The Jam Report's annual wrap-up of the best and worst of this year's Oscars....
Attempting to predict the most unpredictable season in recent memory....
Surprises aplenty with this year's Academy Award nominations. While a whole host of nominations went according to plan, there were far more shocks than usual. On the plus side, the majority of these surprises are wonderful, meaning there is far more to celebrate this year than be disappointed by. That makes the unavoidable heart breaks (The Florida Project, sob!) somewhat manageable. So it's time to break down the good, the bad, and the ugly of the 90th Academy Award nominations. THE GOOD As expected, our potential new frontrunner The Shape...
I've said it before of the film industry, and I'll say it again - nobody knows anything. And, in the craziest awards season we've seen in years, that rings especially true when attempting to predict the Academy Award nominations. Nobody really knows how this year is going to play out. Every single category is wildly unpredictable, even more so than usual. That being said, we Oscar prognosticators like to foolishly believe we can somehow read the tea leaves of the precursor season, and decipher how the Academy will...
Awards Season / 02.01.2018
OSCARS WEEKLY – How history works against several Best Picture contenders
Will the past ruin the Best Picture hopes of several contenders?...
The drunk uncle of awards season is upon us....
Will the Academy vote for a film of importance, yet again?...
Awards Season / 06.11.2017
OSCARS WEEKLY – Is the ‘La La Land’ curse changing this year’s Best Picture race?
Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy awards season....
Opinion, Reviews / 21.07.2017
REVIEW – ‘Dunkirk’
That rare time you can genuinely call a piece of cinema a work of art....