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Academy Re-Awards: Fixing the Best Picture Oscar Winners of the 1980s

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Coinciding with the Oscars, we take a trip back to the 1980s to fix the Best Picture winners… The Oscars are upon us. Year after year, controversy and debate rages, over the nominations, the oversights and the eventual winners. Over the years there have been plenty of safe and so-so choices for Best Picture at […]

Wednesday and Everything Everywhere All At Once win big at the Critics Choice Super Awards

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The Critics Choice Association (CCA) announced today the winners of the 3rd Annual Critics Choice Super Awards, honoring the most popular, fan-obsessed genres across both movies and television, including Superhero, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Horror, and Action. In a year filled with some of the best genre entertainment, the Critics Choice Super Awards had a challenging task […]

2023’s Best Picture Nominees, Ranked By Most Likely to Win

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Olly Dyche looks at the Best Picture nominees for this year’s Academy Awards and their prospects for winning the Oscar… 2022 saw a splattering of phenomenal movies, and the run up to the 95th Academy Awards was beyond exciting. With many unforgettable performances and fantastic scores (among many other highly acclaimed categories), 2023’s Oscar celebration […]

Everything Everywhere All At Once sweeps big at 2023 Oscars

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In one of the biggest sweeps in quite some time, A24 just had their Oscars’ darling moment. Everything Everywhere All At Once, by Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert, won seven awards after receiving 11 total nominations. Not only did the film take home Best Directing and Best Original Screenplay, but it landed every acting award […]

Razzies 2023: Blonde and Morbius lead winners of 43rd Golden Raspberry Awards

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As traditional on the eve of the Oscars, the Golden Raspberry Award Foundation announced the recipients of the 2023 Razzie Awards last night, as the Ada de Armas-led Marilyn Monroe film Blonde fought off stiff competition from Pinocchio, Good Mourning, The King’s Daughter and Morbius to claim the ‘Worst Picture’ award. This year’s Worst Actress […]

Everything Everywhere All at Once cleans up at the 2023 Film Independent Spirit Awards

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The BAFTAs may not have shown much love to Everything Everywhere All at Once, but that wasn’t the case at last night’s Film Independent Spirit Awards where the film cleaned up with seven wins in total, seemingly cementing its place as front-runner heading into the Academy Awards. The A24-released EEAOA took home the top prize, […]

All Quiet on the Western Front leads winners of the 2023 EE BAFTA Film Awards

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Having went into the night leading the field with fourteen nominations in total, Netflix’s All Quiet on the Western Front was the big winner at the 2023 EE BAFTA Film Awards with the acclaimed German-language adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque’s World War I novel picking up seven honours in Best Film, Director (Edward Berger), Film […]

Steven Spielberg says The Dark Knight should have received a Best Picture nomination

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If we remembered the 81st Academy Awards in 2009, we’d recall the push to see The Dark Knight take home some major awards. While the film was nominated for various awards, it was left out of the conversation for Best Picture come Oscar night. One of the Oscar’s most beloved filmmakers, Steven Spielberg, is saying […]

For the Sake of Saving the Oscars, One of These Must Win Best Picture

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EJ Moreno looks at a selection of films the Academy Awards needs to nominate… Last year, the Academy Awards brought in some of its lowest ratings, though improving over the year prior. While the state of the prestige Oscars isn’t dependent on viewership, it’s a sign that interest in the once hotly anticipated event is […]

Razzie Awards: Blonde leads nominations for 2023 Golden Raspberry Awards

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It’s the eve of the Oscar nominations, which means it’s time for the reveal of this year’s contenders for the Golden Raspberry Awards, a.k.a. The Razzies – a celebration of all that’s awful in cinema from the past twelve months. Leading the pack for nominations this year is Netflix’s controversial Marilyn Monroe film Blonde, and […]