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 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 […]
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences postpones 2021 Oscars by two months
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 […]
The Oscars may be postponed in 2021
A new report reveals that the Academy is considering a postponement to the 2021 Oscars. The global health crisis has upended most things in life and Hollywood has certainly been no different. Now, with all the delays, digital releases, trouble completing films, and social distancing measures, the Academy is considering a delay to next year’s […]
Academy Awards and Golden Globes change eligibility criteria due to global health crisis
With the global health crisis leaving cinemas closed around the world and forcing many of 2020’s films to postpone their releases or forego a theatrical run in favour of direct-to-streaming premieres, both the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association have announced that they have altered the eligibility criteria […]
Parasite makes history at the 92nd Academy Awards with Best Picture win
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 […]
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 […]
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