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 […]
Oscars 2022: The Power of the Dog leads nominations for the 94th Academy Awards
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has today announced the nominees for the 94th annual Academy Awards, with Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog (Flickering Myth’s #1 movie of 2021) leading the field with 12 nominations overall including Best Picture and Best Director. The latter is a history-making nomination, with Campion becoming […]
Spider-Man: No Way Home becomes Sony’s highest-grossing movie ever as Marvel prepares Best Picture push
Having smashed “pandemic-era” records with one of the biggest openings of all time and went on to become the first film since 2019’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker to break the $1 billion mark at the box office, Sony Pictures is popping the champagne corks once more with the news that Spider-Man: No Way […]
Chloe Zhao’s Nomadland leads winners of the 93rd Academy Awards
Having firmly established its credentials during a hugely successful awards season, Nomadland led the winners of the 93rd Academy Awards this Sunday with the film picking up the Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director (Chloe Zhao) and Best Actress (Frances McDormand). Zhao – who next directs Marvel’s cosmic superhero adventure Eternals – became the first woman […]
Oscars 2021: Best Documentary Short Film Nominees Reviewed
Shaun Munro reviews 2021’s Oscar-nominated documentary short films… The final instalment of our three-part series delving into this year’s short-form Oscar nominees tackles the Best Documentary Short field. Of the three short film categories, this collective is by far the most pervasively upsetting and difficult-to-watch, but their journalistic, humanistic value absolutely speaks for itself. Several […]
Oscars 2021: Best Live-Action Short Film Nominees Reviewed
Shaun Munro reviews 2021’s Oscar-nominated live-action short films… We’re right on the eve of the 93rd Academy Awards, and in an attempt to foreground the typically under-discussed short film categories, this review series tackles each of the three fields – Animated, Live-Action, and Documentary. True to form, this year’s batch of live-action nominees offer hard-hitting […]
Oscars: Four Great Films That Should Have Been Nominated For Best Picture (But Weren’t)
Graeme Robertson with four great films that should have been nominated for Best Picture… The Oscars draw ever near and, even with the pandemic doing its best to screw things up, this year has been gifted with a very strong line-up. However, we’re not talking about those films, instead, as we did last year, we’re […]
Oscars 2021: Best Animated Short Film Nominees Reviewed
Shaun Munro reviews 2021’s Oscar-nominated animated short films… With the 93rd Academy Awards imminently due to take place, what better time to shine a light on the typically underserved short film categories? This year’s slate of nominees for the Best Animated Short Film Oscar range from traditional and quaint to boundary-pushing, transgressive, and inevitably heartbreaking. […]
Oscars 2021: Full list of nominations for the 93rd Academy Awards
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has announced the nominations for the 93rd Academy Awards, with Netflix and David Fincher’s Mank leading the field with nominations in ten categories overall. Mank will contest the Oscar for Best Picture alongside The Father, Judas and the Black Messiah, Minari, Nomadland, Promising Young Woman, Sound of […]
Netflix to campaign for the late Chadwick Boseman as Best Actor in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
While the award season heats up, one thing seems set in stone, and that is a nomination for Chadwick Boseman in either of his two films this year for Netflix. Before his passing, Boseman completed Da 5 Bloods and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, both awards contenders in their own right. It seems now like Netflix […]
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