Tag: Academy Awards
Are You Surprised A Visual Effects Extravaganza About Paying Your Taxes and Honoring Family Was the Oscar Darling?
Triangle of Sadness never stood a chance as a major Oscar contender, of course. And as a skewering of the rich and a society that [Read More…]
Unlucky Thirteen: Diane Warren, Mainstream Underdog
It was, of course, a more under-the-radar headline from the Oscars, but, nonetheless, an important one. Diane Warren did not win for “Somehow You Do,” [Read More…]
The Reality TV Drama (We’re Talking The Real World: Seattle) of the 2022 Academy Awards
Where does one even begin with Oscar night 2022? Well, the obvious place is with the now infamous exchange that went down between Will Smith [Read More…]
The Tried-and-True Cheap Shot: When Will Men Stop Mocking Bald Women?
Perhaps what’s most useful to note about the scuffle heard ‘round the world at the 2022 Oscars is that it all could have been avoided [Read More…]
“Talk to Me General Schwarzkopf, Tell Me All About It!”
A far cry from the barely ten million viewers tallied for the 93rd Academy Awards this year, the 63rd Academy Awards, in contrast, fetched forty-three [Read More…]
Chadwick Boseman As an NFT Feels Decidedly Black Mirror
Whatever NFTs really are—for no one actually knows their purpose no matter how intricately the reason for them is described—the look of the one created [Read More…]
Juno and Promising Young Woman: What the Most Recent Female Wins for Best Screenplay Have in Common
A woman winning any Academy Award is relatively uncommon. And among the least common is the coveted writing award. For yes, as Joe Gillis cynically [Read More…]
There’s A New WWI Movie in Town, But It’s Still Not A Very Long Engagement
In the realm of World War I movies, there is an extreme paucity of majors in “comparison” to, say, World War II with all of [Read More…]
Joker: The Most Offensive White People Movie at the Oscars Since La La Land
Let us go back to a simpler time. The late summer of 2016. People were still enraged about white male domination, but it hadn’t become [Read More…]
Lina Wertmüller At Last Given Some Overdue Credit With Honorary Oscar at Governors Awards
While an Oscar appears to become increasingly meaningless with each passing year, the sentiment behind it was not lost on veteran Italian filmmaker Lina Wertmüller [Read More…]
