Category: Oscar Preview

We had two films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Alice Through the Looking Glass When Tim Burton brought his vision of the classic Lewis Carroll novels to the big screen in 2010 with Alice in Wonderland, a new era was born. This era featured Disney almost annually resurrecting its legendary…

We had one film release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. The Nice Guys Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling star in this stylish period thriller about a hit man who teams up with a bumbling PI to help locating a missing woman. It’s also a comedy, giving both actors a rare vehicle…

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

We had two films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Dheepan Director Jacques Audiard’s 22-year career as a director has resulted in one Oscar nomination as Best Foreign Language Film. Could the same happen this year? It’s possible. In 2008, Audiard directed A Prophet, the story of a young Arab man…

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

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. The Jungle Book Disney’s animated features are among the most recognized and celebrated films in cinema history. After years of success, Disney seems to have stumbled on their latest opportunity to wrest money out of the control of the public. By…

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

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

We had no films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. April and the Extraordinary World What makes a film like April and the Extraordinary World so extraordinary? Apart from being one of few films still made with traditional hand-drawn animation? That it was picked up for distribution by GKids and that…

We had one film release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Midnight Special Although Jeff Nichols has been creating some inspiring films that critics have come out strongly in favor of, he has yet to be taken seriously by the Academy and that’s a problem. While Mud never built the kind of…

We had four films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Zootopia With an impressive string of features, Disney’s animation division has begun to eclipse Pixar in terms of quality, which is also leading it to more victories over that in-house production arm. Since it’s rebirth under the direction of John Lasseter,…

After taking a break for Oscar season, we’re back this week looking back at all of January and February. I’ll look at the first and second weeks of March next week. During these last two months, we had 10 films release with the potential (or at least pre-release potential) for Oscar nominations. Here they are…