Every year, Oscar lets us know what matters to people who make movies. While those of us who write about film may have our favorites, only Academy members get to choose who gets nominated. This year, as the industry continues to wish upon a star for audiences to return to theaters, the honored films reconfirm […]
Best Picture Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Parasite 1917 The Irishman Marriage Story Joker (if there is 6) Jojo Rabbit (if there is 7) Little Women (if there is 8) Ford v. Ferarri (if there is 9) The Farewell (if there is 10) Best Director Quentin Tarantino – Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Academy Award winning filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar has a divisive range of films that include an Oscar-nominated performance from Penelope Cruz in “Volver”, to airplane orgies in “I’m So Excited“. His latest “Pain and Glory” premiered at Cannes earlier this year to rave reviews and awards buzz, especially for frequent collaborator Antonio Banderas. Almodóvar turns the
What the mainstream public may not realize, unless they follow the awards race, is that something is happening this year that hasn’t happened before. In a normal year, by the time we get to this point in the race, two films emerge as the challengers for best picture. Last year it was “La La Land”
This visually beautiful and engaging animation from the Ghibli Studio combines fantasy with deep human experiences of loss, loneliness, love, and desperation simply through visual animation, music, and a few shouts. It reminded me of last year’s Swiss Army Man, with a man stranded on an isolated island showing the value of fantasy in survival,
The nominations are in, so it’s time to predict the winners. Dustin Chase will update his predictions for the winners in each feature film category every week until the big day on February 26th.
Even though the 88th Annual Academy Awards are in the books, foreign film nominee A War is finally making its theatrical debut. It’s the 13th time Denmark has been nominated in the category, certainly a country favorite of the committee. However, after seeing a variety of the foreign film submissions this year, A War doesn’t
Making her directorial debut, Deniz Gamze Ergüven delivers a powerful film that explores the older customs of Northern Turkey and the adverse effects it has on children coming up in the modern age.
Son of Saul gives us an inside view of what took place in Auschwitz-Birkenau, one of the German concentration camps during WWII.
