Tag: Hamnet
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New Episode of the “Academy Anonymous” Podcast Now Live!
On the latest episode of our Academy Anonymous podcast, we recap the winners of last night’s Critics Choice Awards. Have Jesse Buckley and Timothée Chalamet announced themselves are clear favorites? Can wins for Jacob Elordi and Amy Madigan translate to Oscar success? Plus, we predict which films and performances will get nominated this week at…
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The Critics Choice Awards and Their Complicated Role as an Oscar Precursor vs. Prognosticator
The Critics Choice Association will unveil its nominees on Friday, and as always, I find myself approaching the announcement with mixed feelings. For all its visibility, the ceremony has long carried an air of amateurism and a lingering question of who is actually deliberating its awards. Unlike established critical institutions such as the New York…
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Gotham Film Awards 2024 Predictions: Who Will Win and What It Means for the Oscars
As is traditionally the case, the east coast film critics of the United States will be first out of the gate with singling out the year’s best in film. We’ll be watching a New York double-bill on the Oscar circuit as the Gotham Film Awards announce winners on Monday, December 1st and the New York…
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Predicting the 2025 Gotham Film Awards Nominations
As the 2025 Gotham Independent Film Awards nominations are set to be announced, anticipation is high for what many consider the first major awards season precursor of the year. The Gotham Film Awards, presented by the Gotham Film & Media Institute, have long been a reliable early indicator of the industry’s critical favorites — and…
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TIFF 2025: Who’s The Real Favorite? TIFF’s People’s Choice Award, Its New International Rival, and Our Predictions
The winner of the coveted TIFF People’s Choice Award will be announced tomorrow. I say “coveted” because TIFF and the pundit class like to position the recipients of this prize as a bellwether for Academy Awards success. But how true is that, really? The first People’s Choice Award was handed out in 1978—two years after…
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TIFF 2025 Round-up: The Hits, Misses, and Surprises
The 50th annual Toronto Film Festival is winding down, so here’s a rundown of the chatter surrounding the buzziest premieres, alongside fresh reactions to films that first screened at Cannes, Venice, and Telluride. Derek Cianfrance’s Roofman drew praise for Channing Tatum and Kirsten Dunst’s grounded performances and authentic chemistry, as well as its quirky warmth,…
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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…
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HAMNET is soaring at the Telluride Film Festival; Jeremy Allen White impressing as The Boss
The Telluride Film Festival has officially started, and the first big peeks were Chloe Zhao’s much anticipated HAMNET and Scott Cooper’s DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE. We’ll have more tomorrow, when official reviews will be out, but the verdict for HAMNET is: a bona fide Best Picture contender (as Joseph and I predicted from the get-go),…
