Monday, December 9, 2024

Awards

Chasing the Gold: “Wicked,” “Emilia Pérez” and a Game of Best Picture Musical Chairs

Since the advent of movie sound, there have been movie musicals. Their power has waned over the years, but there is almost always one that a big studio will take a chance...

Chasing the Gold: Overlooked Precursor Pulls Cinematography Race into Focus

The Oscar race’s precursor phase is generally thought to kick off once the New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC), Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA), National Board of Review (NBR), and a...

Challenging Perceptions: Zendaya on Tashi Duncan

Zendaya's face as Tashi Duncan dominated the posters for Luca Guadagnino's erotic tennis drama Challengers. The former prodigy, now wife and manager of fading champion Art Donaldson (Mike Faist), with her purple...

Chasing The Gold: Interview with Matt Wood, Co-Star of ‘Saturday Night’

Saturday Night has been one of this year’s film surprises, with an exciting young ensemble cast and a lovely return for director Jason Reitman. The biggest surprise, though, is Matt Wood’s performance as the iconic...

Chasing The Gold: Editing Time

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...

Chasing the Gold: Best Actress: The Legacy Oscar

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...

Chasing the Gold: Best Picture: Superheroes are No Longer Golden

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...

Chasing the Gold: Best Original Screenplay: The Real, the Weird, and the Dramedy

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,...

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