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Review: 2021 OSCAR NOMINATED SHORT FILMS - ANIMATED, Dazzling Array of Ideas, Emotions, Characters
Eight films are featured in the program, including all five nominated for Academy Award, Best Animated Short.
Oscars 2020 Review: THE PAINTED BIRD, A Child's Adventures in Abominationland
A WWII coming-of-age not for the faint of heart is the Czech Repulic´s bid for Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards.
Destroy All Monsters: Look to the Movie Stars
It wasn't a particularly political Oscars after all. Hollywood mostly went about the business of giving and receiving Oscars, and the most political moments in the show - the first Muslim-American actor winning; the proxy Best Foreign Language speech thanks...
AnarchyVision: Oscars 2017 Edition
Certainly a night to remember! Plenty of craziness right until that unforgetable end. Here's my mid-event look at a few of the winners, and a quick reaction to the Best Picture mixup and how both La La Land and Moonlight...
Why Aren't Writers Thanked at the Oscars?
Ah, the Academy Awards. A time when the Hollywood elite come together to celebrate the best artists in show business, and each of the night's winners get the opportunity to climb the stage and thank all the people who've helped...
Destroy All Monsters: Meanwhile, In Asian America
It was an odd weekend at the movies, and perhaps telling in that none of the oddness took place in a traditional movie theatre, unless the Kodak Theatre counts, which I don't think it does. While Chris Rock and Sacha...
Destroy All Monsters: Us, Them, And The Oscars
Hollywood's annual pageant of nice dresses and the complex madness of John Travolta went off pretty much as expected - a few less for American Sniper than perhaps I cynically expected, and a few more for Birdman, which ain't Boyhood,...
Destroy All Monsters: Good Enough For The Golden Globes
The Golden Globes are the silliest and most trivial of the trivial Hollywood accolades, a fact widely known among film fans and hopelessly lost to the masses beyond, the same masses who awarded Taken 3 a heaping $40M this past...
Get Way Behind The Scenes Of Toa Fraser's Maori Language Action Film THE DEAD LANDS
New Zealand's official submission to the Best Foreign Language Film race at the Oscars, Toa Fraser's Maori language action film The Dead Lands is freshly on screens in New Zealand and the release comes with something of a treat for...
Destroy All Monsters: Pageantry's Responsibility To Morality At The Oscars
There are no two forces more fundamentally incompatible than lightweight moral outrage and Hollywood. In a way, we're already very well aware of this, eager to jump on Jared Leto for daring to besmirch his lion-tressed, doe-eyed acceptance speech with...
AnarchyVision: Jason Gorber Talks OSCARS 2014!
Lots of Oscar talk for 2014, with several live hits recording during the ceremony, including my predictions about eventual winners (not too shabby) and a summation of the night's entertainment.2013 was a hell of a year, and as I say...
Oscars 2014: List Of Winners, Including 12 YEARS A SLAVE And GRAVITY
Another year, another Academy Awards, and this time there were almost no surprises regarding the winners. As expected, Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave won the biggest prize of the night, Best Picture, but overall it was Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity...
ScreenAnarchy Picks the 2014 Oscars
Love them -- for honoring the ostensible best-made movies -- or hate them -- for reducing an art form to an insufferably smug horse race -- the Academy Awards can inspire and provoke discussion about movies like nothing else. And...
Oscars 2014: The Complete List Of Nominees, With AMERICAN HUSTLE And GRAVITY Leading
The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences announced this morning the nominees for the upcoming 86th Academy Awards. David O. Russell's American Hustle and Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity top the nominations, with ten each, while Steve McQueen's 12 Years A...
Sitges Designated An Oscar Qualifier For Short Films
Big news from the Sitges Film Festival and genre oriented film makers with aspirations for their short films with word that Sitges has now been designated an official qualifier for the American Academy Awards. This means that the winners of...
Euro Beat: Get To Know The European Oscar Contenders
Yesterday was the deadline for each country around the world to choose a film to submit for Oscar consideration. While only a few of them will make the cut come January 16 when the final nominations are announced, this moment...
Cannes 2013: Weinsteins Trot Out Lineup, Slightly Less Exciting Than Last Year
Harvey Weinstein said it himself at this year's Weinstein Company Cannes showcase, "2012 was a year as good as any year we had at Miramax." The three films highlighted at last year's event (Django Unchained, Silver Linings Playbook, and...
Review: THE GATEKEEPERS
It came as no surprise in retrospect that The Gatekeepers is a film celebrated by Errol Morris. Having missed the film when it played TIFF last September, I had assumed, incorrectly, that it'd be a dry piece, merely talking...
Oscar Rundown, Part III: SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK, AMOUR, and LIFE OF PI
In this final stretch of examining the nine Academy Award nominees for Best Picture (don't miss parts one and two), the focus switches from the large, patriotically minded spectacles to more personal endeavors. Typically, such efforts tend to be...
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AMOUR Wins Nearly Every Major Award at French Version of Oscars, The Césars
On the eve of the Academy Awards, Michael Haneke's meditation on death, Amour, swept the César Awards in France, taking home best film, best director, best actor and actress and best original screenplay. That means that the film with the...
