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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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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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The Third Annual Awards Radar Awards (Part One): The Best Performances of 2022
Wow. Welcome to the end of the year! With only a few days left in 2022, it’s time to start giving out some prizes. Today, we kick off the Third Annual Awards Radar Awards, also known as the Joey Awards (because, as mentioned last year and the year before, when you own a site, you […] More
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Rooney Mara to Go Lead for ‘Women Talking’ With the Rest of the Cast Supporting
Hot on the heels of Universal making a pair of interesting category calls with their ladies in The Fabelmans and She Said, MGM/United Artists is at it as well. In a piece detailing what they’re also planning for Bones & All and Till, we now know how they’re going to be campaigning Women Talking. Apparently, […] More
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Zoe Kazan to Campaign in Lead, Carey Mulligan to Go Supporting for ‘She Said’
Some breaking Oscar campaign news to report. Last week at the New York Film Festival, Awards Radar editor Joey Magidson saw and raved about She Said. You can see his review of the movie here, which he called brilliant and proclaimed “She Said is a tribute not just to doing the hard work of journalism, but […] More
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Michelle Williams to Compete for Lead Actress Oscar Nomination
The actress was previously considered as the frontrunner for the Best Supporting Actress Oscar this year. More
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The Top 25 Best Actress Winners So Far (Updated)
Believe it or not, the penultimate installment of this series is here, folks. As a reminder, this is a tradition I’ve been keen on for years. Yes, I’m ranking the new crop of Academy Award winners. For nearly all of the Oscar categories, you’ll see me list the top 25 recipients of that prize. Sometimes, […] More
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The Best Actress Race Has Chosen Chaos This Season!
Folks, do we have a Best Actress race or what? Much like last year, things have evolved in such a way as to make the competition for the Academy Award truly a five horse race (even if last year was more a three or perhaps four horse one). Oscar voters have absolutely no frontrunner to […] More
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Are We Looking At Trouble Ahead for the Best Actress Race?
The 2014 Oscar race is remembered for many things—albeit the Academy as a whole would like to forget. This was the first of two consecutive years without a person of color amongst the acting nominees. And adding to their troubles only one of the Best Actress contender’s performance was in a film nominated for Best […] More
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The Top 25 Best Actress Winners So Far
The penultimate installment of this series is here, folks. As a reminder, this is a tradition I’ve been keen on for years. Yes, I’m ranking the new crop of Academy Award winners. For nearly all of the Oscar categories, you’ll see me list the top 25 recipients of that prize. Sometimes, our newest winner will […] More
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in News
Gotham Awards Introduce Gender Neutral Awards Categories
After years of debate regarding acting categories at awards shows, the Gotham Awards are the first domino to fall. This year The Gotham Film & Media Institute introduced a sweeping change to replace their Best Actor and Actress categories with awards for Outstanding Lead and Supporting Performances. According to the institute’s press release, performances will […] More
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in Op-ed
Before the Gold: Best Leading Actress
This month, we’re taking a look at this year’s Oscar nominees and digging into their past work to find hidden gems that you may have overlooked, or specific credits that may have influenced their Oscar-nominated work this year. The Best Leading Actress this year is one of the most entertaining, unpredictable races we’ve seen in… […] More
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