Category: Oscars
A Quick Look At "Early Bird" Oscar Contenders
Ladies and gentlemen, we have officially reached the beginning of the Super Bowl for movie lovers: Oscar season! With the Telluride, Toronto, and Venice Film…
Re-Examining the 2019 Best Actress Race
So, back in March right after the 90th Oscars took place, I did a premature overview of the Best Actress race. But now that festival…
Scorsese and the Oscars: So Many People Have Been Wishing This For Me (2004 – 2016)
Following the complete shutout for The Gangs of New York two years prior there may have been a touch of Academy guilt attached to the potential…
Scorsese and the Oscars: Furthering Film Education With Promising Period Pieces (1993 – 2002)
Martin Scorsese’s next motion picture proved he had enough, setting out to make a costume drama, an adaptation, real Oscar-bait — I’m joking of course….
Scorsese and the Oscars: Actors' Wins, For and Against (1973 – 1991)
Heading into the 1973 Oscars, up-and-coming actor Robert De Niro was hotly fancied for a Best Supporting Actor nomination. And he had two very good…
Filmotomy Oscars Quiz Results
I do believe the gold dust has just about settled on this year’s riveting awards season. That might be my cue then to announce the…
Why The Shape of Water is the Oscars Best Picture of 2017
Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water is a beautiful tale of love conquering all. The plot is relatively simple; a fairytale for troubled times set…
Best Actress 2019: Premature Predictions
Even though we already have put the 90th Academy Awards behind us, who says it’s too early to look ahead? There’s a wide range of…
The 90th Academy Awards Showed Signs Of Moving Forward And Backwards
How do I explain how the 90th Academy Awards went? Well, for the most part, every award went according to plan which made the ceremony…
90th Academy Awards Winners – A Predictable End to a Turbulent Season
The 90th Academy Awards are all done and dusted. Oh how far we have all come. Here are the winners in case you were on…
Filmotomy Team Oscar Predictions
Yes, it is almost time to watch film actors, directors, producers, and writers award the newest minted Oscar winners to their colleagues and friends. Sunday…
A Few Words On This Sunday's Oscars..
The 90th Academy Awards will be taking place on Sunday. It is a time where we celebrate the best in cinema from 2017 and watch…
Oscar Rant – Building a Better Mousetrap
Oscar is a snapshot in time, a prom queen, the MVP of a game. It’s borderline idol worship by those in pursuit of “winning”, a validation that our tastes are in sync for some, a betting competition for many, and a glammed-up sideshow of camp for the rest of us.
An Epic Oscars Argument For The English Patient
The battle of the Oscars an astonishing 21 years ago might tell us just how much the awards race has changed. I mean, heading into…
