I like to romanticize editing as an art in and of itself. Unlike painting, sculpture, stage performance, or photography, film gets the benefit of an edit. A scene in a movie can...
There is a concept that circulates every award season and is pervasive in every conversation about the performance categories. It's called a "Legacy Oscar." Essentially, a "Legacy Oscar" is about rewarding a...
It seemed for a while there (pre-pandemic) that superhero films were building to something. It seemed a sort of legitimacy was developing within critic's groups and awards circuits as the genre ballooned...
I've discovered that rather than trying to categorize the five nominated films in Best Original Screenplay into archetypes like you would with Best Picture— the Indie Darling, the Blockbuster, the Genre Defier,...
Pundits handicap Oscar nominations on a spectrum between activism and dispassionate observation. Even those who typically lean toward the latter pole will occasionally (when wading through the uncertainties of a category’s bottom...
Power is almost always equated with violence: all of those old-school movie heroes, from John Wayne to Arnold Schwarzenegger, were males who proved their worth on screen through killing, mutilating, beating the...
Picking the winner for Best Animated Feature might not be too tricky, as there are usually one or two films ahead of the pack regarding this award, but predicting the films that...
Few Oscarological tenets are as dogmatically observed as the correlation between Best Supporting Actress winners and musicals nominated for Best Picture. Most pundits currently expect Zoe Saldaña (Emilia Pérez) to carry forth...
