Mark Harris’s seductive biography understands Nichols as a wizard of process.
Journalist Mark Harris discusses Five Came Back and Hollywood’s past and present.
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.
To shove the elephant out of the room right off the bat, two actually relevant things are working against Woody Allen’s chances for a win here.
The film is unavoidably slight, but there’s a certain pleasure in watching talented people wax passionate about a common source of inspiration.
This is a film that most would agree boasts a whole lot of locks and scant few question marks.
That the Best Picture category’s “Will it be six or will it be seven?” question was settled as close to 10 as possible without actually being 10 isn’t merely a mark of how much of a mess this year’s Oscars are.
To hear everyone tell it, it’s all still going to boil down to a grudge match between Contender #1 and Contender #2, the same as it usually is.