Of the four acting categories, Best Supporting Actor is always my favorite. This is a category that is always up in the air in terms of who is going to be nominated. Will it be a past winner? A wily veteran looking for their due? A hot up-and-coming actor making a splash? A great character actor who is moving up the ranks from “that guy” status? Every year is full of a who’s who of…
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This year’s Best Actor race is an interesting one. Four of the actors nominated in the category this year have been nominated for Oscars in previous years, including one of them winning once. The fifth nominee, and arguably the front runner at this point, is a rising star. However, I would argue that there are only two good performances in this category this year. I’m not going to say which two, but in my eyes,…
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The Best Supporting Actress category is always a great category. Every year we get a great mix of veterans, past winners, and newbies and this year is no different. The eclectic group of actresses includes two past winners, two newcomers, one of which I had never heard of before, and one of the most overdue actresses in the business. Here are my picks for the best performances from this year’s Best Supporting Actress nominees. …
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I’ll be straight up with it: this year’s Best Picture nominees are not great. In fact, this is arguably the worst Best Picture line-up of the decade and one of the very worst of the century (the only year I could think that is worse than this one is 2009, the year Slumdog Millionaire took the world by storm and the final year for only five Best Picture nominees). But, these are the nominees that we…
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The 2019 Oscar nominations were announced this morning and, as usual, it didn’t go the way people thought. There were surprises, snubs, and a few that most predicted. Overall, the nominations are fine and almost exactly how I figured they would go, save for a few things. There were some nominations that I loved, some that I hated, and some that literally had me scratching my head. Here are those picks. …
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This Oscar season is absolutely insane. This is a wide open race and the toughest to predict in sometime (though it is reminiscent of 2015). I think the nominees are pretty set, save for a few surprises here and there, but who is going to win is a complete mystery. Maybe the nominations will tell us something, maybe they’ll make it more confusing. I’m expecting some crazy surprises, but for now, here are my 2019…
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The festivals are over, almost all the major releases have come out, and we are getting a clearer picture of what this year’s Oscar race might look like. We are right in the thick of the battle, but it is still a wide-open season, with no true frontrunners as of yet and a few films that could surprise still. Here are my current Oscar predictions. NOTE – I only focused on the major categories and…
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IT’S OSCAR SEASON!! We finally made it! We made it through the garbage of the winter, the mediocrity of the spring, and the chaos of summer, to get to my favorite time of the year. 2018 has been a solid year so far, but with the movies that are coming out this fall, 2019 is looking a whole lot better. This year’s Oscar race looks like a battle of former winners and nominees, including a…
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It’s Oscar night! The most prestigious night in Hollywood, when a who’s-who of famous people come together to be awarded for their work for the previous year. This year’s Oscar race is particularly interesting, as there is no clear-cut Best Picture frontrunner, and there are a few categories that could offer up some surprises. Here are my predictions for will win and my choices for who should win the 2018 Academy Awards. …
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Every year at the Oscars, there are specific nominees that I want to see win more than others. It’s nothing personal to the other nominees, it’s just that I either have some sort of emotional attachment to the film or the performance, or it would push a genre or the medium forward. Past examples include wanted Sylvester Stallone to win Best Supporting Actor for Creed, The Departed winning Best Picture, David Fincher winning Best Director for The Social Network, and…
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