For practitioners of the form, like Daniel Mindel, who’s never shot a film digitally, the choice here will be between The Grand Budapest Hotel or Ida.
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.
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.
This year’s crop of Original Score nominees hits all the markers that we’ve come to expect.
No Oscar category has become as big a flash point among cinephiles as the cinematography prize.
Although the conclusion is foregone, this year’s visual effects category reveals some hard truths about the current state of big-budget moviemaking.
We come to it at last.
The most pleasant surprise of this awards season has been the widespread embrace of Her.
Believe it or not, we know exactly what’s going to happen at Sunday’s Golden Globe Awards.
It’s practically blasphemous to discount Meryl Streep as a nominee.
See below for a list of the films that just missed making it onto our list of the best films of 2013, followed by our contributors’ individual ballots.
I looked back on the year and thought about single cinematic images that knocked me flat.
If I had to bet which Oscar contender will score the most nominations without a single win, I’d go for Saving Mr. Banks.