Tag: AMPAS
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
100 Not Nominated For Oscars – Part 6
Dances With Wolves was the runaway winner on the night of the 63rd Oscars, a sweeping epic, and hard to argue about many of the…
Vote Oscars: What Are The Greatest Of The 89 Best Picture Winners?
This needs little explaining. We’re heading towards the 90th Academy Awards, so a mass vote to establish a ranked list of the 89 Best Picture…
