Tag Archives: Oscars
Oscars 2020: Predicting the Nominees
In advance of Monday morning’s Oscar noms, click inside to check out my predictions!
Oscars 2019: My Final Predictions
Click to see my final ballot predictions for next Sunday’s Oscars.
My Predictions: Oscars 2019
What would Oscar nominations be without a few surprises?
Crossing my fingers for Ethan Hawke, Crazy Rich Asians, and the Roma women!
MOONLIGHT
Forget Rogue One and the latest Marvel face-off: The last scene of Moonlight rivals both for intensity and suspense. Without giving everything away, we watch two men circling each other, nothing exchanged but conversation and a cup of tea. Plenty of things feel unspoken. They haven’t seen each other in years; each became someone the other didn’t expect. And we can’t […]
Oscars Week: My Ballot for Oscars 2017
Here’s my final ballot for this Sunday’s Academy Awards. I predict La La Land will clean up with 9 wins, meaning this will be the most boring Oscars since Gravity swept the tech awards. Still, only one acting category is a sure thing (here’s looking at you, Ms. Davis!), so I’m ready for a good surprise or two. […]
Oscars Week: Shoulda, Coulda, Woulda
It’s always instructive who merits an Oscar campaign and who doesn’t. The three ladies of Hidden Figures would have had better odds if their highly successful movie had premiered earlier in the season. As it played out, there was only one vulnerable slot in Supporting Actress, and Octavia Spencer snuck in. Similarly, with so much talent in Moonlight, […]
Best Picture Revisited: From Here to Eternity (1953)
The Best Picture winner of 1953, From Here to Eternity, could have been a major failure. Burt Lancaster and Frank Sinatra were not known for dramas. Director Fred Zinnemann had to consolidate an 800-plus-page novel into two hours, and there were many unsavory topics in James Jones’s book to work around: adultery, STDs, homosexuality. The […]
OSCARS WEEK: My Final Predictions
We have some real races this year! I’m waffling on a few categories, but this is my final ballot. 1. Best Picture Will win: Many are predicting Birdman to best Boyhood. The Boyhood momentum has dwindled, but with its recent BAFTA win, there’s still love out there. Let’s go with Boyhood! Should win: Today, I’ll say Birdman. Tomorrow, I might say Selma. 2. Director […]
BEST PICTURE REVISITED: “OLIVER!” (1968)
1968 was a turning point for the movie musical. Voters had given Best Picture to three musicals so far in the sixties: West Side Story, My Fair Lady, and The Sound of Music. But then the Academy speciously nominated Doctor Doolittle, the Rex Harrison tuner that nearly bankrupted 20th Century Fox and, rumor has it, was up for Best Picture […]
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