It’s time to gather for the 2020 Academy Awards, which… may be the most boring in recent memory. The favorites currently seem to be overwhelming, and with no host to carry us through the proceedings, if 191...
> The Academy, in its infinite wisdom, has decided to fiddle once again with the Best Picture category. Instead of 5 nominees, as was the case pre-2009, or 10, as we’ve had the past 2 years, now no one will know jus...
It’s a very good weekend to be a Weinstein. First Weinstein Company’s The Master set new per-theatre records for a live-action movie release without a stage show, and now the tidings from Toronto are lined ...
So, is it over? It certainly feels over. Voting for the Academy Awards ends tomorrow, and last night’s win at the Writers Guild for Best Adapted Screenplay cemented Argo’s astonishing streak of victories ov...
> Moving on… As we all know, last night was the Rise Of the Planet Of the Black-and-White Silent French People. For some of us, this was not good news. But there’s always next year! Which means thi...
THE FABELMANS (Universal – November 11): Like all superheroes, Steven Spielberg has an origin story, and he tells it in The Fabelmans, whose world premiere was far and away the signature event of this year’...
We’re live-blogging the Oscars tonight, for what may be a historic night for La La Land–or not The red carpet arrivals were notable for their lack of political commentary, and we’ll see how long that ...
Oscar buzz has been trailing THE SESSIONS (which was then called The Surrogate) since it was unveiled at Sundance in January, and with good reason. For Academy members, it doesn’t get much better than a warm “base...
>Updated Oscar odds confirm a complete snooze is in store for Sunday’s Academy Awards as The Artist and director Michel Hazanavicius are heavy favorites to win Best Picture and Best Director, bringing a very French flavor...
Michael Lewis’ book Moneyball was a marvelous read, but seemed like dim source material for a movie. Credit, then, is due to the creators of the film version–the various producers, screenwriters Steven Zailia...
The odds-on favorite for this year’s Best Director Oscar can’t win. There’s little doubt at this point that if Ben Affleck had only been nominated for Best Director this year, he would have run away wit...
Almost anyone could win Best Supporting Actor this year. All of the nominees delivered acclaimed performances in highly-praised films, and all are previous winners, so none of them would necessarily take precedence as ...
> The Academy limits the number of movie ads that can be aired on the Oscar telecast (until recent years, they didn’t allow any), so as not to make the night look like the awards are shilling for the studios. (God f...