2025 Oscars: Do the Gothams Move the Needle in Any Way?
Anora Leads Gotham Awards with Four
Best Actor Watch: Daniel Craig Smolders in New Trailer for Queer
Best Actor Watch: Timothee Chalamet as Bob Dylan in Music Video
Gotham Nominations Announced Tomorrow, here is a Preview
2025 Oscar Predictions: Is It Finally Ralph Fiennes’ Year?
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2025 Oscars: Do the Gothams Move the Needle in Any Way?
The Gothams were announced this morning and I'd say there were a few surprises. The biggest one to me is the complete and total shut out of Netflix's Emilia Perez. I'm not sure why. But it wasn't in International Feature or Breakthrough Performance or anything. That was a shock. What to make of it? Nothing, really. These awards are decided by a tiny handful of...
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Anora Leads Gotham Awards with Four
Best Feature Anora Sean Baker, director; Sean Baker, Alex Coco, Samantha Quan, producers (NEON) Babygirl Halina Reijn, director; David Hinojosa, Julia Oh, Halina Reijn, producers (A24) Challengers Luca Guadagnino, director; Luca Guadagnino, Rachel O'Connor, Amy Pascal, Zendaya, producers (Amazon MGM Studios) A Different Man Aaron Schimberg, director; Gabriel Mayers, Vanessa McDonnell, Christine Vachon, producers (A24) Nickel Boys RaMell Ross, director; Joslyn Barnes, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, David Levine, producers (Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM Studios) Best International Feature All We Imagine...
Best Actor Watch: Daniel Craig Smolders in New Trailer for Queer
Luca Guadagnino's Queer finally offers up a trailer. There are so many great shots in this. I tried to capture some of them but they flew by so fast. It has to be among the best looking films of the year, without a doubt. Here is the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eknj5_0tF2s
Best Actor Watch: Timothee Chalamet as Bob Dylan in Music Video
The new trailer for A Complete Unknown just dropped. It's a send up of the brilliant little movie Dylan once filmed for Subterranean Homesick Blues. It's not bad but it does strike me that it isn't quite right to see this in 2024, given that the Left is not the counterculture anymore. Dylan grated against the status quo. Timothee Chalamet doesn't quite. And I don't think people today really understand how dramatically things have shifted. But it is a...
Gotham Nominations Announced Tomorrow, here is a Preview
Ordinarily I would not post a preview for the Gothams, not lately. Why? Because I am still holding a grudge, pathetic though that may be, for their irritating "gender inclusive" acting award categories. They make no sense whatsoever. They are 100% self-serving, pandering, virtue-signaling nonsense wherein they produce one winner out of a list. It's just so dystopian and soul-crushing. However, since the season is essentially dead, why not? New York, NY (October 28, 2024) – The Gotham Film...
NextGen Oscarwatcher – Best Picture Temperature Check, Part One
As we enter the final two months of the year, on the cusp of an unprecedented election, it feels just right for me to finally analyze the Best Picture race (and category) in its own article after doing so for each of the above-the-line categories. Compared to September, when festivals were occurring and films were premiering or screening for critics and/or audiences, it seems a consensus has formed. Some questions have been answered, but some remain, and others form....
2025 Oscar Predictions: Is It Finally Ralph Fiennes’ Year?
Edward Berger's Conclave opens in select theaters today. One of the best performances this year has to be Ralph Fiennes in a Bravura performance in Conclave. Fiennes has had a long, fruitful career yet has never really come close to winning an Oscar. But this might finally be his year. Before we look back at the career of Ralph Fiennes, let's quickly look at the competition. Over at The Contending, the prize seems to be mostly divided between two...
Angelina Jolie Shines in New Trailer for Maria
Netflix has dropped the first full trailer for Maria: Directed by Pablo Larraín and starring Academy Award®-winner Angelina Jolie as Maria Callas, MARIA reimagines the legendary diva in her final days as she reckons with her identity and life. MARIA, in select theaters November and on Netflix December 11 in the US. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7_ze9palm0 And some stills from the film courtesy of Netflix:
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Emmy-Nominated Writers Sam Means and Meredith Scardino on ‘Home Alone’ Doorknobs and the Puppet We Never Met in the ‘Girls5eva’ Episode ‘Orlando’
Awards Daily talks to Girls5eva writer Sam Means and writer/showrunner Meredith Scardino about their Emmy-nominated episode "Orlando." Girls5eva writers Sam...
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Conclave
Emilia Perez
The Brutalist
Dune 2
A Real Pain
Sing Sing
Gladiator II
Nickel Boys
September 5
Saturday Night
The Substance
Hard Truths
All We Imagine as Light
The Piano Lesson
Inside Out 2
Best Actor Adrien Brody, The Brutalist
Ralph Fiennes, Conclave
Colman Domingo, Sing Sing
Daniel Craig, Queer
Jesse Eisenberg, A Real Pain
Paul Mescal, Gladiator II
John David Washington, The Piano Lesson
Peter Sarsgaard, September 5
Best Actress Mikey Madison, Anora
Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Hard Truths
Angelina Jolie, Maria
Karla Sofía Gascón, Emilia Perez
Nicole Kidman, Babygirl
Demi Moore, The Substance
Lupita Nyong'o, A Quiet Place Day One
Kate Winslet, Lee
Zendaya, Challengers
Jodie Comer, The Bikeriders
Anya Taylor-Joy, Furiosa
June Squibb, Thelma
Best Supporting Actor Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain
Denzel Washington, Gladiator II
Stanley Tucci, Conclave
Samuel L. Jackson, The Piano Lesson
Guy Pearce, The Brutalist
Clarence Maclin, Sing Sing
John Magaro, September 5
Paul Raci, Sing Sing
Best Supporting Actress Danielle Deadwyler, The Piano Lesson
Zoe Saldana, Emilia Perez
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Nickel Boys
Isabella Rossellini, Conclave
Rachel Sennott, Saturday Night
Best Director Sean Baker, Anora
Brady Corbet, The Brutalist
Edward Berger, Conclave
Denis Villeneuve, Dune 2
Jesse Eisenberg, A Real Pain
Tim Fehlbaum, September 5
Ridley Scott, Gladiator II
Jason Reitman, Saturday Night
Coralie Fargeat, The Substance
Payal Kapadia. All We Imagine as Light
Greg Kwedar, Sing Sing
Luca Guadagnino, Challengers
George Miller, Furiosa
Adapted Screenplay Conclave
The Piano Lesson
The Life of Chuck
Nickel Boys
Dune 2
Inside Out 2
Furiosa Original Screenplay The Brutalist
A Real Pain
Anora
Saturday Night
Sing Sing
The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Emilia Perez
The Substance
Challengers Cinematography The Brutalist
Dune 2
Gladiator II
Conclave
Furiosa
Best Editing Conclave
Anora
The Brutalist
Gladiator II
Saturday Night
Nickel Boys
Dune 2 Production Design The Brutalist
Dune 2
Saturday Night
Gladiator II
Conclave
Furiosa
Sound Mixing + Editing Dune 2
Saturday Night
Gladiator II
Twisters
Furiosa
Costumes The Brutalist
Dune 2
Gladiator II
Conclave
Furiosa
Visual Effects Twisters
Gladiator II
A Quiet Place: Day One
Deadpool & Wolverine
Alien: Romulus
Furiosa
Dune 2
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
Original Score Challengers
Conclave
Dune 2
Emilia Perez
The Piano Lesson
Inside Out 2
The Wild Robot
Original Song
Makeup and Hair Furiosa
Maria
Gladiator II
The Piano Lesson
Conclave
Dune Part 2
Animated Feature Inside Out 2
Flow
Wild Robot
If
Despicable Me 4
Documentary Feature Will & Harper International Feature
Live Action Short
Documentary Short
Animated Short
Predictions
Interviews
Emmy-Nominated Writers Sam Means and Meredith Scardino on ‘Home Alone’ Doorknobs and the Puppet We Never Met in the ‘Girls5eva’ Episode ‘Orlando’
Awards Daily talks to Girls5eva writer Sam Means and writer/showrunner Meredith Scardino about their Emmy-nominated episode "Orlando." Girls5eva writers Sam...
Double Emmy-Nominee Jonathan Pryce On Embracing Grandfatherly Roles in ‘The Crown,’ ‘Slow Horses’
Actor Jonathan Pryce received two nomination at the 2024 Emmy Awards. His bid for Supporting Actor in a Drama Series...
Laura Dern & Jayme Lemons On the Undeniable Hope Beneath the Comedy of ‘Palm Royale’
Palm Royale has an inescapable charm, but there are so many issues bubbling beneath the surface. Come for the incredible...
Director John McDermott on the Story of How Electric Lady Studios was Created in his Documentary ‘Electric Lady Studios: A Jimi Hendrix Vision’
Grammy nominated Director John McDermott is a proud Jimi Hendrix completist. When we met on Zoom, John’s background was three...
Costume Designer Carol Case On Adding Dashes of Humor In the Darkness of ‘Fargo’
Noah Hawley's Fargo tore through this year's Primetime Emmy nominations with a snarky vengeance. Racking up an impressive 15 nominations,...
Safowa Bright Bitzelberger On Costuming the Rise of The Cocaine Godmother for Netflix’s ‘Griselda’
When I finally sat down to catch up with Netflix's wildly popular limited series Griselda, I was amped to chart...