(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 Picture final...
As the absence of any potential Oscar fodder from the just-wrapped Berlin Film Festival became apparent -- pundits on the hunt for a second consecutive "A Separation"-style crossover item were disappointed w...
I am no fan, to put it gently, of John Williams's chintzily instructive and inevitably Oscar-nominated score for "War Horse," but I'll admit I've been feeling the need for it all day. Williams is a master in...
With each year's Oscar nominations, movie buffs everywhere bemoan the perceived disses of certain films and performers, while smacking their foreheads over the thought of who got nominated in their place. This year is...
It's been a busy morning. The nominees are out. About a thousand different variations of "it's humbling and exciting" are coming through from the various contenders. And all eyes are fixing on February ...
The nominations have been unveiled for the 84th annual Academy Awards, and from that list, we can glean this and that about the vast voting body. What do the snubs mean? What do the surprise inclusions mean? ...
After four and a half months of campaigning, awards season has entered its final stretch. On Tuesday, the Academy will announce the nominees for the 84th Academy Awards with major changes to the best picture fact in e...
Predicting Best Makeup nominees is always a blind-man's-buff process, but the one title we can reasonably expect to show up on Tuesday morning is "The Iron Lady"; like Marion Cotillard's Edith Piaf, Meryl St...
If there is any yearly awards event that usually reflects this writer's cinematic leanings it would be the BAFTA Film Awards. In fact, the U.K.'s version of the Academy Awards has had a special place in my heart...
It's tough for Jolie to blow it on the red carpet (well, at least in recent years - we still remember that Morticia Addams Oscar look), but this may be one of her best looks ever. The pops of red on the dress, the clu...
