Academy Award predictions at this point in the year in order to see what folks like...
View ArticleRyan Gosling and Emma Stone make us swoon as “La La Land” drops a luminous...
If you saw my predictions late last week, you saw that I’m very high on La La Land, the upcoming modern musical from Damien Chazelle. This high concept romance is his follow up to the Oscar winning...
View ArticleHollywood Contenders – The State of The Race: Looking at potential Best...
Good afternoon folks! It’s that time again. Yes, today I’m continuing on down the line with the last of the big eight categories and finishing off with the other writing one…yes, Best Original...
View ArticleEmma Stone, “Jackie”, and “Nocturnal Animals” highlight the Venice Film...
Over the weekend, the 73rd annual Venice Film Festival handed out their awards for 2016, with a few of the expected major Oscar hopefuls showing up among their winners. They included a few of the...
View Article“La La Land” takes the Audience Award at the Toronto Film Festival
Yesterday, the Toronto International Film Festival gave out its awards for 2016, with Damien Chazelle’s La La Land taking the top prize. That distinction, the People’s Choice prize, also known as the...
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