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The 2016 Spirit & Razzie Awards

Josh Zyber — Tue, 01 Mar 2016 14:00:16 +0000

The Oscars may not have given out any awards to black people this weekend, but at least the Spirit Awards weren’t afraid to. In other news, the Razzies continue to be a pointless waste of time. Spirit Awards I’ve given the Spirit Awards plenty of grief in recent years. What should allegedly be a celebration...

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2016 Oscar Winners

Josh Zyber — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 07:03:10 +0000

Over the course of what I swear felt like 12 grueling hours, this year’s relentlessly dull Academy Awards ceremony stirred to life only briefly with shocking upset victories in two categories, including the big prize of the night. Prior to the very moment he lost, Sylvester Stallone looked like a sure thing for Best Supporting...

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Poll: Which 2016 Oscar Nominated Movies Have You Seen?

Josh Zyber — Wed, 24 Feb 2016 20:00:36 +0000

In case you hadn’t been paying attention, the Academy Awards will air this Sunday night. Often, many people use the last few days before the ceremony to catch up with the Oscar nominated movies they missed. How many of this year’s crop have you seen? The following poll contains all of the movies nominated for...

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2016 SAG Award Winners

Josh Zyber — Tue, 02 Feb 2016 14:00:56 +0000

In most years, the Screen Actors Guild Awards are considered a predictor for the Oscars. In light of the #OscarsSoWhite controversy, however, voters for the Saggies (that’s not actually what the trophies are called, but it should be) made a point of distancing themselves from this year’s Oscar nominations. I don’t say that to diminish...

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2016 Oscar Nominations

Josh Zyber — Thu, 14 Jan 2016 19:00:26 +0000

Let’s put all that Golden Globe nonsense behind us and get on with the real awards. The 2016 Oscar nominations were announced this morning by actor Zachary Levi and Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences president Cheryl Boone Isaacs. Did anything surprise you? I’m surprised that ‘Sicario’ got snubbed in all of the major...

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2016 Golden Globe Winners

Josh Zyber — Mon, 11 Jan 2016 16:00:00 +0000

It used to be, in years past, that the big winners at the Golden Globes were often in sync with the Oscars that followed and could be considered a strong predictor. That isn’t necessarily the case anymore. Basically, nobody takes the Globes seriously, least of all master-of-ceremonies Ricky Gervais, who returned for his fourth time...

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Statuesque: 2015 Oscar Winners

Josh Zyber — Mon, 23 Feb 2015 06:14:14 +0000

Forget the other six nominees. For weeks now, it has been obvious that the race for this year’s Best Picture Academy Award was really a two-film battle between ‘Birdman’ and ‘Boyhood’. At the end of the long evening, Alejandro Iñárritu’s ‘Birdman’ took flight with the prize. I find this a little surprising, honestly. A couple...

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Statuesque: Shannon’s 2015 Oscar Predictions

Shannon Nutt — Wed, 18 Feb 2015 14:00:43 +0000

About a month ago, this year’s Academy Awards seemed like a perfunctory affair, with most of the major categories leaning heavily toward one movie particular movie or actor. Since then, however, it’s become a real horse race between two films: the early frontrunner ‘Boyhood’ and the late bloomer ‘Birdman’. How things will actually pan out...

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Statuesque: Redmayne Now a Best Actor Frontrunner

Shannon Nutt — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 20:00:47 +0000

While there were no huge surprises in the movie categories at the 21st Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards this past Sunday night, one thing became clear as the evening came to a close: Eddie Redmayne is now the clear frontrunner for a Best Actor Oscar. Redmayne and Michael Keaton each took home Best Actor trophies...

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Statuesque: Confessions of a Razzie Awards Voter

Shannon Nutt — Tue, 20 Jan 2015 20:00:28 +0000

Per tradition, the day before the new Oscar nominees were announced last week, the nominations for the 35th Annual Golden Raspberry Awards – better known to all as the Razzies – were announced first. As most of you are aware, the Razzie Awards acknowledge the worst of the worst of the year’s movies – except...

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Statuesque: 2015 Oscar Nominations

Josh Zyber — Thu, 15 Jan 2015 17:00:52 +0000

The race is officially on! In a presentation broadcast this morning, actor Chris Pine, directors J.J. Abrams and Alfonso Cuaron, and Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Cheryl Boone Isaacs announced the 2015 Oscar nominations. This year brings us eight Best Picture nominees. Most of them were easy to predict beforehand, though I...

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Statuesque: 2015 Golden Globe Winners

Josh Zyber — Mon, 12 Jan 2015 05:00:43 +0000

‘Boyhood’ and ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’ came up as the big winners at the Golden Globe Awards on Sunday night. Not that anyone has ever taken the Globes seriously as a measure of artistic worth, but the awards are sometimes considered a possible indicator of future Oscar success. Sometimes, not always. In fact, I’m not...

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