Best Supporting Actor is looking like it's going to go to Mahershala Ali for Moonlight. However, there is certainly room for an upset. While it took a while for the race for Best Supporting Actor to take shape, a clear frontrunner has emerged in Mahershala Ali (Moonlight). His towering performance was a favorite among the early critic awards…
While Lupita Nyong'o and Jennifer Lawrence are the frontrunners for Best Supporting Actress, June Squibb is a potential spoiler. Like the rest of the categories this year, Best Supporting Actress is incredibly competitive. You can make an argument for all 5 of the acting nominees. Yes, even Sally Hawkins. In the…
Sundance hit Birth of a Nation and Cannes breakout Loving are Early Oscar Frontrunners The Cannes Film Festival is just ending and for people not cool enough to attend, but are too geeky to not keep track of what the buzz coming out of there is (me) it also marks the real beginning of Oscar season. Out of…
While it’s too early to be making concrete predictions, we can certainly start to conjecture who the contenders are for the 2017 Oscars. Best Actress is looking to be one of the most competitive acting categories this year. Right now, at the top of the list, we have two-time nominee Viola Davis (Fences) who should…
One of the bigger shocks so far in the Emmy season was HBO's True Detective's choice to submit in the drama categories rather than the mini-series categories. The series, which is an anthology series like American Horror Story, would have guaranteed itself wins in Best Miniseries/TV Movie Actor and Directing for a Miniseries/TV Movie. Now, not a…
Anyone watching the episode submissions for Lead Actor in a Drama Series it's easy to see who the clear winner is here. If voters didn't pay attention to anything but performance, Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad) would be a slam dunk for the episode "Ozymandias." However, voters don't have blinders on when they vote. There is…
With some of the most beautiful animations committed to film, Kubo and the Two Strings is a movie that prides itself on story and delivers on its promise “If you blink, do it now.” Some movies just remind you how much you love movies. These are the movies that transport you to a different world, dazzle you…
Chiwetel Ejiofor guides "12 Years a Slave" with a strong, adroit performance. The first time I went to watch 12 Years a Slave it was at the height of its acclaim, buzz, and frontrunner status for the Oscars. There were so many expectations for the film and that may have clouded my original…
While Barkhad Abdi and Michael Fassbender are potential spoilers, Jared Leto is pretty far ahead in the race. Best Supporting Actor is one of the major categories that I would consider a lock. Jared Leto's transformative role in Dallas Buyers Club is emotional, funny, flashy, and heartbreaking. It's almost a tailor made…
The Oscars are this Sunday, which means it's time to give you our FINAL 2016 Oscar Predictions. This means that from this point forward I are sticking with out picks and not changing at all. Now, while I try to use the most analytic process to choose who I think will win, sometimes you just have to…
