One answer away from getting a passing grade on my Oscar winner guesses, despite having seen 49 out of 50 of the nominees. Well, there's...

I've seen every film on this ballot save for Avatar: Fire and Ash , so technically I suppose this is the best-informed about the Oscar n...

 

I'm not sure why I still care. I guess because I love film, even though the Academy Awards have been so terribly flawed for their entire...

  As part of my quest for quantum immortality, I'm watching every movie ever made, which naturally includes every Academy of Motion Pict...

Oof, less than half right! Fail.   

  I know this is late; the Oscar broadcast has already started. But I haven't watched it and I don't know who's already won.  Th...

20 out of 24! That might be my best showing ever. And for the first time in years, I really have very few quibbles about the Academy'...

Here are my best (read: wild) guesses as to which artists go home with Oscars tonight. I'll update after the show is over, which I ma...

SPOILER ALERT...! Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino, 2019) is Tarantino at his gentlest and most reflective, tappin...

Last night I screened Lilies of the Field , a 1963 Best Picture nominee, featuring the performance that earned Sidney Poitier the Best Act...

As readers may recall, I've been working my way through screening all 549* AMPAS Best Picture nominees. I just noticed that while I sti...

I have about 100 more films to go before accomplishing my goal of seeing every movie nominated for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and S...

It's been a while since I last wrote about my quest to see every single film nominated for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sci...

I amuse myself each year by filling in an Oscar ballot to try and guess who might win the Academy Awards. This year the Academy handed out ...

Leaving aside the question of who will win the Best Picture Oscar at tonight's Academy Awards (everyone says it's going to be La La...

On Sunday night I watched The Lion in Winter , the 1968 Best Picture nominee about courtly intrigue in 12th century England. While viewing,...

Steve and Audrey hosted another wonderful Oscar party last night, with an extravaganza of pot luck treats and companionable film trivia a...

In a few hours Sylvia and I will head to the Fitzpatricks' for their annual Oscar Party, and once again I expect to come in second or t...

Way back in 1996, when I was working at the Western Board of Music, someone - I think it may have been board member Carol Mellors - gave me...