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...

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

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...

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...

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....

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...

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: