Category: Oscar Preview

We had one film release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. La La Land Musicals once dominated the Oscars like few genres could. In the 1960s, musicals were more popular than any other genre, both at the box office and in terms of Oscar’s glory. My Fair Lady, The Sound of Music,…

We had five films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Allied Robert Zemeckis was once a huge name in the realm of cinema. Apart from his Back to the Future films, Zemeckis also brought us 80s classics like Romancing the Stone and Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Best Picture Oscar winner Forrest…

We had five films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Bleed for This The Academy has a long and varied history with boxing dramas. Of all sports-oriented features, boxing has been recognized far more frequently than any other. Perhaps it’s the underdog drama that permeates boxing history. Perhaps it’s the creativity…

We had three films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Arrival For many years, science fiction was the forgotten child at the Oscars. That genre, along with horror, have a history of being ignored, even when some of the greatest films of the genre were released, such as 2001: A Space…

We had four films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Doctor Strange Now that the Iron Man curse has been lifted from the Marvel Cinematic Universe (Captain America: The Winter Soldier became the first film in the MCU that didn’t feature Robert Downey Jr.’s Iron Man to get an Oscar nomination),…

We had no films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations.

We had one film release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Moonlight Gay cinema has been building tremendously in the last decade, generating some of cinemas most enduring films. From Brokeback Mountain to Carol, the genre has been blessed with so many quality stories that it seems strange that one some still…

We had one film release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Certain Women In a short, but illustrious career, director Kelly Reichardt has done incredibly well with critics. Wither her new film Certain Women, she has her most successful film to date. Starring Kristen Stewart and Oscar nominees Michelle Williams and Laura…

We had one film release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Birth of a Nation Sundance is often the early launching point for Oscar contenders who want to dig into the specialty box office and build buzz ahead of the Oscars. This year, they did just that. After a pre-screening standing ovation…

We had two films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Deepwater Horizon For “disaster” films, recent efforts have proven that the Oscars aren’t that concerned with recognizing them. Deepwater Horizon is the kind of film, though, that has a touch of prestige to it, which might allow it to skirt the…

We had four films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. The Magnificent Seven In 1954, Akira Kurosawa released one of the seminal films of his career, a film that has been copied, aped, and imitated for more than 60 years. It received two Oscar nominations, for Best Art Direction and Best…

We had one film release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Snowden There was a time when controversial filmmaker Oliver Stone was an Oscar mainstay. Today, he’s seen more as a fringe filmmaker who’s lost his way than as a serious Oscar threat. For the first time in years, he has a…