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Monday, January 20, 2020 at 9:14AM 
Between all the long-time gone Oscar nominees and Brad Pitt & Jennifer Aniston's double win reunion of sorts at the SAG Awards, we really have been time-travelling this awards season!
Brad Pitt, Jennifer Aniston, SAG Sunday, January 19, 2020 at 10:50PM by Nathaniel R
It's SAG night. Let's jump right in...
Christina Applegate got here SAG card in the 70s on an indie film. She doesn't remember what it was (yeah, right) but everyone was "really really high". Cynthia Erivo played a shepherd -- "Everyone lauded my performance." she was hooked at five years old. Eugene Levy dreamed of being the next Mr Whipple but goes on and on in a funny bit. They are actors! (We always love that corny intro.)
Levy and (hot/gay) Son present Male Actor, Comedy Series for which, inexplicably, neither of them is nominatd. The statue goes to awards magnet Tony Shalhoub in Marvelous Mrs Maisel
Wednesday, January 8, 2020 at 3:33PM 
Award events where the winners have already been announced have a particular way about them. The speeches are mostly prepared before, and the winners - or their publicists and the people behind their movies - have a say in who gets to present them with the award. Last night the New York Film Critics Circle presented their 2019 awards and here are some of the presenter / winner pairings and why perhaps they’ve been chosen.
Yahya Abdul Mateen / Lupita Nyong’o…. He played her dad in flashbacks in Us
Claire Denis / Mati Diop …. Diop was in Denis’ 35 Shots of Rum...
Monday, January 6, 2020 at 7:10PM by Nathaniel R
Men's fashion continues to be a bit more interesting than it was in previous decades though it's hard to fault a dapper classic tux. Herewith some men who caught the eye on Globes night.
Let's play a variation on do dump or marry. You can meet one of them for a drink at the bar, nab one for a quick selfie, and take one home in your limo. Who is it gonna be and why?
Friday, November 15, 2019 at 6:15PM All Oscar charts are being updated over the next four days but we started with Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor because there are so many questions haunting us. So go ahead and answer the following quandaries if you can...?
1. Can Tom Hanks finally break his strange Oscar curse?
Before anyone had seen A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood he was a lock "on paper" in Best Actor. But the movie turned out to not be a biopic at all but something far more creative and we'd argue more successful than a biopic would have been, in which Mr. Rogers is more of a symbol and catalyst for another man's journey. It's a gorgeous movie but the switcheroo from expectations to reality will likely throw some Oscar voters as well as general moviegoers. Hanks has been delivering better performances of late than the kind he used to win Oscars for but AMPAS hasn't nominated him in 19 years. Should we expect that they'll continue that "you already got yours" cold shoulder rather than be predicting him?
