That's a Wrap on the 92nd Oscars

The swiftest Oscar season we've personally ever experienced has come and gone. When we first started watching the Oscars in Ye Olden Times of the 1980s as a kid they were in mid April on Monday nights. Yes, mid-April (!!!) on Monday nights (!!!). Herewith everything we wrote about Hollywood's most recent High Holy Night to close the party down. 

Overview
Winners and Immediate Takeways
Podcast: Oscar Night in Review
New Oscar Trivia
Oscar Charts
The Times are Changing - Oscar Inclusivity

Specifics
The Tuxes and Gowns
Ranking the Musical Numbers
Ranking the Acceptance Speeches
Ranking the Acting Clips 
Little Women's Costume Win
Embroidered Fashion Statements
Top Five Presenters
Backstage Oscar Photos
Colin Jost or Brad Pitt?
Chanting for Parasite 

Related to the Big Night...
If you want to honor Judy 
Foreign movies after Parasite
Actors playing Actors (and winning gold) 
Justice for Horror Movie costumes
The decade in Best Actress fashion
What's next for the Oscar winners?
Directing actors to nominations
Honorary Oscar Speeches: Geena, Wes, David, Lina

Nominee Interviews
For Sama directors
Joker costume designer
The Irishman cinematographer
Frozen 2 songwriters 
Avengers, Lion King, and Rise of Skywalker visual effects

COMING NEXT TO THE FILM EXPERIENCE?
We'll wrap up the 2019 film year over the next few days by completing the Film Bitch Awards and then, after a short break, return fresh-faced and ready for the 2020 film year (already in progress) with the return of all your favourite series including the Supporting Actress Smackdown. And we'll probably have some "best of decade" fun too now that the 2010s have wrapped. 

Film Bitch Awards - Traditional Categories Complete!

By now you've seen the long delayed top ten list and now the "traditional" (aka Oscar parallel) part of the Film Bitch Awards is complete with the addition of all four acting categories. If you'd like to see my 'alternate ballot' so to speak, that's there though are more "fun" categories to come since we'll try to wrap up the whole film year by NEXT weekend.

But first, THE OSCARS. TONIGHT. Here are the predictions and the nomination index if you're following along. 

Nathaniel's Top 19 of 2019

by Nathaniel

Better late than never. And since we're of the calendar-denying opinion that each film year doesn't really end until Oscar night, we're not too late. (Rationalization is a useful skill, isn't it?). Still what is a calendar? What is a year? Distributors and filmmakers can't seem to stay on schedule either. Of this year's top nineteen, five are out-of-time, with four premiering at festivals way back in 2018 and one still waiting around to show its captivating face (though its here due to its qualifying release). However you define 2019 is up to you. These 19 pictures are how I define it.

If you see them, which I hope you will, they'll take you from ramshackle abodes in the mountains of Macedonia and cave-homes in Spain to an architectural wonder in Seoul and even past the rings of Jupiter. They'll trap you, tripping, in an empty school with house music throbbing or drop you in Dakar where the ocean is ever roaring with its promise and its ghosts. Socioeconomic anxiety permeated the cinema this past year, which is no surprise given the world we're living in. Though many of the top 19 spoke directly to the now, they weren't always "modern" in the literal sense. Our cinematic time travelling stretched from third century China through the Civil War era in New England to Hollywood in the summer of '69 and  the stubbornly vague "near future" of science fiction...

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Awards Season (and TFE) Calendar - The Final Stretch

It's the final month+ of awards mania and we'll have final Oscar nom predictions up shortly. But what a busy weekend it already is... 

Globe Drama winner / Oscar hopeful 1917 just expanded into wide release, France's Oscar finalist Les Miserables opened in limited release (banking on a nomination Monday, no doubt). For home viewing Best Picture hopeful Joker and Oscar longshot-in-a-couple-of-categories The Lighthouse both just hit Blu-Ray. New to streaming is the Florence Pugh showcase horror film MidSommar on Amazon Prime, while action spectacle John Wick Parabellum (mysteriously not nominatd for stunts at SAG) arrives on HBO. But here's what's still to come this season... 

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HAPPY NEW YEAR, EVERYONE!

Though the film year doesn't really end until Oscar night (you know it's true!) here are some cinematic dreams that we have for 2020 on this special night/morning...

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