Category: Oscar Preview

We had five films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Nightmare Alley Guillermo del Toro’s colorful remake of thriller Nightmare Alley sounds, on paper, like the perfect material for Oscar contention. Much like The Shape of Water, Del Toro seems to be on a mission to take the genres of the…

We had two films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. West Side Story Steven Spielberg has been an Oscar mainstay for years now. His first nominations came in 1975 when his blockbuster (a term coined because of the film’s success) Jaws nabbed a Best Picture nomination. Outside a handful of misses,…

We had two films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Flee Animated documentaries have become an ever present part of Oscar season as each new one tries to become the first to secure Oscar nominations for both Documentary Feature and Animated Feature. No title has done it yet. Flee comes into…

We had four films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Encanto Disney and Pixar have been trading off major Oscar contenders for years now. This year, the studios have three total efforts to go into Oscar season with and all three are original properties, meaning all three have a solid chance…

We had three films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Ghostbusters: Afterlife With their fourth Ghostbusters feature, this is a film that had a lot of hopes riding on it. Some of the original film’s fans were incensed by the idea of the franchise being hijacked by women with 2016’s all-female…

We had two films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Belfast Early in his directorial career, actor-director Kenneth Branagh focused much of his effort on following the mold of Laurence Olivier, cinema’s last great Shakespearean craftsman. With the occasional non-Shakespeare adaptation thrown into the mix, he left that all behind for…

We had two films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Eternals Chloé Zhao’s first film following her Best Picture winner, is the polar opposite of her intimate indie feature. Eternals is a big budget Marvel film that wants to be taken seriously for having attracted such a hot director, but is…

We had no films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations.

We had three films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Dune One of the year’s biggest films has emerged from critical response as an Oscar contender, at least in the technical categories. Based on Frank Herbert’s classic sci-fi novel, Dune is Denis Villeneuve’s latest technical marvel starring an array of prominent…

We had one film release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. The Last Duel Ridley Scott’s first of two new films this year sounds like an Oscar contender on paper. The film stars Oscar nominees and winners Adam Driver, Matt Damon, and Ben Affleck. It’s written by Affleck, Damon, and Nicole Holofcener.…

We had two films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. No Time to Die In spite of its immense popularity, the James Bond film franchise has always had a legitimacy issue surrounding its genre trappings. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has quite a few genres they tend to…