The common refrain this season has been one of despair, of theatrical death by dearth.
Mahershala Ali’s performance self-effacingly articulates the humanity of a man that so many in our country would like to pretend is non-existent.
We feel involuntarily compelled to speculate on how Denzel Washington could edge out Casey Affleck at the last minute.
In the end, the aggressively woke Zootopia’s message comes down to telling us that racism is bad.
If the cutoff music begins to play, we hope La La Land director Damien Chazelle hauls off and just starts scatting.
Measuring the remove doc filmmakers place between subjects and audiences is sometimes all that’s necessary to pinpoint a winner in this category.
We can’t quite dismiss the possibility that JT could sneak a win for his highly template-dependent Trolls ditty.
This year’s Grammy Awards are shaping up to be a contest between Adele and Beyoncé.
The spoils in this category are likely to go to one of three class acts.
That La La Land composer Justin Hurwitz will have to give an acceptance speech on February 26 is a certainty.
Linus Sandgren’s CinemaScopic aspect ratio is truly among the only elements giving La La Land any scope.
Flip a coin to choose between Orlando von Einsiedel’s The White Helmets and Marcel Mettelsiefen’s Watani.
Making this category hard to predict isn’t always the lack of exposure most of the films have prior to being nominated.
Piper’s story of a sanderling trying to transcend its fear of water feels like an outtake from a Planet Earth episode.
A victory for Asghar Farhadi would be nothing short of a rebuke to our president’s politics of fear.
Let’s honor Viola Davis’s impending win for what it is: a moment of truth, clarity, and justice.
“I gotta watch this now?!” said my fellow awards pundit Eric Henderson on the morning the Oscar nominations were announced.
Here are our best bets to get past the first heat and maybe earn a few nasty tweets from our new POTUS.
Coming into this year’s Cannes Film Festival, it looked like the programmers had come up with one of their strongest lineups in a long time.
This is a list of our predicted winners at the 2016 Academy Awards with links to individual articles.
Who would’ve thought that the triumph of 12 Years a Slave would give so many Oscar voters the chance to absolve themselves of any further obligation toward racial concerns?