Thursday, October 17, 2024

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Oscars 2025: Sweetheart Deal is a Triumph of Documentary Storytelling

I will come clean and admit I don't watch many documentaries anymore. I can't bear it. They have become persuasive essays, aka propaganda that tells you what to think without offering an objective viewpoint, which is essential to a great documentary. So I was hesitant to watch Sweetheart Deal, as I am every documentary now. But I was wrong. It is one of the best...

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2025 Oscar Predictions – Introducing The 1st Annual Gate Crashers

After Rebecca Keegan decided that my tweets and opinions were worth an expose at the Hollywood Reporter, I was "canceled" the way people often are in these terrifying, crippling, suffocating, puritanical, nauseating times we find ourselves living through. No one likes it yet too many people bow to the whims of the scolds. Who bowed to them? Gold Derby. My good friend Tom O'Neil "benched" me to make the other predictors "feel safe" keep the ad money rolling in....

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Angelina Jolie Honored with the Modern Master Award at SBIFF

The Santa Barbara Film Festival offers contenders an ideal showcase heading into the second part of the Oscar race (Phase 2). Under the direction of Roger Durling, he holds lengthy interviews with actors himself or will have journalists like Anne Thompson or Scott Feinberg interview them. Angelina Jolie is such a big star (one of the last remaining) that when she shows up, everyone in town knows it. So this will be quite the event. Jolie is in the...

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Oscars 2025: The Host Conundrum – Deadpool? The Rock?

There is a line in Alfred Hitchcock's most excellent Rear Window where Grace Kelly defends the pretty dancer surrounded by men in the apartment across the way, "I'd say she is doing a woman's hardest job, juggling wolves." That reminds me of Bill Kramer's job heading into the Oscars. He's juggling wolves. It's impossible to satisfy everyone and still produce a popular show that doesn't crater in the ratings to an embarrassing degree. No one in the Hollywood of...

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NextGen Oscarwatcher – Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress

I have decided to combine both Supporting Actor and Supporting Actress. Best Supporting Actress Best Supporting Actress as a category is always wildly popular because it seems to be more “adventurous” races compared to other above the line wins. Despite several inconsistent wins regarding quality and acceptance from the Oscar community, its recipients are traditionally considered more unique and “out there.” From honoring career narratives (Viola Davis, Laura Dern) to anointing rising stars (Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Alicia Vikander), it...

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Delaney Buffett Honored with Golden Key Rising Star Award

The Key West Film Festival will honor Delaney Buffett with the fourth annual Golden Key Award for Emerging Talent, and the screening of her film "Adult Best Friends," which will screen at the festival heading into the thick of award season. In the past, the festival has honored up-and-comers, like Kodi Smit-McPhee for The Power of the Dog, Elegance Bratton for his work on The Inspection, and Thomasin McKenzie for her work in Eileen. Adult Best Friends has a 100%...

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2025 Oscar Predictions: The Oscars and a Close Election

It's impossible not to see this Oscar race, like every Oscar race, as a reflection of what's happening politically. I've been covering the Oscars since the very end of the Bill Clinton administration, on through the George W. Bush administration, then through Obama, then Trump, then Biden, and now, in just two agonizing weeks, the results of this year's election. There is no getting around politics this year, especially not now. So, for this week, I will write THE...

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Introducing AD Predicts! Do Your Worst.

We're putting together a group of predictors called the Gate Crashers. These will be a group of assembled industry folks who are on the margins of the cool kids at Gold Derby, or have been shunned outright. We're the outsiders, if you will. We will be releasing our first batch of predictions soon and will release who all is involved. But in the meantime, I'm also introducing the first ever AD Predicts, a chance for readers to participate in...

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SO FAR... Best Picture Anora
Conclave
Emilia Perez
The Brutalist
A Real Pain
Hard Truths
Sing Sing
Nickel Boys
Saturday Night
The Substance
Dune 2
All We Imagine as Light
The Piano Lesson
Inside Out 2
The Life of Chuck
Best Actor Adrien Brody, The Brutalist
Ralph Fiennes, Conclave
Colman Domingo, Sing Sing
Daniel Craig, Queer
Tom Hiddleston, The Life of Chuck
Jesse Eisenberg, A Real Pain
John David Washington, The Piano Lesson
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
Stanley Tucci, Conclave
Samuel L. Jackson, The Piano Lesson
Guy Pearce, The Brutalist
Clarence Maclin, Sing Sing
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
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
Conclave
Furiosa
Best Editing Conclave
Anora
The Brutalist
Saturday Night
Nickel Boys
Dune 2
Production Design The Brutalist
Dune 2
Saturday Night
Conclave
Furiosa
Sound Mixing + Editing Dune 2
Saturday Night
Twisters
Furiosa
Costumes The Brutalist
Dune 2
Conclave
Furiosa
Visual Effects Twisters
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
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

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