Best Performances by the 2018 Oscar Best Actor Nominees

Best Performances by the 2018 Oscar Best Actor Nominees

The 2018 Best Actor nominees are loaded once again.  We have a couple of newcomers with three heavyweights.  It’s an interesting mix, even though the winner is all but sealed up.  However, we aren’t here for predictions, we’re here for the performances and look at the nominees best performances.  Here are my picks for the best performances from the 2018 Oscar Best Actor nominees.         TIMOTHEE CHALAMET (Nominated for Call Me by Your…

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Best Performances from the 2018 Oscar Best Actress Nominees

Best Performances from the 2018 Oscar Best Actress Nominees

Best Actress has been incredibly strong the last few years and this year is no different.  What’s great about the actresses this year is that they have all been putting sensational work for decades and now, for some of them, they are finally getting their due.  Here are my choices for the best performances from this year’s Best Actress Oscar nominees.         SALLY HAWKINS (Nominated for The Shape of Water) BEST PERFORMANCE – THE SHAPE…

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Best Performances from the 2018 Oscar Best Supporting Actress Nominees

Best Performances from the 2018 Oscar Best Supporting Actress Nominees

This year’s Best Supporting Actress nominees is the most unique and diverse I have ever seen.  We got two actresses who made their name on T.V., an R&B star, a character actor, and an actress who seems to be nominated every year now.  It’s a great group and they all have given great performances at some point in their careers.  Here are my choices for the best performances from this year’s Best Supporting Actress nominees….

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Best Performances from the 2018 Oscar Best Supporting Actor Nominees

Best Performances from the 2018 Oscar Best Supporting Actor Nominees

Best Supporting Actor is always my favorite category at the Oscars.  It is the category that is always loaded with great performances and is the category that allows under-appreciated veterans and up-and-coming character actors to get their due.  This year is a list of named veterans who have made their ways around the block or two.  They have all given a number of great performances throughout their careers, but what are there best?  Here are…

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Ranking All the 2018 Oscar Best Picture Nominees

Ranking All the 2018 Oscar Best Picture Nominees

It’s Oscar week!  The 90th Academy Awards air in one week and this is one of the most exciting years ever.  A number of categories are still up in the air, including the big one, Best Picture, and rightly so.  Of the nine nominees, I would be totally content with my top six winning.  Here is my ranking of this year’s Best Picture nominees.       9 – LADY BIRD (Great Gerwig) The fact that this…

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2018 Golden Globes Predictions

2018 Golden Globes Predictions

The Golden Globes are a very weird awards show.  It can be argued that they focus and reward more on stars and on names than the actual movies and performances nominated.  They do give us a slight idea of where the Oscars may lean, which is going to be huge this year, as the Oscar race is wide open in all categories.  So with that, here are my predictions for the 2018 Golden Globes.  I…

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Top 5 – Most Anticipated Movies of the 53rd Chicago International Film Festival

Top 5 – Most Anticipated Movies of the 53rd Chicago International Film Festival

At this year’s Chicago International Film Festival, I have 36 movies picked out to see during the festival, with the possibility of a few more late additions as the festival goes on.  This is easily the most movies I have seen during this festival and movies consist of foreign films, Oscar contenders, indies, and horror films.  With the diversity in genre and the amount of movies I will be seeing (plus working and seeing regular…

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2018 Oscar Predictions – POST NOMINATIONS

2018 Oscar Predictions – POST NOMINATIONS

SAG and PGA have cleared some things up, but it’s still an incredibly open race, though a few have broken ahead of the field. Here are my updated Oscar picks as nomination looms upon us.     I’m only going to be predicting the major categories and skip all the techs.       BEST PICTURE 1 – THE SHAPE OF WATER (Guillermo Del Toro) Most nominated film.  Won PGA.  Is beloved in all branches. …

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Oscar 2017 – Who Should and Will Win at the 2017 Academy Awards

Oscar 2017 – Who Should and Will Win at the 2017 Academy Awards

Tonight is the big night!  Here are my predictions of who I think will win tonight and also my choices of who should win at the 2017 Academy Awards.   I apologize for all my wrong predictions     BEST PICTURE La La Land has won it all.  It won the PGA, DGA, the Golden Globe, the BAFTA, and was nominated a record-tying fourteen times.  Can anything stop it?  With preferential voting, it’s definitely possible…

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Oscar 2017 – The ‘Other’ Oscar

Oscar 2017 – The ‘Other’ Oscar

Every year during the Academy Award nominations, films and performances get snubbed.  It happens every year and we have to suffer for it.  So, to honor those films and performances that did not get nominated this year, these are what I call The ‘Other’ Oscars.  This is a personal list of movies and performances that I feel should have gotten nominated, not a list of movies and performances that almost got nominated, because I don’t…

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