Oh the Razzies. This is probably my favorite award show ever. Every year, the Golden Raspberry Awards honor the worst of the worst in film. Legendary films like Howard the Duke (1986), Showgirls (1995), Freddy Got Fingered (2001), and Jack & Jill (2011) have all won the coveted Razzie for Worst Movie of the Year. So let’s take a look at this year’s nominations and I will take a guess as to who is going…
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2015 was a great year for actresses, and the nominees are a great mixture of newcomers and veterans. Let’s have a look at the best performances from this year’s Best Actress Oscar nominees. CATE BLANCHETT (Nominated for Carol) BEST PERFORMANCE – I’M NOT THERE (2007) It could be argued that Cate Blanchett is the best actress working today. Every performance she does is great. No role is a stretch for Ms. Blanchett, making her…
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Continuing a look at the best performances and movies from this year’s Oscar nominees, here are the best performances from this year’s Best Supporting Actor nominees. CHRISTIAN BALE (Nominated for The Big Short) BEST PERFORMANCE – THE FIGHTER (2010) Christian Bale is one of the best actors working today. His chameleon-like style to lose himself in every role, both physically and emotionally, along with coming out with a movie almost every year, makes him…
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Continuing our look at the best films from this year’s Oscar nominees, here are the best performances from this year’s Best Supporting Actress nominees. JENNIFER JASON LEIGH (Nominated for The Hateful Eight) BEST PERFORMANCE – THE HATEFUL EIGHT (2015) I am not really knowledgable with Jennifer Jason Leigh’s filmography. I remember her in Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), The Machinist (2004), and her spectacular voice work in 2015’s Anomalisa, among some others. But her role…
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Continuing with Oscar week, I am going to look at the best movies or performances from this year’s nominees. First, I am going to look at this year’s Best Director nominees. LENNY ABRAHAMSON (Nominated for Room) BEST MOVIE – ROOM (2015) I didn’t see Abrahamson’s feature debut What Richard Did (2012), but I did see his second, Frank (2014), which I thought was a surreal, yet fascinating musical indie. With Room, Abrahamson elevates himself to…
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The Academy can’t nominate every movie, it’s impossible. There are always snubs and always a debate about which movie should have gotten in and which one shouldn’t be there. For the eight nominees for Best Picture, there are eight other movies that could have been there instead. So that’s what I’m going to do here. I am going to nominate movies and performances in the major categories that I felt deserved a spot in their…
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I was very pleased with this year’s nominations for Best Picture. There were obviously some movies I would have preferred to get in, but all the movies nominated, I am okay with. There is no movie that makes me angry or upset like some years, *coughExtremelyLoudandIncrediblyClosecough*. Here is how I would rank this year’s Best Picture nominees, from least favorite to best. 8 – Brooklyn As I said at the beginning, I like all the…
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Tonight’s the big night! Check out my final Oscar predictions of who should and will win the big prize tonight. I apologize for all my wrong predictions. BEST PICTURE Stats say The Big Short, hype says The Revenant. Definitely room for an upset, but it’s between those two. WILL WIN – THE REVENANT SHOULD WIN – SPOTLIGHT BEST DIRECTOR After the DGA, Inarritu is set up for history. George Miller could surprise for his…
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Because of going to Sundance and being busy, I haven’t posted much about the Oscars. In fact, I didn’t even do a nomination reactions piece or anything. It was just an area that got lost in shuffle of everything else. I was pretty good on my final predictions. I missed a couple nominees here and there, but overall, I thought I did good. No real surprises in the nominations and not a lot of huge…
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The Academy will announce their nominations early on Thursday. The Golden Globes and the recent nominations from the Producers Guild and Directors Guild has slightly cleared up the extremely foggy Oscar race that we have in front of us. Here are my final predictions for the 2016 Oscar nominations. I’m still only going to pick the same nine categories that I have been and skip over the techs for now. You can watch all the…
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