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Parasite makes history at the 92nd Academy Awards with Best Picture win

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Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite made history at the 92nd Academy Awards last night, becoming the first ever non-English language film to be honoured with the Oscar for Best Picture. Parasite collected four awards in total, adding Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best International Feature Film to its Best Picture win, while 1917 – a […]

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

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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 […]

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

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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 […]

Can Joker win Best Picture at the Academy Awards?

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EJ Moreno with an opinion video on Joker’s Oscar chances… In the video below, join EJ Moreno as he breaks down one of the year’s biggest awards contenders, Joker. With 11 Oscar nominations and a few wins at other award shows, it’s looking like the Year of the Clown. But can it take home the […]

Joker leads the nominations for the 2020 Academy Awards

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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have announced the nominations for the 92nd Academy Awards have been announced today, with the likes of Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman, Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Sam Mendes’ 1917, Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story, and Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite all vying for recognition. However, it’s […]

Gal Gadot shares her thoughts on Wonder Woman being overlooked at the Oscars

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When Wonder Woman — defying all odds — released to rave reviews last June, many were wondering if the film may attract some Oscar buzz. Not only was the Patty Jenkins directed film the best of the troubled DC Extended Universe, but Wonder Woman was just a good film, period. However, browsing the list of […]

Jason Blum wonders why the Academy Awards overlook the horror genre

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Over the past few years, horror fans have been blessed with some real gems. Movies like Split, Get Out, The Witch, It Follows and most recently Stephen King’s It prove that there is a lot of potential lying in the horror genre. Many of these films have competed with, or outright exceeded films in other genres […]

This is the Year for More Horror at the Oscars

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EJ Moreno on seeing more horror films at the Oscars… To say the Academy Awards and horror movies have a complicated relationship would be an understatement. Throughout the storied history of the award show, the horror genre has rarely got proper recognition. That’s not saying it never happens, and I do believe some people forget […]

Here are the 20 movies still in contention for the Best Visual Effects Oscar

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As awards season begins to heat up ahead of the Academy Award nominations this January, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences have announced that 20 films have advanced to the next round of voting for the Best Visual Effects Oscar; here they are: Ad Astra The Aeronauts Aladdin Alita: Battle Angel Avengers: Endgame […]

Warner Bros. launches its Wonder Woman Oscar campaign

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20th Century Fox wasted little time in pushing Logan to the Oscar voters, and now Warner Bros. has kicked off its own Academy Award campaign for this year’s acclaimed DC blockbuster Wonder Woman by launching a For Your Consideration page. The studio has put the film forward for fifteen categories, including Best Picture, Best Director […]