Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another is the most recent Best Picture winner at the Academy Awards! One Battle After Another won six Oscars in total, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor for Sean Penn, Best Editing, and Best Casting, the first-ever winner in the category. Ryan Coogler’s Sinners also had a strong evening, winning four awards, including Best Actor for Michael B. Jordan, Best Original Screenplay for Coogler, and…

The final entry of the “Best of the 2016 Oscar Nominees” series concludes with the best performances from this year’s Best Actor nominees.  Let’s have a look.     BRYAN CRANSTON (Nominated for Trumbo) BEST PERFORMANCE – TRUMBO (2015) Cranston is a television icon for his performance as Walter White in Breaking Bad.  However, this isn’t a list for television, it’s for movies, so that didn’t qualify.  Cranston has had some good supporting performances in some really…

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…

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…