Oscar History: November 7 (2026)
Looking at Film from Every Angle
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Review: Booksmart (2019)
Booksmart Rating Director Olivia Wilde Screenplay Emily Halpern, Sarah Haskins, Susanna Fogel, Katie Silberman Length 1h 42min Starring Kaitlyn Dever, Beanie Feldstein, Jessica Williams, Jason Sudeikis, Lisa Kudrow, Will Forte, Victoria Ruesga, Mason Gooding, Skyler Gisondo, Diana Silvers, Molly Gordon, Billie Lourd, Eduardo Franco, Nico Hiraga, Austin Crute, Noah Galvin, Mike O’Brien MPAA Rating R…
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The Rundown 2019: Original Score
For our first Rundown article, we look at one of two musical categories. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Original Score as well as general commentary about the race. Thursday, we’ll cover the other musical category: Best Original Song.
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92nd Oscars: The Polls – Best Original Song
For the next 24 days, we’re going to present to you polls for who and what you think the best of 2019 was based on the Oscar nominations. Every morning at 8am, we’ll post a new poll for each category. Just submit your vote for the best in that category and that’s it. We’ll have…
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This Day in Oscar History: January 15 (2020)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Our Site Milestones Born Died Released Oscar Nominations Our Site Milestones 2012: Polls: Best Of… (8)
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Film Preview: Brahms: The Boy II (2020)
Page Revisions: (January 12, 2020) Original (February 16, 2020) New Trailer (#2) / New Posters (#2-#3) Release Date: February 21, 2020 Synopsis: From IMDb: “After a family moves into the Heelshire Mansion, their young son soon makes friends with a life-like doll called Brahms.” Poster Rating: C / B- / C SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW…
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The DVD Report #655
New This Week 1917 may well be on its way to becoming the fourth film about World War I to win an Oscar for Best Picture, following Wings (1927/28), All Quiet on the Western Front (1929/30), and Lawrence of Arabia (1962). Those films and few others about the war have even been nominated for Oscar’s…
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2019 Oscar Winner Predictions: First, Post-Nomination
With all of the shocks and surprises of the Academy Awards nominations, our contributors have put together these first post-nomination predictions. We’ll do individual posts this week discussing our individual predictions and we’ll have a final set of predictions the Friday before the Oscars. Some of our contributors even provided commentary. I present that here…
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This Day in Oscar History: January 14 (2020)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released Oscar Nominations
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Precursor: 4th Hawaii Critics Awards (2019)
Unlike last year’s embarrassment of having every other winner a tie because there were only 4 members, that issue has been resolved with their expansion to 7 members. That said, they may have done something else to prevent ties because that’s still too few to avoid it. Other than that, this slate looks like it…
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Film Preview: My Boyfriend’s Meds (2020)
Page Revisions: (January 12, 2020) Original (February 16, 2020) New Posters (#1-#2) Release Date: February 21, 2020 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A woman’s island getaway with her boyfriend is thrown for a loop when he forgets to take his prescription medications along.” Poster Rating: C+ / C SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: (#1) The colors are…
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2019 Oscar Nominations Predictions: Our Statistics
Based on our predictions, here’s how we did (I changed two of mine in the days after this post was made, but I didn’t afford the others said opportunity, so I’m leaving them as previously predicted). Once again, it was an incredibly close competition. 1 correct prediction separated first and a tie for second with…
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Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 8
As the precursor awards continue unabated until Oscar night, I’m going to be providing a weekly update highlighting the films that have won and lost momentum through the precursor awards (and in some cases other outside influences). While there were a handful of precursors in the last week, including the important Directors Guild of America…
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92nd Oscar Nominations
There were a lot of omissions and handful of unexpected results. Nine nominees in Best Picture and all but one of them received more than 5 nominations. Joker did exceptionally well, earning nominations in categories that weren’t exactly expected (see Costume Design). It was the top nominated film of the year, just like at BAFTA…
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This Day in Oscar History: January 13 (2020)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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