This is a complete list of our predicted winners at the 2015 Academy Awards.
Tempted though I might be to end an Oscar season I began so long ago quoting Into the Woods’s Witch by dropping another choice lyric from “Last Midnight”, there’s a legitimate three-way race to call this year.
In what’s become an annual tradition, last weekend’s Writers Guild Awards weren’t much of a trial heat for the Oscars.
Even as Boyhood steamrolled the critics groups, even as it dominated the Golden Globes, we had our doubts about its frontrunner status here and in best picture.
A win for Mr. Turner, the only film here not to receive a nomination from the CDG, would be the second for a Mike Leigh production.
Last year we accurately predicted 23 out of 24 Oscar categories.
The Academy’s ever-mercurial music branch turned on to Desplat like a light switch starting with 2006’s The Queen, and in just 10 years, he’s racked up eight nominations.
Us in 2014 about the best production design Oscar, following a string of missed guesses in this category: “We don’t know shit.”
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.
Yes, gay panic-prone Mark Schultz, that was a joke at your expense.
The critics have spoken. The guilds have spoken. The Golden Globes have spoken.
Here are 10 essential moments that kept our eyes open and thoughts racing more than any other in 2014.
See below for a list of the films that just missed making it onto our list of the best films of 2014, followed by our contributors’ individual ballots.
Whether colorful or carefully composed, these posters aren’t just suggestions for adorning your home office or home-theater room.
A film about history that avoids it entirely. Not out of cowardice or lack of nerve, but because the head-on acknowledgement of Europe’s long 20th century is quite simply too painful.
Wes Anderson has become a master of the fetching teaser poster.