Posted in Oscars Screenwriting

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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Spielberg's The Post Resurfaces With North Carolina Film Critics Association Nominations

The North Carolina Film Critics Association pride themselves in not just putting forward their “bests” of the year in film. But also honoring some of…

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Dunkirk And Blade Runner 2049 Big Florida Film Critics Circle Awards Winners

The Florida Film Critics Circle announced their annual set of winners and gave the Best Picture prize to Dunkirk. However, they strongly embraced Blade Runner…

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Posted in Acting Women

Of Color, Creed, Culture, Country Of Origin: 21 Of The Very Best Lead Actresses From 2017

Its a sad look that there’s no WOC in this pic of us promoting our female lead films. The industry needs to become more inclusive…

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Women Film Critics Circle Honor Angelina Jolie's Foreign Language Film 'First They Killed My Father'

The Women Film Critics Circle (or WFCC) are the big wigs of the female critics association of women critics. A group of women writers, scholars,…

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The Suspicious Awards Run Of Mudbound

Something about the awards run of Mudbound has been rather suspicious. The film has picked up major nominations from the Broadcast Film Critics Association: Supporting Actress for Mary…

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Florida Film Critics Circle Nominations Shadow The Usual Suspects

The Florida Film Critics Circle announced their nominations, citing a whole host of familiar films battling it out. Guillermo Del Toro’s The Shape of Water appeared most…

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Get Out: It’s Not A Laughing Matter

Sight and Sound magazine recently declared Get Out it’s film of 2017. And while I personally disagree with this, I do think it’s a good,…

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Dunkirk And Raw Winners At The Seattle Film Critics Society Awards

The Seattle Film Critics Society awarded Get Out as their pick for best film of the year but still spread the wealth throughout their set…

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Las Vegas Film Critics Society Really Like Three Billboards

The Las Vegas Film Critics Society has announced their annual awards, and this year, they went with Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri as their Best…

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Three Billboards Heads London Critics’ Circle Film Awards Nominations

Top film critics from the UK announced their nominations for the 38th annual London Critics’ Circle Film Awards. The awards will be presented on 28th…

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Star Wars: The Last Jedi Might Be Too Big

The release of a new Star Wars film has always been a huge event. It has become something that is hyped about up to a…

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Filmotomy Podcast Episode 11 – Awards Season Chat With Susan Wloszczyna And Erik Anderson

In the absence of many of the regulars, including the usual recorder and editor Al Robinson, I put the pressure hosting the podcast on my…

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Steven Spielberg Films Ranked: 5-1

Steven Spielberg, a certain Drew Barrymore’s godfather, has still amazed and inspired us, and his peers, with the kind of prolific, excellent range of cinema…

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