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The Best Scores and Soundtracks of 2021
As I said last year, music is essential to our lives. It’s a core part of the human experience, helping us through it all (especially in trying times like these). Whether it’s your favorite band or what you hear while watching a great movie, music makes life better, plain and simple. When it comes to […] More
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AFI Announces 2021 Award Honors
Awards season is in full swing with the American Film Institute (AFI) announcing their picks for the best of the year in American television and film. The ten honorees for each category are awarded for being “culturally and artistically representative of this year’s most significant achievements of art and the moving image.” As always, it’s […] More
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2021 NYFCC Results Surprise with ‘Drive My Car’
While not always the best predictor for the Oscars, the New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC) is one of the first critics groups to make their picks for the best of the year. The Gotham Awards and National Board of Review have come out with their awards thus far, naming films The Lost Daughter and […] More
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The National Board Of Review Has Revealed its 2021 Winners and ‘Licorice Pizza’ Leads the Way
Moments ago, the National Board Of Review announced their winners for 2021. NBR, as they’re known, often helps to kick off the precursor season, and this year is no exception. Leading the way is Paul Thomas Anderson‘s Licorice Pizza, which took home Best Film, as well as Best Director for Anderson, alongside Breakthrough Performance for […] More
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Box Office Report for the Week of November 24th (Thanksgiving Weekend)
Encanto leads this weekend’s box-office with PTA’s Licorice Pizza delivering a new pandemic record for Indie Films. More
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Awards Radar Community: Those Of You Who Have Now Seen ‘House of Gucci’ or Licorice Pizza’…What Are Your Thoughts?
This weekend, two of the Oscar season’s highest profile titles opened exclusively in theaters. One hit wide release, while the other is trying an old fashioned platform release. They both are made by A-list filmmakers, both of which are directors overdue for an Academy Award. One has a bevy of stars, while the other mixes […] More
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Awards Radar Podcast #62: Joey Spills the Beans to the Gang About ‘Being the Ricardos,’ ‘Don’t Look Up,’ ‘Licorice Pizza,’ and More!
Welcome back to the Awards Radar Podcast. In each episode, Editor Joey Magidson (that’s me!) will be joined by some of the staff of Awards Radar to talk about the latest in film, television, and entertainment in general. The show will obviously have an awards season slant to it, but we won’t forget about other […] More
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Awards Season / Oscar Predictions Update: Will Voters Heed the Warning of ‘Don’t Look Up’ or Can a ‘Licorice Pizza’ Snack Satisfy?
Last week, I checked back in on the status of some of the remaining unseen (or now, formerly unseen) Academy Award hopefuls. That was coming in the shadow of House of Gucci finally screening. Since then, we’ve now also laid eyes on several other big Oscar contenders. Just yesterday, I saw Don’t Look Up, with […] More
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Film Review: ‘Licorice Pizza’ Finds Paul Thomas Anderson At His Most Charming and Romantic (With a Revelatory Alana Haim)
Depending on who you are, you probably have a different type of Paul Thomas Anderson film that you gravitate towards. Those in one camp love his earlier work, evocative of the likes of Robert Altman and Martin Scorsese. Then, we have folks in another camp, who prefer the more recent and more formal offerings, where […] More
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Awards Season / Oscar Predictions Update: Will the Academy Set Up Shop at ‘The Tender Bar’ or Will They Make a ‘House of Gucci’ Appointment?
About a month ago, I made the whole focus of an Oscar predictions update the musings about unseen contenders. That Academy Award-centric article is here, but it’s funny how quick things change. As you’ll see below, almost all of those Oscar hopefuls have now screened, with those that haven’t set up with dates to unveil […] More
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On the Radar… (November Edition)
Happy November, everyone! Like the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday, we’re about to get stuffed with a full smorgasbord, a seven-course meal with plenty of leftovers, if you will, of Marvel movies, wide releases, streaming releases, major Oscar contenders for pretty much all categories (including the arguable Best Picture frontrunner and inarguable Best Lead Actress and Best […] More
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Awards Season / Oscar Predictions Update: The Ballad of the Unseen Contender
The deeper you get into an awards season, the less we have of the unseen Academy Award contender. I’ve long called those titles X factors (trust me, I know I didn’t coin the phrase), and they shake up the race just as often as they land with a thud. For every late breaking player like […] More