The Academy Awards is now less than three weeks away – Sunday April 25th. Final voting takes place from the 15th through the 20th. Some races are pretty much (though not entirely) locked-in, while others are still very wide open. Let’s break it down: BEST PICTURE “Nomadland” is the Golden Globe, Critics Choice and PGA […]
The Academy Awards nominations will *finally* be announced this Monday morning! There are only 23 categories this year instead of 24 because the Sound categories are now combined (for some ridiculous reason). Here are my predictions of the nominees in seven of the major categories: Best Animated Feature “Onward” “Over The Moon” “A Shaun the […]
The directors of Oscars Animated Short Film finalist “Traces” join me for this Animation Scoop Q&A. ————————————– Lights Camera Jackson (a.k.a. Jackson Murphy) began his career as a film critic/entertainment reporter in 2006 at the age of 7. Jackson has written over 1,000 reviews of new releases. And altogether he has seen more than 1,500 […]
In 1999, after many years on Monday night, the Academy Awards moved to Sunday night. It’s stayed that way for my entire life. In fact, I can’t imagine the Oscars *not* being on a Sunday night. It’s the Super Bowl for movie buffs. We have parties and pools with co-workers and friends, turning it all […]
Next month marks the 25th anniversary of a unique Walt Disney Animation Studios Mickey Mouse short: “Runaway Brain”. It was released theatrically in August 1995 with the film “A Kid in King Arthur’s Court” (which flat-out bombed). But “RB” was nominated for that year’s Best Animated Short Film Academy Award (losing to “Wallace & Gromit” […]
Jackson joins hosts Benita Zahn and Ellen Cribbs on the Everything Theater Podcast to talk about “Judy” & “The Two Popes” (plays that were turned into movies) and the 2020 Oscars. —————————- Lights Camera Jackson (a.k.a. Jackson Murphy) began his career as a film critic/entertainment reporter in 2006 at the age of 7. Jackson has […]
The 92nd Annual Academy Awards is this Sunday Feb. 9 at 8pmET on ABC. It’s the Earliest Oscars Ever – and a one-and-done situation. The show will go back to the end of February next year. So how will the scrunched awards season impact the grand finale? There are locks in some of the major […]
This year’s Oscar Nominated Animated Short Films all have something to say — a cause to champion or an issue to put front and center. It’s not the most feel-good collection, but you can find positives in all of them. “Daughter” won the Student Academy Award in 2018. It’s a moving, stop-motion father-daughter story with […]
If “Parasite” wins the Best Picture Academy Award, it will be a landmark victory for a number of reasons. One of them is for its studio, NEON. Just 3 years in, and NEON has established itself as one of the top indie movie studios. Their first movie, “Colossal” starring Anne Hathaway, got some attention. “I, […]
It’s not nominated in any acting, writing or directing categories. But here are 7 reasons why “Ford v. Ferrari” could still win the Best Picture Oscar: It’s Nominated for Film Editing “Ford” joins four fellow Best Picture nominees “The Irishman”, “Jojo Rabbit”, “Joker” and “Parasite” in the Film Editing category. 10 of the past 11 […]