A year ago, if you had asked me which film would win the 82nd Academy Awards top-prize, I would have answered that Nine was most definitely one of the contenders. The Weinstein Company had a sure-fire winner on their release schedule. An Academy Award-winning director with a Best Picture musical in his name; a cast [...]

That wonderful time of year has arrived again, when the Academy announces the highest nomination honour in the motion picture industry. Taking into account the rule-book changes they introduced this year, you could say that the nominations are more exciting than last years—however, let’s not stress those changes, and rather focus on the actual nominations. [...]

Would it be much of an overstatement if I would say that Kate Winslet winning the Academy Award for Best Actress (finally) was the best moment of the whole evening? All right, her win and Dustin Lance Black’s acceptance speech for winning Best Original Screenplay for Milk. At both I teared up like a big [...]

And the Academy Award for Best Picture went to… Christian Colson for producing Slumdog Millionaire! Congratulations.

Warning: this article is entirely subjective, contains many spoilers and if you’re a Slumdog Millionaire lover, you’ll probably be insulted. And also, the 81st Academy Awards!

People who know me well, know that I don’t give a crap about New Year’s Day. So what that the year ends on December 31st and begins on January 1st? To me, only one thing marks the beginning of another year of waiting, yearning and building up to greatness: when the Academy Awards have been [...]