Tomorrow marks the last day for the 6,000 or so members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to hand in their nomination ballots. For this Oscar prognosticator, it brings forth the annual daydream of having his own ballot. After a year-end blitz of screenings and screeners that suggests a consensus of what deserves to get nominated, it's always disappointing to see that this rarely ends up being the actual case (see these current predictions compared to the rest of this article).
BING NEWS:
- 'An unmistakable stab at the USSR': Could Amadeus be the most misunderstood Oscar winner ever?
Released 40 years ago this month, Miloš Forman's best picture-winning Amadeus is often accused of historical inaccuracies – but the film's critics could be missing the point.
09/27/2024 - 11:37 pm | View Link - Revisiting Francis Ford Coppola's Oscar races in honor of ‘Megalopolis'
After building his credits as a screenwriter and director in the 1960s, Coppola's breakthroughs arrived in the early 1970s with "Patton" and "The Godfather." He wrote the screenpl ...
09/27/2024 - 9:00 am | View Link - Hugh Jackman Could Win Oscar for Deadpool and Wolverine
Hugh Jackman, who plays razor-clawed mutant Wolverine, is going in for the best supporting actor categories in all the major upcoming awards shows, which includes Critics Choice, Screen Actors Guild ...
09/27/2024 - 8:34 am | View Link - Kate Winslet Lost the Oscar Five Times but Ignored Any Pressure to Finally Win: ‘It’s Not a Weight on the Shoulders at All’
During an interview on the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast, host Josh Horowitz asked if Winslet ever felt pressure to win the Oscar after missing out for so long. As Winslet said: “Nominated a few times, ...
09/27/2024 - 3:20 am | View Link - The Oscar Best Picture Race: Deadline’s Critics Compare Notes On The Season So Far
Synopsis: Anora, a sex worker from Brooklyn, meets and promptly marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, the parents set out for New York to get the marriage annulled.
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