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Best Original Screenplay Oscars Predictions (December)

While the five nominees for Adapted Screenplay are almost set in stone, the race for Original Screenplay is overloaded with potential contenders. And picking just…

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Best Original Screenplay Oscars Predictions (November)

Aaron Sorkin is still sitting pretty in the frontrunner spot for The Trial of the Chicago 7 this month. At this point, it’s Sorkin’s to…

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Best Original Screenplay Predictions (October)

This category is curiously shaping up to potentially being a race between Aaron Sorkin and the father of his former collaborator David Fincher. While there…

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Writers Guild Awards Can Keep This a Race

Many pundits may have put a fork in this shortened season that has moved so fast, so furious. Barely getting over Golden Globe hangovers, Oscar…

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Independent Film: Metropolitan, Whit Stillman (1990)

Have you ever wondered how the other half lives or what goes on at those dazzling high society gatherings? Maybe you’re like Tom Townsend then….

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For Your Consideration: Sorry to Bother You, Best Original Screenplay

I had the honour of meeting Boots Riley this year at the London Film Festival. In fact, he shook my hand. And for a surreal…

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Awardscene: Adapted Screenplay and Original Screenplay

We’re back again to have an early look ahead at the potential contenders this awards season, as we head towards the Academy Awards. This episode…

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Original Screenplay Feud: Get Out v. Three Billboards

While those of us Oscar predictors are scrambling our brains trying to figure out what will win Best Picture, another category that we still can’t…

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The Writers Guild Of America Announced Their Annual List Of Nominees

There were some expected inclusions like Get Out, Lady Bird, Call Me By Your Name, and The Shape Of Water. But there were also some slight…

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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…

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100 Not Nominated For Oscars – Part 19

It is common law for many, many popular films, those loved by the moving-going public, and even professional film critics, to not make it big…

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100 Not Nominated For Oscars – Part 17

It is not fair to say that because A Beautiful Mind won Picture and Director, that the Academy were just not into darker movies. True,…

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100 Not Nominated For Oscars – Part 14

1996. When the Coen brothers realized the Academy liked them, they really liked them. Kind of. In the end they liked big, romantic, sorrowful, war-time epics. A beautiful…

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100 Not Nominated For Oscars – Part 10

Just before Barbara Streisand announced Clint Eastwood as Best Director for 1992 she said commented that the award was not for a man director, or…

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