Best Picture

Here we finally are, after a long season of film festivals, screenings, box-office records, guild awards, FYC ads, and tweets....

Because of the way things have gone lately in the past two or three years, we're in uncharted territory. I...

Now that we've heard from a big guild, a really big guild, arguably the biggest guild, and a big awards...

The Academy has been using the ranked choice/preferential ballot since 2009. They had used it once before, way back in...

Finding anyone in Hollywood or who covers Hollywood who will tell you the truth is nearly impossible. To be a...

The London Film Critics Circle announced their winners yesterday, with TÁR besting all of the frontrunners in Best Picture and...

The Oscar race in Best Actress was shaken up by the sudden appearance of Andrea Riseborough once enough Academy members...

It's rough being the frontrunner, especially when there is a whole month to go before voting even starts. This time last...

Tuesday morning Oscar nominations drop. They'll be available everywhere, via livestream. We'll make sure to post that streaming link early...

In anticipation -- and trepidation? -- of the Golden Globes tonight, and before the big drop of the Directors Guild,...

One of the biggest bummers about the Oscar race of late (and almost everyone would agree with this) is how...

In 1999, I started this website, which was called Oscarwatch.com. The Academy tolerated it until I started to make money...

Twitter does seem to be its own ecosphere when it comes to the Oscars. Sometimes it matches reality, sometimes it...

There is no clear frontrunner for Best Picture at the moment, nor for any other category, for that matter. That...

The Golden Globes will announce their award nominations on Monday. That might shake up the race a bit compared to...

2009 was the first year of the preferential or ranked-choice ballot. Avatar came in at the end of the year,...

The first major awards were announced this morning when the New York Film Critics handed out their half-predictable, half-unpredictable awards....

First off, a belated Happy Thanksgiving to you, dear readers. We really are grateful to have you here, especially those...

No film can win Best Picture if it's difficult to understand. This is one of the hardest thing for hardcore...