A strangely jubilant atmosphere prevailed at Monday’s boozy standing lunch in central London, where this year’s British Independent Film Award nominees were read out to an invited crowd of journalists, ind...
Could Meryl Streep find herself looking at yet another trip to the Kodak Theater without a win? The 16-time nominee is back in the race with her role as Margaret Thatcher in "The Iron Lady," but f...
The British Independent Film Awards are essentially the across-the-pond equivalent of the Spirit Awards, but they seem to grow in profile every year as a slightly hipper alternative to (and bellwether of) the BAFTAs. ...
One of this pundit's biggest disappointments last awards season was how little traction Tilda Swinton received for her stunning turn in "I Am Love." That was partially due to the film's release da...
Welcome to Oscar Talk.
In case you're new to the site and/or the podcast, Oscar Talk is a weekly kudocast, your one-stop awards chat shop between yours truly and Anne Thompson of Thompson on Hollywood. The podcast is...
After barreling through the gentlemen looking like Oscar possibilities the last two weeks, today we move on to the ladies. And immediately, I have to take note of Mark Harris's latest column at Grantland, dedicated to...
While she's never quite descended to "whatever happened to..." levels of invisibility, it's certainly been a quiet couple of years for Emily Watson. The London-born actress's film career started relatively l...
