Tag: Best Director
Best Director Oscars Predictions (January)
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,…
Best Director Oscars Predictions (December)
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….
Best Director Oscars Predictions (November)
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…
Best Director Predictions (October)
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…
For Your Consideration: Spike Lee, Best Director for BlacKkKlansman
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…
For Your Consideration: Pawel Pawlikowski, Best Director for Cold War
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…
Adam McKay Wins the Damn DGA…
… for the TV drama Succession. Thankfully, he did not win the Feature Film prized from the Directors Guild of America. That went to the…
And Here Are All Male Nominees (Again)
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…
For Your Consideration: Lynne Ramsay as Best Director for You Were Never Really Here
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…
The Best Director Race And Women Breaking The Circle Of Familiarity
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…
For Your Consideration: Paul Schrader, Best Director, First Reformed
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…
Oscars: Dissecting The Best Director Race
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…
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….
