Tag: Academy Awards
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New Episode of the “Academy Anonymous” Podcast Now Live!
We’re barreling toward a massive Warners Bros. showdown as the Oscar race for 2026 comes to a climax! On this episode, we set the stage for Oscar night by analyzing the winners from the film industry’s most revealing guild awards, including the Directors Guild Awards, Producers Guild Awards and Actor Awards (Screen Actors Guild Awards).…
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New Episode of the Academy Anonymous Podcast!
A new episode of the Academy Anonymous podcast is now LIVE and available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube and anywhere else you like to listen. On this episode, we dig into all the revelations from the announcement of this year’s Academy Award nominees! Which films and performances surprised and which stalled or fizzled out completely?…
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Oscar Predictions Updated!
Check out our Oscar predictions page to see updates in several categories following the long awaited premiere of Marty Supreme at the New York Film Festival. Plus Chase Infiniti moves into Best Actress as Warner Bros. and One Battle After Another continue their quest to make Oscar history as the first film to score SIX…
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The Fate of Searchlight in the Hands of “Ann Lee”
We hinted on the Academy Anonymous podcast that with The Testament of Ann Lee still on the bidding table one of the art-house (and Oscar friendly) specialty labels would pounce – but only after their homegrown stock either failed to launch or fizzled! There were rumblings at TIFF about Netflix jumping on board, which we…
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Predictions Updated Across All Oscar Categories!
Happy to announce that nearly all Oscar categories are officially updated with our latest predictions for which films and performers are looking good for nominations at the 2026 Oscars! Head over to the Oscar Predictions page and browse through the categories you’re most excited for to find out how the race is shaping up. This…
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Lucy Liu Officially Joins the Best Actress Hunt, as Vertical plots December release for “Rosemead”
There’s a busy few days ahead for everyone trying to keep pace with the awards circuit as a bevy of highly anticipated films will finally be unveiled in Italy at the Venice Film Festival and Colorado at the Telluride Film Festival. With each passing day, the awards race will start to take shape and we’ll…
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Netflix poised to make a move on “The Testament of Ann Lee”?
By all accounts, it appeared that Mona Fastvold and Brady Corbet wanted to apply the same savvy release strategy that they unfurled last year with “The Brutalist,” the runaway talk of Venice, with this year’s “The Testament of Ann Lee.” After its Venice debut, Corbet’s “The Brutalist” would go on to be acquired by A24…
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Venice Day Seven HOT TAKES: The Return of Kathryn Bigelow, The Sealing Of A Best Picture Nominee
The biggest news out of today’s Venice Film Festival screenings was loud and clear: Kathryn Bigelow’s first film in eight years (her last being the under-seen Detroit in 2017) was unanimously adored by critics, earning an impressive 88 on Metacritic and 88% on Rotten Tomatoes. Joseph and I predicted this outcome on our last podcast,…
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Venice Day Six HOT TAKES: Acting Contenders Emerge in Dwayne Johnson, Amanda Seyfried, and Emily Blunt
The two biggest premieres on Day 6 of the 82nd Venice Film Festival were without question Benny Safdie’s The Smashing Machine—his first feature without his brother Josh—and Mona Fastvold’s The Testament of Ann Lee, which arrives on the heels of her Oscar nomination last year for co-writing The Brutalist. Both films landed strongly with critics,…
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Telluride Film Festival RECAP: Get Ready For HAMNET
The 52nd Telluride Film Festival (which always takes place over Labor Day weekend) wraps up tomorrow, with most of the heavy hitters now unveiled. Among the standouts already seen at Cannes (and by yours truly) were Sentimental Value, The Secret Agent, It Was Just an Accident, The Mastermind, Nouvelle Vague, The History of Sound, and…
