Jailhouse to Milhouse (2024)
I had a minor resistance walking into Buddy [...]
The Oscar Nominees
The 96th Academy Awards: Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow? . . . or, at least, on Tuesday?
The 96th Academy Awards are now in the history books. Are they one for the ages? Nah. You’ll talk about it tomorrow, but by Tuesday you’ll have mostly forgotten about it. There was no physical violence. The host shenanigans were mostly held in check. The winners stuck more or less to the predictions (out of […]
My annual (and confidently accurate) Oscar predictions
My prediction accuracy remains about 90%, adding in for surprises. This year, it’s best to best on Christopher Nolan and Oppenheimer. Best PictureThe Nominees:American Fiction | Anatomy of a Fall | Barbie | The Holdovers | Killers of the Flower Moon | Maestro | Oppenheimer | Past Lives | Poor Things | The Zone of […]
The 95th Academy Awards Race: Best Director
The nominees are . . .• Todd Field for Tár• Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert for Everything Everywhere All At Once • Martin McDonagh for The Banshees of Inisherin• Ruben Östlund for Triangle of Sadness• Steven Spielberg for The Fabelmans The year’s race for Best Director will likely tip with the voter’s mood. There is an ample reason to believe […]
The 95th Academy Awards Race: Best Actor
The nominees are . . . • Austin Butler in Elvis• Colin Farrell in The Banshees of Inisherin• Brendan Fraser in The Whale• Pedro Pascal in Aftersun• Bill Nighy in Living This year’s Best Actor race keeps shifting. Early on, it was thought that newcomer Austin Butler may win for playing three decades as The King in Elvis. Then he and […]
The 95th Academy Awards Race: Best Actress
The nominees are . . . . • Cate Blanchett in Tár • Ana de Armas in Blonde• Andrea Riseborough in To Leslie• Michelle Williams in The Fabelmans• Michelle Yeoh in Everything Everywhere All At Once Right or wrong, the 2023 contest for Best Actress is as fascinating as it complicated. Two overriding favorites Viola Davis and Danielle Deadwyler […]
The 95th Academy Awards Race: Best Adapted Screenplay
The Nominees are . . .• All Quiet on the Western Front by Edward Berger, Lesley Paterson & Ian Stokell; based on the book by Erich Maria Remarque• Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery by Rian Johnson; based on the character Benoit Blanc from the film Knives Out by Rian Johnson• Living by Kazuo Ishiguro; based on the film Ikiru […]
The 95th Academy Awards Race: Best Original Screenplay
The nominees are . . . .• The Banshees of Inisherin by Martin McDonagh• Everything Everywhere All At Once by Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert• The Fabelmans by Tony Kushner & Steven Spielberg• Tár by Todd Field• Triangle of Sadness by Ruben Östlund Herein lies the goony-bird category. The Best Original Screenplay category is traditionally where the offbeat and the strange often find […]
The 95th Academy Awards Race: Best Animated Feature
The Nominees are . . . ″ Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson, Gary Ungar & Alex Bulkley, producers″ Marcel the Shell With Shoes On, Dean Fleischer Camp, Elisabeth Holm, Andrew Goldman, Caroline Kaplan & Paul Mezey, producers″ Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, Joel Crawford & Mark Swift, producers″ The Sea Beast, Chris Williams & Jed Schlanger, producers″ Turning Red, Domee […]
