The more movies he makes, the more Paul Greengrass’s have-it-both-ways m.o. as a filmmaker becomes clearer.
Zachary Heinzerling’s debut film has been one of the films more prominent on everyone’s lips this weekend.
This is a complete list of our predicted winners at the 2013 Academy Awards.
Despite the hysteria, it may not be appropriate yet to call a time of death on the decades and decades’ worth of precedent that will be shattered when Argo wins Best Picture.
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.
Subtlety isn’t a quality that dignifies the nominees in this category.
You would think with this title that Kevin Smith is going all political on the tea partiers and the far right in general.
Jennifer Lawrence is taking a page from Mo’Nique’s book and playing the campaign game by her own rules.
More than in any of the other categories it’s nominated in, the unreal fall from grace suffered by Zero Dark Thirty will be particularly palpable when it inevitably loses here.
Starting tomorrow, check back daily as we predict the winner in every Oscar category.
We’re sensing that, once again, Best Picture will fall just shy of 10 nominees.
The surefire frontrunners are Kathryn Bigelow, Ben Affleck, and Steven Spielberg.
Compared to most of the season’s races, Best Actress has remained somewhat open.
The one certainty of this year’s Original Screenplay field is a bit of 2010 déjà vu.
American Animal’s poster, like the film, finds common ground between the high- and lowbrow, the artful and the infantile.
See below for a list of the films that just missed making it onto our list of the best films of 2012, followed by our contributors’ individual ballots.
Consider Bigelow a virtual lock, tightening up the Best Director field alongside Steven Spielberg, Ang Lee, Ben Affleck, and, perhaps, Tom Hooper or David O. Russell.
Biopics may have the strongest track record in currying Academy favor, but tales of overcoming physical obstacles aren’t far behind.
Most filmgoers who see Lee’s magical-realist marine life, from bioluminescent jellyfish to migrating trout that fly, will be quick to dub the film the Visual Effects frontrunner.
The ad campaign for Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty is all about the act of snuffing out.