The common refrain this season has been one of despair, of theatrical death by dearth.
This category makes me sad for what it exposes about the way Academy Award winners are made and potentially set up for embarrassing falls.
With The Departed, William Monahan turned what was, in Infernal Affairs, a smart concept given a terminally vague execution into a high-concept vehicle fit for mass consumption.
I’ve always liked the Dixie Chicks, if not for their music then for their outspokenness and refusal to play by Nashville’s rules.
If Martin Scorsese loses again this year he will become the director with the most nominations in this category without ever winning.
Sure, the last time the majority of nominations in this category belonged to a single film, said film actually won.
We seem to do better at picking a winner when we actually haven’t seen the nominated films.
So essentially meritless are the films up for this award, it’s hardly worth discussing the merits or demerits of each as a viable candidate.
Character trajectories have never come this easy—at least not since Tsotsi last year.
Yes, when making our three-out-of-five predictions on who would be nominated here, we argued how refreshing it was to see a prospective category stocked with supporting performances, instead of co-leads.
The only time a Pixar film has lost in this category was the only time one deserved to win.
To hear some tell it, Alexandre Desplat is just about the finest thing to happen to motion picture scoring since Bernard Herrmann or Franz Waxman.
In order to settle on a winner in this category it’s perhaps necessary to play the part of Armond White and determine which nominee most flatters the Hollywood elite’s liberal values.
It’s running neck and pec between the broody Muppet movie and the one whose cast looks like they’ve been assaulted by Animal wielding a scummy powder puff.
We’re not going to waste your time and make a case for anyone but Helen Mirren in this category.
Appropriately enough, we begin our Oscar prediction coverage by exorcising the foul demon spirit of Paul Haggis.
Is there a general consensus in the industry that Mary J. Blige is owed something?
The Oscar nominations were announced this morning by AMPAS president Sid Ganis and actress Salma Hayek.
Oscar trends continue to have shorter and shorter shelf lives as the award season calendar continues to pork up.
This isn’t Oscar time. It’s Ed time. Edward Copeland, that is.
The most depressing season of the year officially begins in late November and carries over into the early part of the new year.