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 […]
What makes a great Oscar acceptance speech?
On the eve of the 92nd Academy Awards begins, a mixture of trepidation and excitement is rife among avid Oscar-watchers over what is quite possibly the ceremony’s most consistent source of entertainment: the acceptance speeches. Here, George Nash muses over what makes a great one… The shocks. The snubs. The nauseating self-importance. With so much […]
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 […]
Oscars: What Should Have Won – The Insider Over American Beauty for Best Picture of 1999
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
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 […]
Oscar Nominations and EJ’s Critics’ Choice Awards Adventure! | The Flickering Myth Podcast #132
Listen to the latest episode of The Flickering Myth Podcast… Allen, Gerald, Tori, and EJ are together again to discuss the recently announced Oscar nominations, and EJ’s trip to California for the 25th Annual Critics’ Choice Awards. Everyone gives their reactions to the latest Birds of Prey trailer, and the first Morbius trailer. Email in […]
Can Joker win Best Picture at the Academy Awards?
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
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 […]
This is the Year for More Horror at the Oscars
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
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 […]
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