Tom Jolliffe looks at the recent decision to introduce a new Academy Award category… The Oscars are always contentious. It’s the ‘big’ award ceremony. It’s the one. No one really pays much attention to the Golden Globes, or anything else. The Oscar is the one statue everyone in Hollywood strives for. So now, in their […]
The Academy’s ‘Achievement in Popular Film’ is a demeaning category
Ricky Church on the new Oscar category ‘Achievement in Popular Film… The Academy Awards is the film industry’s most prestigious event of the year, celebrating outstanding achievements in a wide array of behind the scenes filmmaking from direction, acting to sound design and more. That’s how the ceremony is presented to audiences at least and […]
Academy Awards to introduce ‘Achievement in Popular Film’ category
For several years, fans and moviegoing audiences have bemoaned the fact the Academy of Arts and Sciences often neglects some of the industry’s biggest blockbusters for more serious and ‘artsy’ films. Instead, films such as The Dark Knight, Star Wars: The Force Awakens or Avengers have been relegated to the technical awards of sound editing and visual effects rather […]
Steven Spielberg thinks Netflix films are TV movies and shouldn’t qualify for the Oscars
Out on the promotional rounds for his new film Ready Player One, legendary director Steven Spielberg has been chatting about current trends in filmmaking – and specifically, the rise of original content on streaming services such as Netflix. “A lot of studios today would rather just make branded, tentpole, guaranteed box office hits from their […]
Oscars 2018: Full list of winners from the 90th Academy Awards
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honoured the very best in film last night in Hollywood at the 90th Academy Awards, with Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water winning four Oscars in Best Picture, Best Director, Best Production Design and Best Original Score. On the acting from, Gary Oldman and Frances McDorman […]
The Oscars: Does the Academy know better than the fans?
George Chrysostomou on the Academy Awards… The yearly debate has reared its head again as to whether the Oscars truly capture the feelings that audiences had towards films in 2017. Whilst there is always the ongoing issue of the ever increasing divide between fans and the critics, as evidenced by recent pickings such as Star Wars: […]
Robbing the Dead: Coco, Animated Films and the Oscars
Henry Bevan on Coco and the Oscars’ aversion to animated film… My granddad became a husk when he was diagnosed with dementia. He looked the same, but he had died before he actually died. A football revived him. A former player and lifelong fanatic, if you put a ball in front of him, his grace […]
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 […]
Where Art Thou? A look at 2018’s forgotten Oscar contenders
Matt Rodgers on 2018’s forgotten Oscar contenders… As Jimmy Kimmel steps out onto the Dolby Theatre stage to deliver his introduction to the 90th Academy Awards, spare a thought for those who still have their pre-ordered tuxedo hanging in the closet, or that dress they’d practiced the red carpet walk in still tagged for return, […]
Oscars: What Should Have Won – L.A. Confidential Over Titanic for Best Picture of 1997
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 […]