After months of speculation, analysis and anticipation, the 2019 Oscar nominations will finally be announced in the wee hours of the morning on Tuesday, January 22. And we think the musical …
Is “A Star Is Born”‘s Best Picture Oscar campaign about to get new life? The romance musical is the odds-on favorite to win Best Picture at Saturday’s Producers Guild…
At this weekend’s Critics’ Choice Awards, there was a shocking tie for Best Actress between Lady Gaga (“A Star is Born”) and Glenn Close (“The Wife”). …
Will “Mary Poppins” return to the Oscar race for the first time in 54 years? The 1964 original snagged 13 nominations including Best Picture, and it won five prizes. Now “M…
No. 2 has become No. 1. Christian Bale, who’s already won a Golden Globe and two Critics’ Choice Awards for his performance as Dick Cheney in “Vice,” is now the Best …
“A Star Is Born” leads the Screen Actors Guild Awards with four nominations and is one of 18 films to get four bids. But might it walk away empty-handed? If it does, it’d b…
If Gold Derby’s racetrack odds are correct, get ready to see acceptance speeches on Oscar night from two of the year’s biggest awards magnets: Glenn Close and Lady Gaga. Close le…
“Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward.” — Carol Channing If anyone has heard her share of both gaffaws and clappin…
By all accounts, Bradley Cooper (“A Star Is Born”) should be walking away with the DGA prize for Best First-Time Director. The actor-turned-auteur won rave reviews for helming an…
We just heard from the Visual Effects Society with their nominees for the best of the year. These wizards of wonder were the 12th of 13 guilds and societies to weigh in with their choices fo…
The Oscar for Best Original Song looks like it might be a cakewalk for Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper‘s “Shallow” from “A Star is Born.” But they face a tougher c…
Norah Jones did it in 2003. U2 did it in 2006. Adele did it in 2012 and 2017. Bruno Mars just did it in 2018. But it seems like it should be very hard to do. I’m talking about achievin…
Faye Dunaway will celebrate her 78th birthday on January 14, 2019. The actress has had a dynamic 57-year career on Broadway, television and of course in film. She shows no signs of slowing d…
So far the awards season has been a real nail-biter, but Bradley Cooper is holding on to the lead in our predictions for both Best Picture and Best Actor for “A Star is Born.” An…
The Oscar race for Best Picture is still up in the air, especially after the Golden Globes, which picked “Bohemian Rhapsody” for Best Film Drama over presumed Globes and Oscar fa…
It’ll be a battle between two former “American Hustle” co-stars for Best Actor at Sunday’s Critics’ Choice Awards. Christian Bale (“Vice”) and Bradl…
I saw a star being born and it wasn't Lady Gaga. It happened on a dance floor early on in Spike Lee's "BlacKkKlansman" when Ron Stalling, an undercover cop who — with the help of a whi…
Lin-Manuel Miranda just earned his second Golden Globe nomination for playing Jack the lamplighter in “Mary Poppins Returns.” Already an Oscar nominee for writing the song “…
Four of our five predicted nominees for Best Costume Design at the Oscars — “Black Panther,” “The Favourite,” “Mary Poppins Returns” and…
Before she won at the Globes on Sunday, Glenn Close was stuck in third place on our Best Actress Oscar chart. She was way behind the frontrunner Lady Gaga (“A Star is Born”) and …
In the lead up to the Oscars, the BAFTAs is one of the key precursor prizes. When considering how a film has fared, we assign 4 of our 35 boxes to the nominations by the British academy. Onl…
“A Star Is Born” costume designer Erin Benach‘s focus was on creating “a character arc” for Ally (Lady Gaga), a down-on-her-luck waitress who becomes a singi…
Happy 64th birthday to Jonathan Kimble Simmons, aka J.K. Simmons! The Academy Award-winning actor first came to fame as a song-and-dance man on Broadway, then segued to a celebrated career i…
Three years ago, I predicted that British actor Mark Rylance would win the supporting actor Oscar for his performance in Steven Spielberg's "Bridge of Spies," which he did. People had said I…
Lady Gaga has a champagne problem next month. She’s nominated for five Grammys including Record of the Year and Song of the Year for “Shallow,” her “A Star is Born…