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
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 […]
Steven Spielberg says The Dark Knight should have received a Best Picture nomination
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
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 […]
Oscars 2023: Everything Everywhere All At Once leads nominations for 95th Academy Awards
The nominations for the 95th Academy Awards have been revealed this morning, with actors Riz Ahmed and Allison Williams hosting a global livestream announcement of all 23 categories, of which Everything Everywhere All At Once leads the field with eleven nominations in total. The multiverse-spanning film will contest the Best Picture Award alongside a stacked […]
Mia Goth in Pearl and why it needs to break the Oscars Horror curse
EJ Moreno dives into Pearl’s unlikely journey to the Academy Awards… “It has to be me.” While sitting in on her big audition, Pearl repeats, “It has to be me.” We are seeing a young woman’s drive and hunger for fame push her to do anything to achieve it. While our sweet Pearl doesn’t land […]
Guillermo del Toro is happy that the horror genre is finally getting Academy Awards recognition
There’s no doubt about it: It’s an excellent time to be a horror fan. This isn’t the first time that we’ve wrote about the horror genre’s surge in quality over the last several years, but yesterday’s list of the 90th Academy Awards nominees only prove that the genre is really starting to be elevated in […]
The year Heat was criminally overlooked by the Oscars
Tom Jolliffe looks back at the Oscars in 1996, when Heat was criminally overlooked by the Academy… The year was 1996, which looked back over the films of the previous year. It was a fairly strong year, and like a lot of the nomination lists throughout that decade there are some oddities. There are also […]
1975: The Year Francis Ford Coppola Dominated the Oscars
Tom Jolliffe looks back to the 1975 Academy Awards ceremony, when Francis Ford Coppola had The Godfather: Part II and The Conversation in competition… With the Oscars around the corner, now is a good time to look back at the 1975 ceremony. It was a year filled to the brim with exceptional films. Among an […]
Whiplash causes Academy friction, deemed “adapted” screenplay
Deadline reports today that Whiplash, Damien Chazelle’s superb Sundance winner, has been somewhat surprisingly classified by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences as an adapted script, rather than a original screenplay. Even stranger still was that the Academy apparently didn’t inform the director or the films distributor, Sony Pictures Classics, about the decision […]
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