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Tuesday, March 10, 2026 at 5:00PM by Nathaniel R
Chalamet may have talked himself out of an Oscar but if he wins for "Marty Supreme", he won't be undeserving
It's finally time -- well, long past time -- to post my own ballots for Best Actress and Best Actor. As with the Supporting categories, I had to first narrow it down to a top twelve which you can see after the jump...
Monday, March 9, 2026 at 8:30PM In the Split Decision series, our writers pair up and face off on an Oscar-nominated movie one loves and the other doesn't. Tonight, CLÁUDIO ALVES and NICK TAYLOR discuss Blue Moon...
CLÁUDIO: Since I'm the one organizing the Split Decision convos, I end up trying to assign everyone at least one film they love, or like, so they have something to defend against the naysayers. Sadly, that usually means I get to fill in the grumpy contrarian roles in most of the volleys I do. Not so this year, since I made sure to assign myself Blue Moon. I caught it at TIFF right after Nouvelle Vague, ready to be disappointed as I was by Linklater's French misadventure. And yet, what I got was one of the director's best films in a while, a text besotted with the musicality of florid verbiage and performances to match. It was love at first sight. I gather your experience was very different. Please share with the class, dear Nick.
NICK: It was not! I really wish Linklater had given Blue Moon the same stylistic care he applied to Nouvelle Vague…
Monday, March 9, 2026 at 9:08AM The Oscar Volley series concludes with Nathaniel R, Nick Taylor, and Abe Friedtanzer talking Best Picture...
Would the DGA 5 have been the Best Picture 5 if there weren't 10?
NICK TAYLOR: Hello hello! We convene here on the precipice of the 98th Academy Awards to discuss its most above-the-line category, Best Picture! Trade’s reporting says One Battle After Another is leading the pack with Sinners hot on its neck. Rather than starting with the frontrunners, let me ask a different question: who do we think would have made this lineup if Best Picture was still only five nominees?
Saturday, March 7, 2026 at 7:34PM by Nathaniel R
Elle Fanning, Conan O'Brien, Youn Yu Jung, and Delroy Lindo did NOT make the nominee list but I loved all four performances just the same.
Dearest readers, I apologize at how long it takes me to do all this but now is the time to finish the Film Bitch Awards. Should be done in the next couple of days! That's probably more exciting for me than for you but what of it?!? Be my Supporting friends and DISCUSS. Before we get to the nominations a quick look at the dozen performances I cherished most in Supporting from men and women...
Saturday, March 7, 2026 at 10:00AM The Oscar Volleys continue. Today, LYNN LEE and NICK TAYLOR discuss the surprisingly stable Oscar race for Best Actress.
Jessie Buckley in HAMNET | © Focus Features
LYNN: At the risk of stating the obvious, Nick, Best Actress has been the most predictable stable of the four acting races by far. Is there a world in which Jessie Buckley doesn’t take this? And are we basically fine with that?
NICK: I mean, where else is there to start? Buckley’s the surest winner of the acting categories, and among a handful of artists (PTA, Ludwig Göransson) who have to know they’re winning the Oscar. I’m not complaining. Buckley’s been delivering ambitious, awards-worthy turns since she debuted with Beast in 2017, and her turn as Agnes is such an ideal use of her screen persona. The practical intelligence, the precise-yet-walloping emotions, the way her characters are so irreducibly themselves that their odd edges and peculiar beliefs doom them to black sheep status even when things are looking their way. She’s incredible, and just because the grieving mother is an easy type for awards groups to notice shouldn’t diminish how powerful her work is in Hamnet...
