A buzzworthy turn overshadowing a movie’s failings is a trend this Oscar season.
The men in Alexander Payne’s movies are on a constant journey.
In the minus column, Woodley is also proving to be an arm in the recent hydra of woman-hating entertainment news.
As you might have noticed from our previous Oscar posts, one of the hottest topics among we Slant prognosticators is just how many trophies Argo is capable of collecting.
This is a complete list of our predicted winners at the 2012 Academy Awards.
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.
When it comes to film editing, marveling at how rhythmically one shot feeds another is hardly sufficient in predicting an Oscar winner.
Conventional wisdom suggested that adaptations of the biggest bestsellers would make up much of this year’s shortlist.
If we had been more emotionally involved with Hunt in this film, we might have found it more moving.
If some of those prophets who called the nomination for Demián Bichir still see something we don’t, then the whispering buzz that the actor is poised to pull the ultimate upset could indeed be true.
Less a race than a ping-pong match, this year’s battle for Best Director has shifted favor from an obvious lock to a popular spoiler and back again.
Let’s keep the voting blather to a minimum and focus on what seem to be the most pivotal factors in this year’s top race.
Michael Fassbender appeared in almost as many movies this year as Oldman has throughout his career.
The directing race has boiled down to nine names, four of which you can pretty safely etch into stone.
It’s both unfair and too easy to shake out predictions for this category based on what is most likely to appeal to the Kindle Fire set.
Which performance will land Jessica Chastain her first Oscar nomination?
Stoking one’s cynicism over this category is the very real probability that Jonah Hill will be an Oscar nominee.
Payne’s films don’t have the distinct visual styles of those by Quentin Tarantino or Wes Anderson, but they’re quickly recognizable just the same.
A Best Actress nomination for Mara doesn’t seem likely, either, even with the Golden Globe nod and handful of critics’ honors she’s got under her studded belt.
The Descendants is unassumingly superb, and it’s sure to clinch a whole lot of Oscar nominations. Indeed, it’s a Clooney.