In this Oscar race, one nominee benefits from nostalgia while another will likely coast to victory because of category fraud.
Emmanuel Lubezki’s ornamental imagery for The Revenant signifies nothing so much as the look that $135 million can buy a director.
Four other best picture nominees and one unexpectedly snubbed also-ran would seem to make for a close race.
For Ennio Morricone, being hitched up to Quentin Tarantino’s nostalgia-flattering métier, will be enough to ensure his first competitive Oscar.
In the style categories, Oscar voters have almost always preferred candidates who show and tell.
Brie Larson, in Room, fights back tooth and claw from the brink just as much as the frontrunner in the Oscar race for best actor.
Every year, Oscar bloggers put on a pretty good show in pointing out how, unlike all previous years, this year is truly a wild, unpredictable free-for-all.
See below for a list of the films that just missed making it onto our list of the best films of 2015, followed by our contributors’ individual ballots.
Carol slots into Haynes’s filmography like a wintry, understated cousin to Far from Heaven.
Amateurish and hyperbolic, this animated feature directed by Pasha Roberts makes quite clear his political leanings.