2025 Oscars: Frontrunners and Challengers out of Toronto
Oscar Predictions 2025: Good As Gold Update Following Telluride and Venice
New Trailer for Saturday Night – Better but Still Old School
Best Actress Watch: Raves for Marianne Jean-Baptiste in Hard Truths
Venice Dispatch – That’s a Wrap
Conclave Tops USA Today’s Best Films from Toronto
USA Today's Brian Truitt lists his top films from the Toronto Film Festival. The number one is Edward Berger's Conclave: Edward Berger follows up his Oscar-winning "All Quiet on the Western Front" remake with something even better: a striking tour de force that's equal parts courtroom drama, detective story and political thriller, with wannabe popes. When the holy father dies, the dour Cardinal Lawrence (Ralph...
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Can “Am I Racist” Put the Daily Wire on the Map as a Legit Studio?
I often say on Twitter that "the empire is collapsing." No one takes me seriously. They don't really care what I think unless it's to punish me for a thought crime, which happens often. But I have two advantages in assessing our current situation. The first, I've been covering film and the Oscars for 25 years. The second, I'm not afraid to tell the truth. What's the truth? Why is the empire in collapse? The short answer is that...
2025 Oscars: Frontrunners and Challengers out of Toronto
We don't know what the Audience Award will be in Toronto. The track record vis a vis Best Picture has been good. Only once since the Academy expanded the ballot has a film not been nominated or won: 2023-American Fiction (nominated for Best Picture, won Screenplay) 2022-The Fabelmans (nominated for Best Picture) 2021-Belfast (nominated for Best Picture, won Screenplay) 2020-Nomadland (won Best Picture) 2019-Jojo Rabbit (nominated Best Picture) 2018-Green Book (won Best Picture) 2017-Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (nominated...
New Trailer for The Apprentice
Dick Cheney has been redeemed. He is now voting for Kamala Harris so it's all forgiven. But remember when Dick Cheney was "evil incarnate" to Hollywood? I do. Heck, I remember when it was Nixon and Reagan too. I lived my whole life believing that my side was the side of the "good guys." But to the Left, Trump is different. He isn't like those stodgy, old-school Republicans. They respect them now. They see them as "good" because they...
James Earl Jones and a Voice We’ll Never Forget
He was only nominated once for an Oscar and lost to George C. Scott in Patton. He should have been nominated many times, especially for Supporting Actor in Field of Dreams. He began his career with one of the greatest films of all time, Dr. Strangelove: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rK_NqewPOLQ Before he became the voice of Darth Vader, he was memorable in films like Claudine and Swashbuckler. He overcame tremendous obstacles to become one of the most well known actors in the...
Oscar Predictions 2025: Good As Gold Update Following Telluride and Venice
The Venice and Telluride Film Festivals are now behind us, with Toronto wrapping up on Sunday, September 15th. Following that, the New York Film Festival will run from September 27 to October 13, London from October 9 to 20, and AFI from October 23 to 27, bringing the major festival season to a close. Many of this year's films have already premiered, while some highly anticipated titles like Blitz, A Complete Unknown, Gladiator II, Wicked, Here, Nosferatu, and Juror...
Weekly Predictions by Sasha Stone
Good as Gold by Mark Johnson
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The Brutalist
A Real Pain
Anora
Emilia Perez
Saturday Night
Dune 2
The Piano Lesson
Sing Sing
Nickel Boys
Inside Out 2
Best Actor Adrien Brody, The Brutalist
Ralph Fiennes, Conclave
Colman Domingo, Sing Sing
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
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 Edward Berger, Conclave
Sean Baker, Anora
Jesse Eisenberg, A Real Pain
Jason Reitman, Saturday Night
Brady Corbet, The Brutalist
Denis Villeneuve, Dune 2
Greg Kwedar, Sing Sing
Luca Guadagnino, Challengers
George Miller, Furiosa
Adapted Screenplay Conclave
The Piano Lesson
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
Reviews
Podcasts
All This and the Oscars Too Podcast
Mark Johnson and I did a quickie podcast to discuss what changed in Telluride. What predictions were moved around, what...
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...