That is the place Oscar season will get ugly. As I wrote earlier today, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences put out an announcement wherein they stated they had been “conducting a review of the campaign procedures around this year’s nominees,” however didn’t point out any particular movie …

I love the title of Oscar winning documentarian (An Inconvenient Truth) Davis Guggenheim’s wonderful new docu on the life and times of Michael J. Fox. It is called Still A Michael J. Fox Movie. The Sundance web site has a colon where you might expect it to be , right …

In a nutshell the brilliantly hilarious, pertinent, and wickedly smart new movie, You People is in some ways a new age Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner, that landmark 1967 Tracy-Hepburn-Poitier Oscar winning comedy about the effect an interracial relationship has on the parents of the young couple. Of course back …

2018’s sleeper hit, Searching, showed you could create an effective edge-of-your-seat mystery thriller told exclusively through the use of the screens that dominate our daily lives in this century. It starred John Cho as a father whose 16-year-old daughter disappears, leading him to use all the tools of the internet …

The last time Mexican superstar Eugenio Derbez had a film at Sundance in 2021. The movie was CODA, and it not only swept all the top prizes at the fest that year, it went on to win three Oscars including Best Picture. He had a supporting role in that film …

With the lively, fun and star-packed Critics Choice Awards on Sunday night at the Fairmont Century Plaza ballroom (and accompanying viewing party upstairs that elegantly handled the 300 members and guests who lost the organization’s ticket lottery and couldn’t get a seat) now history, there is really nothing between it …

A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit. AFI president and CEO Bob Gazzale spoke a real truth about the money-making Hollywood awards machine as he opened the proceedings for Friday’s annual AFI Awards honoring the year’s best in movies in television as chosen by a distinguished jury. …

EXCLUSIVE: As soon as once more, working below the Guild’s restrictive guidelines for inclusion amongst nominees for the WGA Awards for Finest Authentic and Tailored Screenplays, a number of main Oscar contending screenplays are AWOL on the official WGA poll despatched to eligible voting members this morning. That is an …

When you will have a world finest vendor that was on the NYT record for 42 weeks after which made right into a multi-Oscar-nominated Swedish movie that turned the third-most profitable within the historical past of that nation Ingmar Bergman referred to as house, you would possibly surprise what the …

It appears this time of yr each critic goes to weigh in with their 10 Finest Listing for one thing or different. It’s what we do on the finish of the yr, and 2022 isn’t any completely different. And as I all the time do, I cheated. So sue me. …