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.
As fundamental to The Island of St. Matthews as the landscape may be, the faces reign supreme.
This season presents two Oscar contenders, Hugo and The Artist, that both bask in the dreaminess of cinema’s early days.
Blame it on the idiot box.
This is a complete list of the winners at the 79th Annual Academy Awards.
Anyone who has followed this year’s Oscar race for Best Picture knows that the stats above are not meant as a joke.
Because Oscar history tells us that the winner of this award aligns often with the winner of the top prize, we were hoping for ACE to shed some light on what may be the tightest best picture race ever.
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.
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.