Don’t Look Up (Movie)
Here’s How Each Best-Picture Nominee Could Win an Oscar
But significant year-end support from critics’ groups helped “Drive My Car” crash the Oscar race, where it claimed nominations for picture, director, adapted screenplay and international feature. Hollywood doesn’t know Hamaguchi as well as it got to know the “Parasite” auteur Bong Joon Ho during that film’s prepandemic Oscar season, so multiple wins may be […]
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Who Will Be Nominated for the Oscars? Here Are Our Projections.
Ask me about the best-actress race in an hour, and I might have an entirely different lineup for you. I feel fairly bullish on Kidman, Colman and Gaga, but there are so many feasible contenders vying for those last two spots that I keep tearing up my projections and starting anew. Hudson and Jessica Chastain […]
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Producers Guild Nominations Keep ‘Dune’ in Play
Is this a best-picture preview? The Producers Guild of America announced its 10 nominees for best feature film on Thursday, and the group is considered one of the strongest signs of where the Oscar wind is blowing: Over the last three years, only one eventual best-picture nominee (“The Father”) made it into the best-picture lineup […]
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Can Works Like ‘Don’t Look Up’ Get Us Out of Our Heads?
Next month, Hulu will premiere the mini-series “Pam & Tommy,” a fictionalized account of the release of Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee’s personal sex tape, which was stolen from their home in 1995 and sold on what was then called the “World Wide Web.” The show presents the tape as helping the web become more […]
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SAG Award Nominations 2022: The Complete List, Snubs and Surprises
Will Smith, “King Richard” Denzel Washington, “The Tragedy of Macbeth” Cumberbatch, Garfield, Smith and Washington are all widely expected to repeat at the Oscars, setting up a real clash of the titans for the win. But it’s a big shocker to see Javier Bardem here for his spirited performance as Desi Arnaz in “Being the […]
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Hollywood Turns Up Star Power in Search of Audiences
“Stars matter more than ever,” said Bryan Lourd, the Creative Artists superagent who orchestrated the “Knives Out” deal. “When stars meet material that is their fastball, it cuts through all the noise.” There are other explanations for the barrage. In a severely disrupted marketplace, stars are seeking safety in numbers; no one person can be […]
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‘Don’t Look Up’ Review: Tick, Tick, Kablooey
Movies love to menace Earth. It’s human nature. In some of the most plausible doomsday flicks — “Meteor,” “Deep Impact” and “Armageddon” — a big space rock threatens annihilation. Usually, if not always happily, someone finally comes to the rescue, though that isn’t the case in the 1951 film “When Worlds Collide.” Before it makes […]
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