Oscars

It's the eve of the 88th Academy Awards, which means we're up to our necks in Oscar prognostication. Will Leo finally nab that Best Actor award? Is Mad Max: Fury Road getting any recognition? And what will host Chris Rock say about another…

With the Oscars coming in less than a week, the time is nigh for Oscar-related thinkpieces and videos, both of the nostalgic variety and the "look at this organization's continued history of racism" variety. While there's been plenty of…

There's been an understandable amount of outrage around this year's Oscars, one that, for the second year in a row, has been criticized for only nominating white actors in each category. What's worse, some films in contention, titles like …

25 years ago, Paris is Burning (Jennie Livingston), screened at Sundance where it won the Grand Jury Prize for best documentary. For many, the film represents an important step of recognition for transgender and queer people of colour. In…

Don't you hate that each year Awards Season seems to creep ever earlier in the calendar year? GOD! Can't you just go one film festival without speculating whether it will be an Oscar contender, or whether it has the legs to survive such an…

Week in Review rounds up the past week in film news in one easy place. Check back this weekend for round-ups for TV and gaming.   Oh Hai Tommy Wiseau. You're making something of a comeback, aren't you? Several months back we reported that…

The experiment has failed. The Oscars simply don't work. And no, I'm not just continuing to vent my frustration over Boyhood losing. For the last six years, The Academy has experimented with a different number of Best Picture nominees,…

In anticipation of the Academy Awards this weekend, Nintendo has come up with its own strange twist on the event. In order to celebrate the 2015 Oscar nominees, they've decide to address who they believe should walk away with one of the…

Is there an Oscar thief on the loose? And if so, where do you pawn those off at? Leo DiCaprio's house? The New York Times reported on Monday that the first Oscar won by Charlie Chaplin, an Honorary award which he won for The Circus in…

One week removed from the Oscar nominations, we’re still recovering from #OscarsSoWhite-gate, and the consensus seems to be that if only the Legos were white instead of yellow they would’ve been nominated after all. But really the…

This year’s Oscar nominations are in, which means a ton of people are making parody posters for several of the nominated films.Below are just some of my personal favourites that I've found over at The Shiznit and at College Humor. Check out…

The Oscar nominations are nearly upon us! Can you feel the excitement in the air? I can tell you’re just buzzing. Perhaps you should be, because however small it is, the announcement of Thursday morning’s Oscar nominations will be a…

If you want to get the trades talking about something other than the Oscars for a little while, consider creating a giant controversy and terrorist conspiracy threat in which a Christmas Day comedy release is completely canceled and gets…

This week at the end of October is the point in the Oscar race where pundits begin spinning their wheels. The festivals are over, the critics’ awards haven’t started yet, and no new movies are arriving, leaving little to actually go on in…

We can debate all day which comic book hero is cooler: DC or Marvel? Superman or Spiderman? Justice League or The Avengers? Batman or anyone who isn't cool enough to be Batman? But it's no question that Marvel has a serious leg-up on DC in…

Fall movie season is right around the corner. This week, we take a look through the slate of movies coming this Fall in search of anything exciting coming from the genre world. Unfortunately, the pickings are slim, with a few movies we're…

With Good Will Hunting surprising audiences in 1997 with its genuine tenderness and sharp wit, the world got to see the dramatic side of Robin Williams that showed itself every now and then. His role of Dr. Sean Maguire, a compassionate…

The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences Thursday announced their annual crop of newly invited Academy members, a grand total of 271 industry individuals, many of whom were major nominees or players in 2013's Oscar race. The list…

Frozen is one of the highest-grossing animated films of all time, raking in over $1 billion worldwide in barely 4 months. If you ignore inflation or re-releases, it is the highest-grossing film from Walt Disney Animation Studios ever. A few…

One of the most well-known awards for film are the Academy Awards. Better known as the Oscars, the awards have grown in stature over the years, with their choices becoming a point of discussion among many film fans in the lead up to, and…