Tag: Best Picture

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,…

Sometimes greatness in movies miss the boat with the Academy Awards. Or rather, those that vote. Be it a highly acclaimed documentary, an iconic Italian…

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…

2008 was another peculiar Oscar year, and literally a game-changer it would turn out wit regards to the way Best Picture would go thereafter. Slumdog Millionaire…

Perspectives of the Oscar race clearly differ from year-to-year, person-to-person, trends and momentum can mean everything, they can mean nothing. Franchises can be misrepresented by…

Remembering the day after the night before in 2015 when it was Birdhood versus Boyman, but there will be no talk of the twelve year…

So with all the movies released in the year 2013 it came down to two apparently. The Picture / Director split at the Oscar was…

So I’m going to go out on my own this one time only, and want to just salute the year of 2007 for Part 7….

Two perfectly pleasant and accomplished movies, with a taste of France and the movies, went head to head in 2012. But we are not going…

Had a certain movie budget-bombed as it looked for a while it would, then 1997 at the Oscars would have been a well fought out…

“It’s a clean sweep!” Steven Spielberg announced enthusiastically as he declared The Return Of The King winner of Best Picture – like we did not know…

Oh how I would like to start our Oscar-less series by writing resentfully about how Forrest Gump won over more voters in AMPAS than Pulp…

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…

Friday night at work I was listening to the InSession Podcast (Episode 209; Bonus “And the Winner Is… Vol. 3”) and JD and Brendan were…