By John H. Foote I have a hunch the Oscars will not go as expected this year, the nominations certainly did not. With no real campaign Netflix film All Quiet on the Western Front amassed multiple nominations all well deserved though no directing nomination is a puzzle. I am leaning toward the film taking the…
By John H. Foote Though the field for Best Actor nominees was very sparse this year, those who found their way into the Oscar race were exceptional performances all. Right now it seems to be a three man race with Austin Butler in Elvis, Colin Farrell in The Banshees of Inisherin and Brendan Fraser in…
By John H. Foote Race? Misogyny? These are now being cited as the reasons Danielle Deadwyler in Till and Viola Davis in The Woman Kong were snubbed for Best Actress nominations when the Academy Award nominations were announced. Are they kidding? I am so sick and tired of this ridiculous garbage. How about the obvious…
By John H. Foote Everything Everywhere All at Once seems headed for Oscar glory. The film’s directors, Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, won the Director’s Guild of America on Saturday making the film the frontrunner for the Academy Award on Oscar night. The popular time travel film has defied the odds becoming a fan favourite,…
By John H. Foote Two weeks after the Academy Award nominations were announced and I am still trying to make sense of them. First let me apologize for not writing near as much as I am used to doing. My father is dying of stage 4 liver cancer, and I am his caregiver. Watching this…
By John H. Foote We are a short time before the announcement of the Academy Award nominations for 2022, so I am going to weigh in on my predictions. It has been an usually fine year especially for women on film, the plethora of performances stunning in what has been a landmark year. Along with…
By John H. Foote Frankly I cannot remember when the field of nominees for Best Actor was so slim. 1964? It might be that long ago that the Academy struggled to find five worthy performances to be nominated for an Oscar. Usually, the Best Actor category is filled to the brim and could easily have…
By John H. Foote When Will Smith famously slapped Chris Rock in the face at the Academy Awards last year, he did more damage to his career than he realized at the time. Banned from attending the Oscars for ten years, banned from Academy events, and the object of public ridicule, Smith did publicly apologize…
By John H. Foote With the postponement of Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, taking Leonardo Di Caprio out of contention for Best Actor, and Will Smith having no chance for Emancipation given the infamous slap, it is looking like the leanest field of Best Actor nominees since 2001. The performances to be considered…
By John H. Foote The race for the Academy Award for Best Actress will be hotly contested with many worthy performances being left out. Indeed, it is a year in which they could easily expand the category to 10 nominees, and it would still not be enough. With a mixture of previous winners, nominees, and…