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January 14, 2016
Will Leitch
Once Again, The Oscars Will Be Oh So White
The nominations are out, and we have snubs, surprises, and a strong field for Best Picture.
January 13, 2016
Tim Grierson, Will Leitch
Our Academy Award Predictions for 2015
Oscar nominations often say more about the people who vote for them than they do about the movies themselves.
January 8, 2016
Elaine Teng
BAFTA continues its desperate quest to be an Oscar forecaster.
February 23, 2015
Ethan Gates
Why Hollywood Keeps Awarding Movies About Movies
It's not only because the Academy is self-absorbed
February 23, 2015
Cristian Farias
John Legend Made the Most Important Point at the Oscars
February 23, 2015
Elaine Teng
The Whitewashed Oscars Redeemed Hollywood With a Surprisingly Political Ceremony
February 23, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
The Problem With Patricia Arquette's Oscar Speech
February 22, 2015
Aurin Squire
Why 'Selma' Didn't Win Best Picture
February 20, 2015
Tom Carson
Both "Birdman" and "Boyhood" Are Stunts. Only One Works.
February 20, 2015
Sam Eifling
This Scruffy Animated Short About a Blue-Collar Pig Should Win the Oscar
February 19, 2015
Sarah Marshall
Why Do So Many Women "Act Ugly" in Pursuit of an Oscar?
From 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf' to 'Gone Girl.'
February 18, 2015
Dominic Green
This Oscar-Nominated Biopic Is An Act of Anachronistic Class Warfare
February 17, 2015
Ethan Gates
Why Are All of Hollywood's Leading Men So Old?
February 13, 2015
Sam Eifling
Estonia's Oscar Nominee, 'Tangerines,' Is The Anti-'American Sniper'
February 12, 2015
Michael J. Agovino
I Spent Four Years Trying to Get My Book Optioned for a Movie. All I Got Were Two Belgian Waffles.
The first thing the producer said to me: “We’re gonna get you out of that studio apartment.”
February 11, 2015
Elaine Teng
This Argentine Director Has Accomplished What Scorsese and Woody Couldn't
February 10, 2015
Ethan Gates
Oscar-Nominated 'Timbuktu' Shows the Terrors of Life Under Islamist Extremism
February 9, 2015
Ethan Gates
The Oscar-Nominated Film Hollywood Loves, But the Russian Government Hates
February 6, 2015
Elaine Teng
Is the Foreign Film Oscar Corrupt and Pointless?
May 3, 2014
David Thomson
'Ida' Is a New Masterpiece of Polish Cinema

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