The Boston Film Critics Online Name Mad Max: Fury Road the Best Film of 2015
BEST PICTURE: MAD MAX: FURY ROAD BEST DIRECTOR: George Miller, MAD MAX: FURY ROAD BEST ACTOR: Michael B. Jordan, CREED BEST ACTRESS: Saoirse Ronan, BROOKLYN BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Sylvester Stallone,...
View ArticleEx Machina Wins Big at British Independent Film Awards
Best Picture: Ex Machina Best Director: Alex Garland, Ex Machina Richard Harris Award: Chiwetel Ejiofor Best Actress: Saiorse Ronan, Brooklyn Best Actor: Tom Hardy, Legend Best Supporting Actress:...
View ArticleLook Silence wins Best Doc at IDA Documentary Awards
Gregory Ellwood calls Look of Silence the “Oscar frontrunner,” but I’m not so sure about that. The Oscar doc branch is a strange and unpredictable bunch. The last Joshua Oppenheimer doc did not win...
View ArticleCarol leads 2016 Golden Globes with 5 nominations
Best Picture (Drama) Carol Mad Max: Fury Road The Revenant Room Spotlight Best Picture (Musical or Comedy) The Big Short Joy The Martian Spy Trainwreck Best Director – Motion Picture Todd Haynes –...
View Article74 Original Songs Eligible for Oscar
Am I right that there is no Love & Mercy on this list? Wow, way to go Academy. “Happy” from “Altered Minds” “Home” from “Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip” “None Of Them Are You” from...
View ArticlePredictions Friday – Spotlight, Tom McCarthy Take the Lead as Pundits Wonder...
Birdman. Most of us in the punditry world still don’t have an explanation for Birdman’s sudden popularity among industry voters. It was liked perfectly fine out of Telluride but not considered a...
View ArticleDee Rees Tops AwardsDaily’s Ten Most Influential New Voices in Film
Dee Rees – Mudbound is a slow burn of a film that depicts an invisible war in post-WWII America, not on the streets but in the fields, in the rural communities where black and white citizens are...
View ArticleBest Actress – Subversive Women Reaching Outside the System
It is said that well behaved women seldom make history. That is true of most of the strongest performances in the Best Actress race this year. They are women who take matters into their own hands,...
View ArticleChristopher Plummer Brought in as Fixer to Replace Kevin Spacey in All the...
Kevin Spacey has been cut from Ridley Scott’s upcoming All the Money in the World. A whole trailer was cut, footage was filmed. Now, Christopher Plummer will do the reshoots in hopes of a seamless lift...
View ArticleThe Oscars Put to the Test – How to Separate the Art from the Behavior
The first question people asked me when the Harvey Weinstein story broke was whether the Academy was prepared to start chucking members whose past included charges of sexual assault and/or rape. Within...
View ArticleWhy Lady Bird Might Win Best Picture, and Why it Might Not
This is the first of an analysis of films that are in the conversation for Best Picture of the Year. Why Lady Bird Might Win Best Picture Lady Bird enters the awards race from the sweet spot of...
View Article(POLL) Best Actress Will Be a Fiery Showdown
All Quiet on the Meryl Streep Front as we wait for Meryl’s performance in The Post to drop and see how it might shift the Best Actress race. Will she, won’t she? It’s hard to say right now. It’s hard …
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