All posts tagged "Oscar hopeful"

Much like he did with the Academy Award nominated The Invisible War, documentarian Kirby Dick shines a light...

Now that we’re actually into the next awards season (even though many people don’t want to even...

Mark my words (just like I said back at the New York Film Festival when I first...

Last week, right after he won the Writers Guild of America prize for Best Adapted Screenplay, Graham...

Animation fascinates me. A lot of that has to do with my inability to draw even a...

Last week (the day of the DGA nominations announcement, actually), I was invited to participate in the...

A few years ago, I really banged the drum to try and get Bill Irwin a Best...

This may not seem like an overt compliment, but I assure you that it is one: J.C....

There’s really no other way to put it…Ethan Hawke is on one hell of a ride right...

A few weeks ago, I was invited to participate in the New York Press Day for Tim...

Some very interesting and potentially nomination shaking news to share with you all. Late last night, I...

Sometimes an initially simple seeming story can be just chock full of deeper meaning. That sort of...

Any writer who sits down to pen a screenplay that’s based on a real life figure always...

There are very few times when a film seems to consider its own plot pretty much besides...

Well, after taking a step back to his earlier days of filmmaking with Flight, director Robert Zemeckis...

When it comes to maternal supporting performances, no one has had quite the 2014 like Laura Dern...

Slowly but surely, it seems like director Jean-Marc Vallee is becoming a bit of an Oscar whisperer....

E tu, Tommy Lee Jones? The well respected veteran actor/filmmaker is very talented on both sides of...

If there’s one thing that I took away from speaking with Bennett Miller that I wanted to...

Last week, I was invited to take part in a small press conference with comedian/political satirist/fake newsman...

Well, consider me shocked. Oh, wait, what’s the opposite of shocked? Anyway, it appears that David O....

I think this goes without saying that there are tons of spoilers for Christopher Nolan‘s just released...

With Rosewater, we can officially look at Jon Stewart not just as a satirical newsman/humorist, but as...

Of the many strengths on display in Bennett Miller‘s new movie Foxcatcher (and there are no shortage...

What a difference the right casting choices can make for certain projects. Without the absolutely extraordinary performance...