A great homage to the 70s crime films, A Most Violent Year doesn't need flash to be an intense thriller There’s a scene about a third of the way through A Most Violent Year that outlines exactly what the movie is about. After striking a deer on their way home from a dinner, Abel (Oscar Isaac) gets out…
This year, as usual, the Oscar nominations brought us some of the biggest snubs, surprises, and shockers of any award show. Although we saw Birdman and The Grand Budapest Hotel lead as expected, films like Gone Girl and Selma were nearly shut out. In the first episode of the Smash Cut Awards Clash podcast. Editor-in-Chief…
The Oscar nominations were announced in their entirety in Hollywood this morning. Birdman and The Grand Budapest Hotel led with 9 nominations each. Check out the nominee below: BEST PICTURE "American Sniper" "Birdman" "Boyhood" "The Grand Budapest Hotel" "The Imitation Game" "Selma" "The Theory of Everything" "Whiplash" BEST DIRECTOR Wes Anderson, "The Grand Budapest Hotel" Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, "Birdman"…
Every year since 2009 when Monique won for Precious, the winner of the race for Best Supporting Actress has pretty much swept every single award along the way and struck a hatred for her into our hearts. Don't believe me? Look at Anne (with an E) Hathaway and Melissa "Take out my own FYC ad"…
A few things happened this year to make Best Original Score, my usual favorite category, the thorn in my side. First, the academy disqualified the scores of Birdman and Whiplash because the former wasn't prewritten for the film and the latter because there wasn't "enough" score. That already angered me enough, but when they egregiously snubbed Gone Girl, I was furious.…
With the expansion of the Best Picture category to ten nominees/whatever they're doing with this sliding scale, Best Visual Effects has become one of the easier categories to predict at the Oscars. The winner tends to be whichever nominee is also nominated in Best Picture. Take Gravity, Hugo, Life of Pi, and Inception as examples from recent years. However,…
The Oscar for Best Original Song is one of the few categories that doesn't have a lot of patterns or indicators as to who will win. The only major precursor is the Golden Globe, however since the year 2000, the two kudos have matched up a whopping 4 times. Even last year when "Let It…
The 72nd Annual Golden Globe Awards are taking place tonight at the Beverly Hilton Ballroom in Hollywood. The kudos, voted upon by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), award both film and television. I will be updating this page with the winners, my reactions, and what they mean for the Oscars. Check out our predictions for…
There are two factors that go into the winners of the Golden Globes for Television: (1) buzz (2) how new the show is. The Globes like to be ahead of the curve and tend to award untested first time series. However, somehow they seemed to have gotten right this time. With shows like The Affair, Jane…
The Golden Globes are a finicky award show. Sometimes they predict the Oscar winners, sometimes they go with the buzz, and sometimes they go with the film that paid them the most (*cough*The Tourist*cough*). However, this year they seem to have strongly leaned toward the legitimate Oscar contenders. Even in the odd Musical or Comedy…
