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Oscars: Four Great Films That Should Have Been Nominated For Best Picture (But Weren’t)

April 24, 2021 by Graeme Robertson

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 […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Graeme Robertson, Movies Tagged With: Academy Awards, Children of Men, Cold War, Once Upon a Time in the West, Oscars, Se7en

Chloe Zhao’s Nomadland leads winners of the 93rd Academy Awards

April 26, 2021 by Gary Collinson

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 […]

Filed Under: Awards Season, Gary Collinson, Movies, News Tagged With: Academy Awards, Oscars

Oscars 2021: Best Documentary Short Film Nominees Reviewed

April 25, 2021 by Shaun Munro

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 […]

Filed Under: Movies, Reviews, Shaun Munro Tagged With: A Concerto Is a Conversation, A Love Song for Latasha, Academy Awards, Colette, Do Not Split, Hunger Ward, Oscars

Oscars 2021: Best Animated Short Film Nominees Reviewed

April 24, 2021 by Shaun Munro

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. […]

Filed Under: Movies, Reviews, Shaun Munro Tagged With: Academy Awards, Burrow, Genius Loci, If Anything Happens I Love You, Opera, Oscars, Yes-People

Ten Great Film Scores That Should Have Been Oscar Nominated (But Weren’t)

February 10, 2020 by admin

Hasitha Fernando with ten great film scores that should have been Oscar nominated but weren’t… The awards season has officially drawn to a close, culminating with Sunday’s Academy Awards. And like every year, there are snubs and surprises galore interspersed with a handful of sure-fire predictable wins. The category of Best Original Score isn’t one […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Awards Season, Hasitha Fernando, Movies Tagged With: Academy Awards, Batman, Beyond Rangoon, Blade Runner, Glory, Jurassic World, Psycho, The Ghost and the Darkness, The Good The Bad and the Ugly, The Hunt For Red October, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Six Great Performances That Should Have Been Oscar Nominated (But Weren’t)

February 9, 2020 by Graeme Robertson

Graeme Robertson with six great performances that should have been Oscar nominated but weren’t… It’s often seen as an actors dream to receive the much-coveted golden statue we know as the Oscar, with many great performances seeing their performers taking home the trophy and many more at least receiving the equally great honour of an […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Awards Season, Graeme Robertson, Movies Tagged With: Academy Awards, Beasts of No Nation, Destroyer, Idris Elba, Joaquin Phoenix, Lupita Nyong'o, Nicole Kidman, One Hour Photo, Phantom Thread, Robin Williams, Us, Vicky Krieps, You Were Never Really Here

Oscars 2021: Best Live-Action Short Film Nominees Reviewed

April 24, 2021 by Shaun Munro

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 […]

Filed Under: Movies, Reviews, Shaun Munro Tagged With: Academy Awards, Feeling Through, Oscars, The Letter Room, The Present, Two Distant Strangers, White Eye

Oscars 2021: Full list of nominations for the 93rd Academy Awards

March 15, 2021 by Gary Collinson

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 […]

Filed Under: Awards Season, Gary Collinson, Movies, News Tagged With: Academy Awards, Oscars

Netflix to campaign for the late Chadwick Boseman as Best Actor in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

October 21, 2020 by EJ Moreno

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 […]

Filed Under: Awards Season, Movies, News Tagged With: Academy Awards, Chadwick Boseman, Da 5 Bloods, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, netflix, Oscars

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences postpones 2021 Oscars by two months

June 15, 2020 by EJ Moreno

The show must go on, but now, it will have a later date than usual. Today, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences confirmed that the 2021 Oscars would not be taking place on February 28th. Instead, the 93rd Academy Awards telecast has been postponed two months, and will now take place on April […]

Filed Under: Awards Season, EJ Moreno, Movies, News Tagged With: Academy Awards, Oscars

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