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The Latest Podcast #139: Best Films of TIFF 2023
The Latest Podcast #30: The Underrated Movie Awards 2021

Jesse Nussman and Hunter Heilman decide to give out their own awards to the performances and movies that aren’t receiving the same level of recognition.

7 Categories The Academy Awards Should Consider
7 Categories The Academy Awards Should Consider

Clement Tyler Obropta looks at the need for diversity and inclusion within the Academy Awards through seven new categories the Oscars should consider.

COVEN Film Festival Award Winners
COVEN Film Festival Award Winners

In only its second year, COVEN Film Festival has burst onto the San Francisco film scene, packing a bounty of women-helmed films into a single weekend.

The Emmys 2019: HBO VS. Netflix Face-Off Continues

Rahul Patel reviews the 2019 Emmys ceremony, considering the highlights and surprises of the night.

The 2019 Award Season Awards
The 2019 Award Season Awards

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the inaugural 2019 Awards Season Awards where we recap the highs and lows of the year.

The All-Decade Oscars
The Oscars Keep Trying To Put A Bandage On A Broken Leg

After last night’s Oscars ceremony, we examine just how the Academy has struggled with their identity these past few years, now more than ever.

We Need to Talk About Lynne Ramsay
We Need to Talk About Lynne Ramsay

Lynne Ramsay has been honored and recognized by critics and awards around the world. So why does it seem as though Hollywood refuses to recognize her incredible work?

The Nominated Film You May Have Missed: WINTER'S BONE
The Nominated Film You May Have Missed: WINTER’S BONE

Not only the birth of star Jennifer Lawrence, Winter’s Bone is also a gritty, eagerly grim look at small-town, poverty-stricken America.

Film Inquiry Podcast Episode 20: The Kubrick Cast
Film Inquiry Podcast Episode 2: Oscars Breakdown

For Episode #2, Jay and Mike discuss their reactions to the nominees, snubs, and other silly Oscars related topics as they predict who will win and who they think should win.

The Nominated Film You May Have Missed: A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
The Nominated Film You May Have Missed: A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE

With masterful performances and finely tuned direction, A Streetcar Named Desire is one of the great adaptations of a play in cinema history.

World of Tomorrow
2016 Oscar Nominated Animated Short Films: On Sad Bears, Cosmonauts and Hindu Superheroes

It is always nice to visit the short films that people work so hard on but you never really think about viewing. It is not until the Oscars that these films get any mainstream attention, and that is one of the best things the Oscars provides to filmmakers. This year’s nominees are strong, featuring sad bears, old men who desperately want hand-drawn animation to survive, clumsy cosmonauts, Hindu superheroes, and some brilliant sci-fi.

Body Team 12 documentary
2016 Oscar Nominated Documentary Shorts: On War, Religion, History, Disease And The Justice System

Long maligned no matter the medium, the short film is often seen merely as a launching pad for bigger and better things. However, for documentarians, the short is almost the primary form, as it takes a lot of time, funding and quality footage to come up with a feature-length documentary worthy of release. Thus, for documentary, the short is the rule rather than the exception, and the field is stacked with quality, potent films, more or less unhampered by typical commercial expectations.

Spotlight
What Is Awards Bait?

“Awards bait.” The phrase is bandied around a lot this time of year in the run up to the Oscars. But what exactly is it?

Chi-Raq
Diversity, Hollywood, And Awards Season

The outcry against this year’s vanilla list of contenders for the 2016 Academy Awards is reverberating across the country with Spike Lee and Will and Jada Pinkett Smith boycotting Hollywood’s most prestigious fete of the year. Even Mark Ruffalo, nominated for Spotlight, considered joining the boycott before ultimately opting to attend the award ceremony. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences made an announcement on Friday regarding new diversity initiatives, but I would hardly say that they’re ‘leading’ the industry by placing some restrictions on lifetime voting and finally attempting some diversity recruiting.

The Danish Girl
Oscar Guilt: Why The Academy Rewards Those Who ‘Act Out’ Diversity

As another Hollywood award season gathers momentum, so too do its accompanying controversies and questions. Last year’s Academy Awards were remembered as much for the hashtag #OscarsSoWhite as they were for any of the achievements of film’s apparent best and brightest. This, coming the year after 2014’s Oscars host Ellen DeGeneres knowingly quipped before the Best Picture award was announced that: