Fifteen Films That You Should Put on Your Oscar Radar
SEPTEMBER 14, 2017 Welcome to the 3rd Annual “Movies to Put on Your Oscar Radar” column. Now that many of the big film festivals (Sundance, Cannes, Telluride and Venice)…
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The Oscar Race at the Half — Do Any Films Released From January Through June Have a Chance?
JULY 27, 2016 If you can believe it, next year’s Oscar race is more than half over. There’s an old maxim among Oscar prognosticators that voters have a short…
Asghar Farhadi’s “The Salesman” is the Year’s First Great Film
FEBRUARY 28, 2017 It’s only the end of February, and we’ve got our first great film of 2017. If you watched that chaotic Academy Awards on Sunday night, there…
My Guaranteed Office-Pool-Winning, Don’t-Sue-Me-If-I’m-Wrong Oscar Predictions
FEBRUARY 23, 2017 Photo: ABC This is the column I have most dreaded to write all year and the one I’ll most regret re-reading on Monday morning. Exact Change Today…
Shockers Abound in This Morning’s Academy Award Nominations, While “La La Land” Ties an Oscar Record
JANUARY 24, 2017 Well, you can retire the hashtag #oscarssowhite, at least for this year. Nominations for the 89th Annual Academy Awards were revealed on Tuesday morning, and the…
My Sure Thing (But Don’t Put Any Money On Them) Oscar Nomination Predictions
JANUARY 19, 2017 With the Trump Show rolling into D.C. this weekend, the blogs will soon be clogging the internet with their takes on the Big Carnival. What they…
10 Movies That Should Be on Your Oscar Radar
OCTOBER 26, 2016 What, Oscars again? Yes! Because the 2017 Oscar race doesn’t start until I say it has started. And, ladies and gentlemen, it has started. Big time.…
The 88th Annual Academy Awards — Outrage, Upsets and Girl Scout Cookies
FEBRUARY 29, 2016 Photo: Los Angeles Times Well, the Oscar season has finally come to an end with a provocative and upset-filled ceremony on Sunday evening from Hollywood’s Dolby…
My Guaranteed Office-Pool-Winning, Don’t-Sue-Me-If-I’m-Wrong Oscar Predictions
FEBRUARY 25, 2016 This is the column I have most dreaded to write all year and the one I’ll most regret re-reading on Monday morning. Since we began Exact…
Will Smith’s “Concussion” and the Politics of the #OscarsSoWhite Boycott
JANUARY 21, 2016 Her name is Dianne Houston, and she is a film director. In 1996, she received an Academy Award nomination for her short film “Tuesday Morning Ride.” …
