Screen Actors Guild Nominations Announced; 12 YEARS A SLAVE Leads with 4...
The Screen Actors Guild nominations were announced this morning, and unsurprisingly, 12 Years a Slave led the pack with four nods including Best Ensemble, Best Actor (Chiwetel Ejiofor), Best...
View ArticleOscar Beat: Best Supporting Actor – Is Jared Leto on His Way to an Oscar Win?
As we continue our in-depth look at the coming awards season, it’s now time to delve in the Best Supporting Actor race. It’s a tough category this year, with a number of impressive turns from a...
View Article12 YEARS A SLAVE and AMERICAN HUSTLE Lead Critics Choice Award Nominations
The Broadcast Film Critics Association has unveiled its list of nominees for the upcoming Critics’ Choice Movie Awards, and 12 Years a Slave and American Hustle lead the pack with 13 nominations...
View ArticleOscar Beat: Best Picture – 12 YEARS A SLAVE, GRAVITY, and Everything In Between
We launched our awards column Oscar Beat earlier this fall, and over the past month or so we’ve been taking an in-depth look at some of the individual Oscar races: Best Actor, Best Actress, Best...
View Article2014 Producers Guild Award Nominees Include AMERICAN HUSTLE, DALLAS BUYERS...
The 2014 Producers Guild Awards list of nominees for movies, television and digital programming has been released. Like Adam sagely mentioned last year, this list of nominees is a fairly reliable...
View ArticleOscar Beat: Analyzing What the Producers Guild Awards Nominations Mean for Oscar
When it comes to predicting the Oscars, there are a number of factors to take into account. The early critics awards carry some weight, as does a film’s overall box office performance, but the most...
View Article2014 Writers Guild Nominations Include HER, DALLAS BUYERS CLUB, WOLF OF WALL...
The Oscar precursors are in full swing. Yesterday we got a look at the nominations for the Producers Guild Awards—a solid predictor for the Best Picture Oscar category—and today the Writers Guild of...
View ArticleOscar Beat: The Guilds Have Spoken, So Where Does This Leave Us for Oscar?
We’re very, very close to the nominations announcement for the 86th Academy Awards, and now that the various guilds—the Screen Actors Guild, the Producers Guild, the Writers Guild, and the Directors...
View Article3-Way Tie Leads to Seven Nominations from Cinematographers Society; Costume...
The major guilds have all chimed in with their nominees, and as Adam has pointed out in his Oscar Beat column, this gives us a clearer picture of who might be getting Oscar nominations when they're...
View ArticleAdam Predicts the 2014 Oscar Nominees
Well, folks, the time has finally come. I’ve been covering this year’s awards season since last fall when we launched our awards column Oscar Beat, and after running through the ups and downs of the...
View Article2014 Oscar Nominations Announced; AMERICAN HUSTLE and GRAVITY Lead with 10...
The nominations for the 86th Academy Awards have been announced. American Hustle and Gravity lead with 10 nominations each, while 12 Years a Slave isn't too far behind with 9 nominations. Looking...
View Article12 YEARS A SLAVE Takes Home Best Picture at Critics Choice Awards; GRAVITY,...
The Critics' Choice Movie Awards were announced tonight, and 12 Years a Slave took home Best Picture. The Critics' Choice Awards have lined up with the Oscars in six of the last seven Best Pictures,...
View ArticleNew to Blu-ray: DALLAS BUYERS CLUB, ABOUT TIME, ESCAPE PLAN, and More
This week’s new Blu-ray releases include a serious Oscar contender, an emotional father-son story, an 80s throwback, and more. Briefly: Dallas Buyers Club (Blu-ray + DVD + Digital HD with...
View ArticleJared Leto Talks DALLAS BUYERS CLUB, Preparing for the Role, Staying in...
After taking a six-year break from acting to tour the world as the frontman for the band 30 Seconds to Mars, Jared Leto returned with his latest role as Rayon, a transgender AIDS patient in Dallas...
View ArticleBest Picture Nominee Posters Recreated in LEGO Form
The LEGO Movie was massive hit with both audiences and critics when it opened last weekend, and deservingly so given that the film is an absolute joy to take in. I’ll be shocked if it doesn’t make...
View ArticleDALLAS BUYERS CLUB Blu-ray Review
Years from now, I suspect that critics will look back and declare the 2013-2014 film season as “The Year of the McConaughey.” After a decade of squandering his acting chops and Southern drawl in...
View ArticleAdam Predicts the Oscars Part 2: Best Cinematography, Costume Design,...
Continuing on with predictions for this Sunday’s Oscar ceremony, today we take a look at the rest of the technical categories and the shorts—aka where Oscar ballots are made or lost. I surmised that...
View ArticleAdam Predicts the Oscars Part 3: Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress,...
After running down predictions for the Oscars in a number of categories over the past two days, we’ve now come to the big ones. As I’ve said many times before over the course of this awards season,...
View Article12 YEARS A SLAVE Wins Big at Independent Spirit Awards with Best Film,...
On the eve of the 86th Academy Awards, the Independent Spirit Awards honored the very best in independent cinema, but the big winner at the Spirits and the Oscars could very well be one and the same....
View Article12 YEARS A SLAVE Wins Best Picture; GRAVITY Wins Seven Oscars Including Best...
For the first time in at least six year, we have a Best Picture winner that will stand the test of time. Cynics thought the Academy's highest honor would go to American Hustle, the numbers were...
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