Tag: for your consideration
For Your Consideration: On Her Shoulders, the Best Documentary Feature of 2018
With the Oscars Best Documentary Feature competition tougher than ever, let’s shine a light of the extraordinary On Her Shoulders for Academy consideration.
Review: Dogman
With Dogman, tenacious Italian filmmaker, Matteo Garrone, has crafted a gritty, accessible social landscape. A perfect fit for the film’s ambiance, which is both charismatic…
For Your Consideration: 'Matangi / Maya / M.I.A.' is a Best Documentary Feature Essential
I fly like paper, get high like planes, If you catch me at the border I got visas in my name. The incomparably talented, swagga-some…
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…
For Your Consideration: Tunisia's Oscars Entry, Beauty and the Dogs
The opening shot of Beauty and the Dogs, a grueling, exceptional Tunisian film, sees 21-year-old Mariam jigging, as she applies make up in the mirror….
For Your Consideration: Kathryn Hahn Deserves a Best Actress Nod for Private Life
I am a firm believer that if you ever feel like a given year has been a “weak year” for movies, you probably just haven’t…
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…
For Your Consideration: Widows as a Big Oscar Player – Because it Has the Balls to Pull This Off
There’s already talk in the Oscars realm, with months to go, that perhaps only three films can win Best Picture. One of those not being…
Consider A Fantastic Woman For Best Foreign Language Film
One main narrative surrounding this year’s Oscar race is how it has been the year of the woman. Our Best Picture frontrunners are Lady Bird,…
ELIO, OSCAR… OSCAR, ELIO
Status in the industry, body of work, relevance and “importance” of the character, and, ultimately, how the Academy wants to be viewed, all come into play. All are understandable, with one exception – that is the reverse ageism that exists specifically targeted at male actors. Unlike the other three acting categories, there is not a single portrayal of a character under 30 in Oscar’s Best Lead Actor lexicon.
For Your Consideration: Benny Safdie, Best Supporting Actor, Good Time
Connie Nikas: You’re incredible, do you understand? Nick Nikas: Yeah. Good Time has a run time of 101 minutes, it’s a non-stop thrill ride which…
Dear Oscar: Time to Stop the Squabbling & Invite Streaming to the Party
Evolution isn’t easy – just ask the dodo – but streaming productions are here to stay. They will grow in popularity. People will watch them and identify with the stories they tell. If AMPAS will not reach out and include them, I suggest they re-qualify the title of the big prize to be “Best Picture Made by a White Man Shown in a Public Building that Sells Popcorn”.
For Your Consideration: A Best Supporting Actress Trio, Get Out
Understandably, Daniel Kaluuya is the one actor from Get Out heaping most of the awards traction. The film is up for Best Picture and he is…
For Your Consideration: Wonder Woman, Best Picture
Wonder Woman, the film, mercifully ticks all the big screen entertainment boxes here. Gracefully progressing from one crucial sequence to the next, the comic book…
