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Last Night’s Academy Awards Ceremony and the Success of ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’ is an Important Lesson for Future Oscar Prognostication
A lot of important things happened last night at the Academy Awards. We saw winners in categories that we’d never seen before. A film and a studio dominated in a way we’ve never seen. Surprising movies went home empty-handed. Beyond all of that, the way we predict the Oscars may well have changed. That’s a […] More
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Sunday Scaries: Which Future Oscar Contenders Should You Be Scared Of?
Note: Topics of self-harm and abuse are discussed in this piece. Two years ago, I reflected on how Parasite continued an interesting trend among movies that win Best Picture during presidential election years: “How it works is this: if the most recent winner of the Best Picture Academy Award is optimistic, hopeful, old-fashioned in its […] More
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On the Controlled Chaos of the Best Supporting Actress Race
In a year marked by awards season surprises and split decisions amongst major voting bodies, three of the four performance categories have been kept open heading into Oscar weekend. While Best Actress and Best Actor have become two-way races between Michelle Yeoh and Cate Blanchett, and Austin Butler and Brendan Fraser, respectively, this leaves Best Supporting Actress as one of the […] More
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Ode to the Oscar Nominees Soon to Go Home Empty-Handed
Come Sunday evening, we’re going to know who and what will be the latest crop of Oscar winners. Of course, that also means that the Academy Awards will also be chock-full of artists and films that go home empty-handed. Today. I wanted to take a moment and pay tribute to the movies and performers who […] More
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Sunday Scaries: Hopefully ‘Cocaine Bear’ Inspires More Outrageous Horror Comedies
The Sunday Scaries are upon us once again! Yes, as the weekend concludes, most of us feel an oncoming sense of anticipatory dread about the week ahead. Anxiety about work manifests itself into a feeling that’s known as the Sunday Scaries. However, we at Awards Radar are here to combat that, by taking back the […] More
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Why Michelle Yeoh Should Win the Academy Award for Best Actress
Joey’s right on both counts: there are three up-in-the-air, far-from-settled acting races this season, and that is unambiguously a great development that should be the norm instead of the exception. I will always find it incredibly hard to believe in any near-unanimous consensus from an overwhelming majority of the various guilds and critics groups across the country […] More
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Ranking the Films in the ‘Creed’ / ‘Rocky’ Franchise
There was never supposed to be a Rocky franchise. We all know the story of how the underdog boxing drama was a long shot to even get made, let alone become an Oscar winner. Of course, we also know how the small-scale story became a series of increasingly cartoonish blockbuster tales. What makes it even […] More
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in Community, Editor, Op-ed, Oscars, Prediction Pieces
Three of the Four Acting Categories Are Going Down to the Wire (And That’s A Good Thing for Oscar)
Now here’s something we don’t get every awards season. Three of the four Acting categories at the Academy Awards are basically photo finishes. There are tight races in the below the line categories, but above the line, these three are basically at pick-em status. Throw in neither of the Screenplay races being sewn up and […] More
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A Brand New Ranking of the Marvel Cinematic Universe After ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’
*As you may well have figured out, this article/list is updated and slightly tinkered with to include the new release this week of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania* For the first list, click here, while the second one is here, the third one is here, and the most recent prior one is here. In conjunction with Ant-Man and the […] More
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Sunday Scaries: Horror Movie Oscar Snubs This Year
The Sunday Scaries are upon us once again! Yes, as the weekend concludes, most of us feel an oncoming sense of anticipatory dread about the week ahead. Anxiety about work manifests itself into a feeling that’s known as the Sunday Scaries. However, we at Awards Radar are here to combat that, by taking back the […] More
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Sunday Scaries: Horror Films That Played At Sundance (Revisited)
The Sunday Scaries are upon us once again! Yes, as the weekend concludes, most of us feel an oncoming sense of anticipatory dread about the week ahead. Anxiety about work manifests itself into a feeling that’s known as the Sunday Scaries. However, we at Awards Radar are here to combat that, by taking back the […] More
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The Best of the 2023 Sundance Film Festival
Well, that’s now a wrap on the 2023 Sundance Film Festival for me! This only marks my fourth year fully covering it overall, with one year almost a decade ago being in person, as well as the last two years from home. Of course, last year wound up going that route at the last minute, […] More
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