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What makes a great Oscar acceptance speech?

February 9, 2020 by George Nash

On the eve of the 92nd Academy Awards begins, a mixture of trepidation and excitement is rife among avid Oscar-watchers over what is quite possibly the ceremony’s most consistent source of entertainment: the acceptance speeches. Here, George Nash muses over what makes a great one… The shocks. The snubs. The nauseating self-importance. With so much […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Awards Season, George Nash, Movies Tagged With: Gwyneth Paltrow, Joe Pesci, Oscars, The Irishman, The Rise of Skywalker, Vice

The Farewell and Uncut Gems among winners of the 2020 Film Independent Spirit Awards

February 9, 2020 by Gary Collinson

The winners of the 2020 Film Independent Spirit Awards were announced last night, with Lulu Wang’s The Farewell taking home the prize for Best Feature, and Adam Sandler shaking off his Oscar snub to take the award for Best Actor for Uncut Gems. Along with Best Actor, Uncut Gems was also honoured with Best Director […]

Filed Under: Awards Season, Gary Collinson, Movies, News Tagged With: Film Independent Spirit Awards, spirit awards

Cats, A Madea Family Funeral and Rambo: Last Blood nominations for the 40th Golden Raspberry Awards

February 8, 2020 by Gary Collinson

As Hollywood prepares to celebrate the best in cinematic achievement for 2019 at tomorrow’s Academy Awards, the Golden Raspberry Award Foundation has put the spotlight on the very worst with the nominations for the 40th annual Razzie Awards. Leading the unwanted nominations with eight nods apiece are Cats, Rambo: Last Blood and A Madea Family […]

Filed Under: Awards Season, Gary Collinson, Movies, News Tagged With: Golden Raspberry Awards, Razzie Awards

1917 leads the winners of BAFTA’s 2020 British Academy Film Awards

February 2, 2020 by Gary Collinson

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Hollywood descended upon London this evening as BAFTA hosted the 2020 EE British Academy Film Awards, with Sam Mendes’ World War I epic 1917 enjoying a fantastic night with seven awards in total including Best Film. Along with the top honour, 1917 was also awarded Outstanding British Film, Director (Mendes), Cinematography (Roger Deakins), Production Design, […]

Filed Under: Awards Season, Gary Collinson, Movies, News Tagged With: BAFTA, BAFTAs, British Academy Film Awards

Oscars: What Should Have Won – The Insider Over American Beauty for Best Picture of 1999

February 1, 2020 by Graeme Robertson

Graeme Robertson on why The Insider should have won over American Beauty at the Academy Awards…  The line up for the Oscars celebrating the best of 1999 could arguably be seen as something of a slow year in terms of cinematic brilliance, at least in my opinion. While none of the films nominated is particularly […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Awards Season, Graeme Robertson, Movies Tagged With: Academy Awards, American Beauty, Oscars, The Insider

Parasite named Film of the Year at the 2020 London Critics’ Circle Film Awards

January 31, 2020 by Gary Collinson

The winners of the 2020 London Critics’ Circle Film Awards were announced last night, with Boon Joon Ho’s dark comedy Parasite taking home the top honour, Film of the Year, along with Director the Year. Also collecting two awards apiece were The Souvenir (British/Irish Film of the Year and Young British/Irish Performer of the Year […]

Filed Under: Awards Season, Gary Collinson, Movies, News Tagged With: London Critics' Circle Film Awards

Oscars: What Should Have Won – L.A. Confidential Over Titanic for Best Picture

January 31, 2020 by Graeme Robertson

Graeme Robertson on why L.A. Confidential should have won over Titanic at the Academy Awards… The Oscars celebrating the best of 1997 was a ceremony dominated by one film, James Cameron’s romantic disaster epic Titanic – a film that devoured the box office and won itself an absurd 11 Oscars including Best Picture, a feat previously […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Awards Season, Graeme Robertson, Movies Tagged With: Academy Awards, L.A. Confidential, Oscars, Titanic

Sam Mendes receives the 2020 DGA Award for 1917

January 26, 2020 by Gary Collinson

Sam Mendes looks to have put himself in pole position for the Oscar for Best Director, with the filmmaker taking home the top prize at the 2020 Directors Guild of America Awards for his World War One epic 1917. The DGA Awards are seen as a strong indicator for the Academy Awards, with the DGA […]

Filed Under: Awards Season, Gary Collinson, Movies, News, Television Tagged With: DGA Awards, directors guild of america

Marvel’s Black Panther among the nominees at the 2019 PGA Awards

January 5, 2019 by Gary Collinson

Marvel Studios’ Black Panther Oscar ambitions have just received a major boost with the Producer’s Guild of America announcing that the superhero blockbuster will contest the prestigious Darryl F. Zanuck Award at the 2019 PGA Awards. The award is seen as the best indicator of the Best Picture nominees at the Academy Awards, and this […]

Filed Under: Awards Season, Gary Collinson, Movies, News, Television Tagged With: PGA Awards, producer's guild of america

Oscars 2018: Predicting the nominations in the main categories

January 22, 2018 by Tom Beasley

Tom Beasley takes a shot at predicting the final shortlists for the Academy Awards… The Academy will release their shortlists for the Oscars tomorrow, lighting the touchpaper on the final furlong of the awards season race. These nominations are the holy grail of the awards season calendar and being chosen will ensure the great and […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Awards Season, Movies, Tom Beasley Tagged With: Allison Janney, Darkest Hour, Frances McDormand, Gary Oldman, Get Out, greta gerwig, Jordan Peele, Lady Bird, Oscars, Oscars 2018, sam rockwell, The Disaster Artist, The Shape of Water, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri

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