Category: Academy Awards

Not a lot of unexpected choices from Atlanta, with several prominent contenders making showings. What’s interesting is that Favourite won Picture, but Roma won Director. This seems to be a trend of recent years not too dissimilar from the Academy where Picture and Director split, something almost unthinkable through the 1980s and 1990s and even…

While some of the top nominees this year come as no surprise right now (The Favourite and A Star Is Born for example), the critics can still surprise. Tying The Favourite for most nominations, with ten each, is Black Panther. The film wasn’t expected to perform this well during precursor season, so this could very…

Topping all others, Incredibles 2 picked up 11 nominations. The reason it didn’t tie with second place Ralph Breaks the Internet was a double nomination in Storyboarding. The major players for this year’s Oscar race were all included in Best Animated Feature with Early Man being the most likely to miss the final Oscar slate…

Roma is taking an early lead in the race for Best Picture, with its second award. If Beale Street Could Talk and A Star Is Born also performed well while other films like Green Book didn’t do as hot with a single award. Award Tallies (4) Roma (2) If Beale Street Could Talk, Isle of…

Yorgos Lanthimos’ period comedy is shaping up to be the year’s Favourite film with the mentions here combined with the massive support it has received across the early nominations voting. Everything here is largely following a pattern that is developing, though is taking time to fully materialize, but the same films are racking up a…

By virtue of being one of the early nomination sets out their, the Detroit Critics have made themselves a beacon for others to look to for inspiration, but are their selections that inspirational? Somewhat yes. Somewhat no. Apart from elevating a film like If Beale Street Could Talk, they didn’t give much boost to films…

Roma, which had until now seemed to be an also-ran for Best Picture leaps back into the forefront of consideration with its award from the New York Film Critics Circle. Alfonso Cuaron black-and-white feature picked up three awards, including a rare Picture-Director victory suggesting support for the film was strong. Ethan Hawke gets a jolt…