Category: Oscar Preview

We had three films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Creed 39 years ago, an upstart boxing drama became the year’s Best Picture winner. Rocky spawned a series of successful sequels and became one of those Oscar winners that you either love or are indifferent to. Now, we have a semi-reboot…

We had two films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Carol With directors like Paul Thomas Anderson and Todd Haynes, you have to wait many years between releases, but you’re seldom disappointed as a result. Haynes’ Carol, which showed first at Cannes earlier this year and won Rooney Mara the award…

We had three films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Secret in Their Eyes In 2009, Juan Jose Campanella delivered one of the year’s most acclaimed foreign features about a retired detective writing a novel based on the events of years earlier wherein an unsolved case, an unrequited love and a…

We had five films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. The Peanuts Movie The comic strip Peanuts ran for 50 years, ending its run in 2000 with the death of creator Charles Schulz. He left behind a strong legacy of humorous, family-friendly comics that told the story of a young group…

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. Suffragette As women struggled for the right to vote in England, they were met with violence and repudiation before taking up arms against their oppressors. Suffragette is a picture that demands attention for the light it brings to a dark time…

We had five films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Bridge of Spies Steven Spielberg is one of the most consistent directors in Hollywood. In the last two decades, nearly every movie he’s directed has gotten some kind of nomination from the Academy, even his worst reviewed films. Now he’s on…

We had two films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Pan There was a time when Joe Wright could be counted on for Oscar nominations. In 2007, his debut feature, Pride & Prejudice, brought Keira Knightley an Oscar nomination for Best Actress and the film received three other nominations for score,…

We had three films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. The Martian The last time Ridley Scott was a serious contender for a Best Picture nomination was 2000 for Gladiator and he got it. Since then, he’s been delivering countless films that critics have been less than enthused with or have…

We had two films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Hotel Transylvania 2 Three years ago, Adam Sandler moved into the animation realm with a story about a vampire who runs a hotel for wayward monsters to keep them safe from a world hell-bent on their destruction. It opened to a…

We had three films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Black Mass The story of mobster Whitey Bolger whose nefarious deeds were supported by secret deals with the FBI forms the backbone of Scott Cooper’s third directorial outing: Black Mass. Cooper’s debut feature, Crazy Heart was nominated for three Oscars, winning…

We had one film release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Time Out of Mind In 2009, Oren Moverman’s debut feature, The Messenger came out of almost nowhere to earn two Oscar nominations, one for Moverman and co-writer Alessandro Camon and one for Woody Harrelson as Best Supporting Actor. The masterful film…

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.