By John Corrado The 97th Academy Awards were presented tonight, with Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or-winning Anora emerging as the big winner. Baker’s film took home a total of five Oscars, including Best Actress for Mikey Madison, with Baker himself winning the awards for Screenplay, Editing, Director and Picture. This makes him the first person to… Read More Winners of the 97th Academy Awards
By John Corrado It’s Oscar weekend, which means that it’s time for my final predictions. Some of these are off the cuff choices, while others are more thought out based on precursors and my own analysis. As always, I’ve provided commentary on some of the categories, and my own personal choices if I had a… Read More My 2025 Oscar Predictions
By John Corrado The nominations for the 97th Academy Awards have just been announced. Leading the pack is the audacious musical Emilia Pérez with thirteen nominations, a huge win for Netflix. It’s followed closely by The Brutalist and Wicked with ten nominations apiece. The Best Picture lineup is rounded out by Anora, The Brutalist, A… Read More Nominations for the 97th Academy Awards
By John Corrado The 96th Academy Awards were tonight. The big winner was unsurprisingly Christopher Nolan’s box office hit Oppenheimer, which took home a total of seven awards including Best Picture, Best Director (Nolan), Best Actor (Cillian Murphy) and Best Supporting Actor (Robert Downey Jr.). In second place was Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things with four… Read More Winners of the 96th Academy Awards
By John Corrado Oscar weekend is here again, which means that it’s time to carry on my annual tradition of trying to predict the winners. This seems like a pretty easy year to predict with Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer set to sweep the major categories including Best Picture (I personally have it winning eight of its… Read More My 2024 Oscar Predictions
By John Corrado The nominations for the 96th Academy Awards were announced this morning. Leading the pack is Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer with thirteen nominations, followed by Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things with eleven and Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon with ten. First off, I must say that this is a very strong lineup of… Read More Nominations for the 96th Academy Awards
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