Gurus of Gold - current predictions
Cartoon Brew - talks to the directors of all the animated short nominees
Movie City News - David Poland thinks the Oscar season is not too short but not short enough. Eeep! We wildly disagree since the shortened season made voters even lazier than usual.
More after the jump including Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Under the Skin, Lee Grant, and List-Mania...
Shorts Charts - we’ve finally gotten these charts up to date. Now to cram in all these minis films before the big night
Today’s Video
Got 28 minutes? If so here’s a mini-documentary on the making of Best Picture nominee Once Upon a Time ...in Hollywood selling it as “a love letter to making movies” which it, of course, partially is.
Off Oscar
Vanity Fair an interview with the legendary Lee Grant. WHY ISN'T SHE PRESENTING AT THE OSCARS?!? GET WITH IT AMPAS
Cartoon Brew -animation industry responds to Kobe Bryant’s death. He of course won an Oscar writing and producing the animated short Dear Basketball
Towleroad - The Superbowl gets its first draq queen commercial: Miz Cracker and Kim Chi star
Deadline Robert Pattinson has officially started shooting The Batman
Coming Soon Lin-Manuel Miranda is making a movie of Jonathan Larsen's stage musical Tick, tick... Boom!
Deadline Here's something we didn't expect: Our #1 film of 2014 Under the Skin has prompted a bidding war for rights to a possible spin-off series
Variety Sony Pictures Classics has bought the gay drama I Carry You With Me out of Sundance
The Guardian Rosie Perez has now testified in the Harvey Weinstein trial
Extra John Karlen, Emmy winner from Cagney & Lacey has died
List-Mania
(You might have seen some of these already but we wanted to share them)
Nick Davis - top 100 of the 2010s, a truly epic read
Queer Review - top 20 LGBTQ films of the decade
IndieWire - various directors pick their favourites of the year. Really interesting stuff. Like the director of John Wick choosing all action pictures… and Little Women. And here’s Bong Joon Ho’s list:
- “First Cow” – Kelly Reichardt
- “The Irishman” – Martin Scorsese
- “Asako 1 & 2” – Hamaguchi Ryuske
- “Marriage Story” – Noah Baumbach
- “Midsommar” – Ari Aster
- “Uncut Gems” – Safdie Brothers
- “Hotel by the River” – Hong Sang Soo
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“Mindhunter” (Season 2) – David Fincher & others
*sniffle* so sad that Mindhunter is over.