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Full disclosure, I was asked to participate in this voting panel of a small number of people. While in general I do not belong to any voting group that decides nominees and ...

There have been enough times now when Golden Globe and Oscar voters have surprised pundits by choosing films way outside the groupthink circle, so we should always consider the possibility It's nearly ...

The Oscar race is kind of, sort of taking shape at the moment. But there has not yet been the big buzz wave we'd have already experienced by now in an ordinary ...

The Gothams were announced this morning with some surprises. I have a feeling the reactions to it are going to fall three different ways: excitement by many about five films by women ...

The 2020 IFP Gotham Award nominations are: Best Feature The Assistant Kitty Green, director; Scott Macaulay, James Schamus, P. Jennifer Dana, Ross Jacobson, producers (Bleecker Street) First Cow Kelly Reichardt, director; Neil ...

Best Actor is often the strongest link to Best Picture in the Oscar race. The reason is that males are the default protagonists. Men like to watch men, and women do too. ...

2020 has to be, without a doubt, one of the most difficult years in recent memory to be living through. Where to even start, honestly. We prop up our battered conventions in ...

Middleburg, VA, October 5, 2020 – The Middleburg Film Festival announced the recipients of its annual awards today which will be recognized with a series of virtual conversations and tributes to take place ...

Best Actress is always the category that draws much attention, at least around these parts. I myself have always been most interested in Best Picture. As my dearly departed friend David Carr ...

Delroy Lindo will apparently be submitted as lead rather than supporting, according to Clayton Davis at Variety. Netflix has many films headed for the Oscar race and thus figuring out who will ...

Back 2001, Halle Berry became the first and only black woman to win Best Actress in all of Oscar history. It seemed like it was the beginning of history shifting but that ...

The period following Labor Day weekend means two things to folks like you and me: summer is on full tilt, winding down hastily and taking with it the last gasp of barbecues ...

In general, AwardsDaily has never really had traditional Oscar predictions the way other sites have. When I started my site in 1999 I started it not to predict the Oscar race but ...

If this was an ordinary year, we'd be half-way to Venice and Telluride right now. We'd be gathering our ideas about which films and which performances were potentially going to the big ...

Oscar season appears to remain on track, albeit following a long rattling agonizing season that won't really become a real race until February of next year. All the same, old habits die ...

At the last Oscar ceremony thousands iof us were crammed into the Dolby Theater. Everywhere you turned, every conversation you heard was about Bong Joon-Ho's Parasite. How it went from the movie ...

Awards Daily is proud to present a sneak peak at the latest episode of Starz's Blindspotting. Starting Jasmine Cephas Jones and Jaylen Barron, Blindspotting follows the events of the 2018 film of the same ...

As I've written about before, I believe Hollywood has painted itself into a corner much the same way the Democratic Party has -- meaning, it is under the thumb of a Twitter ...

Awards Daily talks to Blindspotting composers Michael Yezerski and Ambrose Akinmusire about how the music of the STARZ series takes audiences on the emotional journey of the characters. "This was a really ...

LOS ANGELES, August 6, 2020 – The first virtual edition of the American Black Film Festival (ABFF), now in its 24th year, will feature a robust slate of speakers including Stacey Abrams, ...