Category: Oscars
Oscars 2010: The Traditional Over The Bold
When looking at past winners for Best Picture, it is winners like On The Waterfront, the first two Godfather films, The Silence Of The Lambs, Schindler’s…
For Your Consideration: Benny Safdie, Best Supporting Actor, Good Time
Connie Nikas: You’re incredible, do you understand? Nick Nikas: Yeah. Good Time has a run time of 101 minutes, it’s a non-stop thrill ride which…
Dear Oscar: Time to Stop the Squabbling & Invite Streaming to the Party
Evolution isn’t easy – just ask the dodo – but streaming productions are here to stay. They will grow in popularity. People will watch them and identify with the stories they tell. If AMPAS will not reach out and include them, I suggest they re-qualify the title of the big prize to be “Best Picture Made by a White Man Shown in a Public Building that Sells Popcorn”.
For Your Consideration: A Best Supporting Actress Trio, Get Out
Understandably, Daniel Kaluuya is the one actor from Get Out heaping most of the awards traction. The film is up for Best Picture and he is…
For Your Consideration: Wonder Woman, Best Picture
Wonder Woman, the film, mercifully ticks all the big screen entertainment boxes here. Gracefully progressing from one crucial sequence to the next, the comic book…
For Your Consideration: I, Tonya, Best Picture
America…they want someone to love, but they want someone to hate.” All she wanted to do was be the best figure skater in America. But…
For Your Consideration: Patrick Stewart, Best Supporting Actor, Logan
“I always know who you are. It’s just sometimes I don’t recognize you.” Charles Xavier, Logan Logan marked Patrick Stewart’s seventh film in the X-Men…
For Your Consideration: Michelle Pfeiffer, Best Supporting Actress, mother!
There is plenty to try and decipher about the psychological thriller mother!. For example, one could wonder whether the story about an unnamed couple trying to…
Review: Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape Of Water
Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape Of Water uses the unlikely, surreal story of a romance between a mute woman (the excellent, poised Sally Hawkins) and a captive, sentient sea-creature played…
For Your Consideration: The Florida Project, Best Picture
“The Florida Project” was Walt Disney’s 1960s-era code term for a planned East Coast amusement park, an euphemism justified by Disney’s fear that Orlando property…
For Your Consideration: Rachel Morrison, Best Cinematography, MUDBOUND
This is the closest a woman has gotten to being nominated for an Oscar in that impenetrable fortress of a category. As Morrison said when she was accepting her Kodak Vision Award in 2013, “It baffles me how women remain such a minority in an industry whose primary currency is visualizing human emotion….”
James Ivory – A Filmmaker with an Unobstructed View
James Ivory’s career-long intellectual freedom, precise observation of human interaction and fiercely independent spirit was instrumental in elevating film to the level where a book like Call Me by Your Name could be translated to cinema.
Oscars: All 89 Best Picture Winners Ranked
89 Best Picture Academy Award winners. Votes came in thick and fast over the two month window. Bloggers, journalists, film critics, movie buffs, Oscarologists, et…
Roger Deakins & That Elusive Oscar – Is This His Year?
Consider this: A filmography of 57 films The go-to camera dude for the A-List directors like the Coens and Denis Villeneuve 3 ASC (American…
