Congratulations, Iain Canning, Emile Sherman and Gareth Unwin for The King’s Speech.

As last year, I only just finished watching all of the Best Picture nominees. Since I haven’t missed a single Academy Awards broadcast in years, and taking into account that watching the Academy Awards without actually having seen the films and the performances is somewhat pointless, I have spent the last week catching up on [...]

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 [...]

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!