Tag: Best Director

Chloé Zhao winning Best Director is the closest thing we have to a lock this year. Not to jinx her chances, but it now seems…

Is there any stopping the unstoppable force that is Chloé Zhao? At this point, Zhao has won more critics awards than Bong Joon-ho last year,…

With a clean sweep of all seven Best Director critics awards so far, Chloé Zhao is well on her way to becoming an unstoppable frontrunner….

We awards pundits are becoming increasingly excited by the possibility of the nominees for Best Director potentially being the most diverse line-up ever. There’s a…

With Denis Villeneuve and Steven Spielberg out of this year’s race and still no certainty if Wes Anderson will follow them into 2021, the five…

Lee’s gotta have it! I will probably not be watching the Oscars this year, but I will probably be looking at updates on who is…

Like Roma, Cold War is a deeply personal film for its director, Pawel Pawlikowski. Cold War tells the somewhat tragic romantic tale of musicians Zula…

… for the TV drama Succession. Thankfully, he did not win the Feature Film prized from the Directors Guild of America. That went to the…

Oh dear, have we not learned anything now from last year? Yesterday, the nominees were finally announced for the 91st Academy awards, and like many…

Debuting at Cannes Film Festival in 2011, We Need To Talk About Kevin asserted Lynne Ramsay‘s place in contemporary indie cinema as a wholly unique…

At this current rate, they could just have Natalie Portman present the Best Director category at the Oscars this year. Since it’s bound to be…

Paul Schrader has been kicking around Hollywood for a long time, but he has never truly been rewarded for his hard work and effort. Schrader…

Time to once again put on my Oscar hat, ladies and gentlemen. For this post, I will be dissecting the Best Director race. Much like…

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…