The common refrain this season has been one of despair, of theatrical death by dearth.
Roland Emmerich’s film is an interesting case in that it may very well be its director’s best work; however, a better director is the one thing it surely needed.
The Help represents a pitiful lack of progress, and that’s hardly an indictment of the ways its characters and events are depicted on screen.
No film this year is poised to collect more Academy Award nominations than Michel Hazanavicius’s silent movie about the silent era.
If ever there were a Brad Pitt performance worthy of awards talk, surely it’s the actor’s turn in the unexpectedly sophisticated Moneyball.
It’s hard to discuss the Oscar chances of the cast without thinking of all four fuming co-leads as being yet more hamsters on the Academy’s wheel.
On September 18, Bryan Cranston will not win his fourth trophy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series.
This is a complete list of our predicted winners at the 2011 Academy Awards.
The ascendance of the stuttering king and Oscar’s perceived instantaneous regression into the mottled pastures of White Elephant Cinema has rendered some of our most reliable barometers speechless.
Six. That’s the number of times the DGA winner has failed to win the Oscar. Advantage: Tom Hooper. Two thousand and three.
And so it is that Oscar bloggers, seeking to itch the scratch Leo’s blatant assertion that campaigning, not prognosticating, is what wins Oscars, have collectively shifted the balance of power back to the plucky 14-year-old girl who tore through every scene (every. scene.)
We’ve been forced to play things a little more conservatively than we would like.
Conventional wisdom says that one film wins both sound awards only about half the time.
For Annette Bening, it seemed as if the stars in the Oscar sky had finally aligned into a shape that wasn’t that of Hilary Swank’s face.
In the five years since this category, which was previous known as Best Sound Effects, was bumped up from three to five nominations.
How to explain How to Train Your Dragon winning 10 Annie awards?
You should probably cross Sandy Powell off the list right off.
A category that seems almost too easy to call.
The first wave of guilds—directors, producers, and actors—all supplicated down on their knees for The King’s Speech.
Here’s one of those categories where the spoils usually go to whoever shows us the “most” of whatever it is they’re nominated for.
This ought to be chapter three in a series of prediction entries no longer than the amount of time it takes the orchestra to cut off the acceptance speeches of the winners in the short film categories.