Tag: Academy Awards
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….”
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…
For Your Consideration: Call Me By Your Name, Best Picture
In the wake of Moonlight winning Best Picture, we have another LGBTQ+ film that makes a strong case to win Best Picture. That film is Call…
For Your Consideration: Christopher Nolan, Best Original Screenplay, Dunkirk
With the weight of Dunkirk‘s award season run seemingly on the shoulders of Christopher Nolan as Best Director, I wanted to bring his chances for…
Academy of Motion Pictures Arts And Sciences Down To 70 Eligible Original Songs
The likes of Taylor Swift, Nick Jonas, and Mary J. Blige make the shortlist for the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts And Sciences Eligible Original…
Filmotomy Podcast Episode 11 – Awards Season Chat With Susan Wloszczyna And Erik Anderson
In the absence of many of the regulars, including the usual recorder and editor Al Robinson, I put the pressure hosting the podcast on my…
No Gold For Steven Spielberg's The Color Purple
At the very beginning of 1985’s The Color Purple, there is an affecting scene where a woman gives birth. While shooting that very scene (the…
