Now with nominations finally announced for the 88th Annual Academy Awards, Gold Derby’s Tom O’Neil and I are ready to engage in our first Oscar Prediction Smackdown as we take a stab at <img class="alignleft wp-image-1201437676" src="https://s0.wp.com/wp-content/themes/vip/plugins/lazy-load-0.7/images/1x1.trans.gif" a…

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Bridge Of Spies

Deadline spoke to both Marc Platt and Kristie Macosko Krieger, two of the producers on Best Picture nominee Bridge Of Spies and both first-time nominees. “I got woken up by my phone buzzing this morning, but, to be fair, I left it on my bed on…

Welcome to the tightest Oscar race in years. That fact was made clear this morning when four films put themselves in a position to actually take it all, an unusually high number of movies with a real chance to win Best Picture: The Revenant, The Big Short, Spotlight and yes, wait for it, Mad Max: Fury Road. These are…

Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs was diplomatic but clearly disappointed when I spoke to her at this morning’s Oscar nominations about the omission of African American-driven films like Straight Outta Compton, Concussion and Beasts Of No Nation. “Of course I am disappointed, but <img class="alignleft…

UPDATE with studio rankings: 20th Century Fox’s The Revenant led all films with 12 nominations today as the 88th Oscar nominations were announced. It marked a strong showing by Fox, which also landed seven noms for Ridley Scott’s The Martian, three for specialty label Fox Searchlight’s Brooklyn, one for Joy’s Jennifer…

No Best Director nomination for Ridley Scott for The Martian and no Best Adapted Screenplay for Aaron Sorkin for Steve Jobs this morning? Shockers all round as these guys were seen as sure things for this year's Oscars. Add to that snubs for Steven Spielberg, Jane Fonda, Straight Outta Compton, Quentin Tarantino and…

Fox’s Leonardo DiCaprio frontier thriller The Revenant and Warner Bros/Village Roadshow’s wild ride Mad Max: Fury Road led nominations this morning for the 88th Oscars. The list revealed at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences had a healthy mix of the expected and surprises as the awards season has…

The 88th Oscar nominations are being announced this morning at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. At 5:30 AM PT Guillermo del Toro and Ang Lee are set to reveal the crafts categories, with John Krasinski and Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs unveiling the…

Oscar season is in full swing, but what about offering awards to the unbelievable decades of persistence, ingenuity and overall struggle that went into many of these year-end films? We've come up with our own superlatives to…

Many have said 2012 has been the most remarkable year for movies in the Oscar race in a very long time. The dense list of quality contenders makes for quite a race, and it's <img class="alignright size-full wp-image-395066" title="Awardsline_logo__120601003020-200x28" src="https://s0.wp.com/wp-content/themes/vip/plugin…

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