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 [...]

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. [...]