There are three reasons I've chosen the photo to your left to illustrate this post: 1) Best Actor and Best Original Screenplay nominations for "Take Shelter" are two of the fragile limbs I've climbed out on ...
Tomorrow brings the first major cull in what is almost annually the most exasperating of Oscar races, Best Foreign Language Film. As has become the new custom, a shortlist of nine titles will be announced in the morni...
Not since the 2002 awards season was bouncily dominated by "Chicago" -- the last comedy, or indeed musical, to take the Best Picture Oscar -- has drama looked like more of an afterthought at the Golden Globe...
It proves there is little suspense over this year's Golden Globes winners when the buzz isn't about who the HFPA will honor, but who will be the subject of host Ricky Gervais' zingers. The critically acclaimed w...
On Monday, the most important precursor announcement of them all drops: the Directors Guild of America offers up its list of nominees for excellence in directing.
Except it isn't really about "excellence in dire...
Tomorrow the Writers Guild of America (WGA) announces its narrative feature and documentary nominees. Something to remember is that a number of this year's Oscar-contending screenplays are ineligible for the awar...
This year's PGA nominees (announced tomorrow) will do little to clear up the Best Picture scenario at the Oscars. Why? Because the guild will be chalking up a full slate of 10 nominees once again, despi...
It's been a pretty relentless week for precursor announcements, and we're not over the hump yet: tomorrow brings the Screen Actors' Guild nominations, Thursday the Golden Globe list, and then we can all go more or les...
The New York Film Critics Circle will be voting for its annual superlatives on Tuesday. It won't exactly be definitive, though, seeing as the group was so anxious to be heard first that it won't even se...
Looking back at the past decade, there hasn't been many surprises in the race to win the best actor Academy Award. By the time the New Year came around, most pundits and Academy members pretty much already knew ...
