The common refrain this season has been one of despair, of theatrical death by dearth.
Existentialist angst has never been so obsessively on the mind of the AMPAS voter.
The critics have spoken. The guilds have spoken. The Golden Globes have spoken.
Glancing over this year’s Emmy nominations is to marvel again at just how much the television landscape has changed in 20 years.
This is a complete list of our predicted winners at the 2014 Academy Awards.
Like anyone who’s been covering what’s become, as the party line goes, “the closest Best Picture race in recent memory,” I’ve gone through many mental rewrites of this top-prize breakdown.
In the absence of a de facto Best Picture frontrunner, the Oscar here usually goes to the slickest contender.
I don’t expect you to read this, and you have every right not to.
It’s still no Drag Race, but the contest for costume design just got a little bit more interesting over the weekend.
This upcoming Sunday, the collective nightmare known as awards season will be effectively over.
This past weekend, Gravity claimed the Live Action Film award for sound mixing from the Cinema Audio Society, one more precursor voting body whose results could prove prescient when it comes to Oscar’s March 2nd endgame.
It’s a good thing the Best Director category didn’t go the way of Best Picture to accommodate more nominees, because this year’s campaign has only ever been a three-man race even in its most competitive stages.
The ultimate takeaway here is that predicting this category is a total crapshoot—that, or we don’t know shit.
Last year’s tie in this category allowed us the unique opportunity to call it either 50 percent right or 50 percent wrong.
If there’s anything with even the slightest ability to nudge Cate Blanchett’s path to Oscar victory off course, it’s the seemingly endless Farrowgate scandal.
If this year’s Best Actor race is all about which nominee brandishes the most compelling story, then Christian Bale faces some mighty long odds.
There’s a great line in Jules and Jim about fictions that “revel in vice to preach virtue.”
To shove the elephant out of the room right off the bat, two actually relevant things are working against Woody Allen’s chances for a win here.
As was recently reported by the hive of Oscarologists over at Gold Derby, American Hustle has history on its side when it comes to the acting races.
This year’s crop of Original Score nominees hits all the markers that we’ve come to expect.
Oscar’s documentary lineup typically constitutes the black sheep-iest of the award show’s 24 races, but this year’s crop of nominees is less odd, less disreputable, than usual.