"The Artist" may have been the big winner last night, but for better or worse, Viola Davis's surprise Best Actress loss to Meryl Streep is set to remain the principal talking point of this year's Academy Awa...
As In Contention's Kristopher Tapley would say, "Pencils down." Yes, it's time for the HitFix awards crew to give our final, final, "no we won't change it Saturday night" predictions for the ...
(The Oscar Guide will be your chaperone through the Academy’s 24 categories awarding excellence in film. A new installment will hit every weekday in the run-up to the Oscars on February 26, with the Best Pictur...
With four days to go until the Academy Awards, we've reached the point in the season -- indeed, given the season's inordinate length and predictability, we've been there for some time -- where everything that's potent...
In five hours, it's pencils down for the Academy. Ballots are due this afternoon and then it's five days before we find out what they amounted to.
For the most part, these races are decided. We sometimes get big, stu...
With ballots due in a matter of hours, we're in the home stretch of Oscar season. But while some of the races are decided, that doesn't mean we're not crossing our fingers for this upset or that for deserving competit...
If you're hoping for any surprises or upsets at this year's Academy Awards the chances of that occurring are getting less and less likely.
"The Artist" pretty much dominated the 2012 BAFTA Film Awards Su...
Simply by virtue of being the last televised precursor stop en route to the Academy Awards, the BAFTA Awards attract far more eyeballs, and provoke far more speculation, than they would at any other point in the calen...
Gary Oldman is back in town and hitting the press rounds hard on behalf of his first-ever Oscar nomination for "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy." And though I'm fairly resigned to Jean Dujardin turning the tric...
The Oscar nominations featured surprises that both enraged and excited film lovers around the world, but one nod that had Hollywood and moviegoers jumping for joy was the inclusion of Gary Oldman amongst the best acto...
