Essays

Welcome to our second annual event in which we look to our pets for the last word on Oscar predictions. As you may recall from…

This is it. The big one. The most coveted award in Hollywood. The one only the greatest of the great win. You know the ones…

Since its inception in 2001, the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature has been awarded to a wide range of movies. Though in recent years…

Best Director is a strange category, particularly because of its tenuous relationship to Best Picture. Does it refer to the best cohesive film, under the…

It’s a mediocre year for the Best Documentary – Short Subject category. It had been having a pretty good run, too. The Academy’s recent picks…

Documentaries deserve their own category, not jut in order to spotlight nonfiction films additionally but also separately, because they aren’t easily pit against narrative works.…

Take the entire Best Picture field. They’d be nothing without the powerful visuals crafted by the towering talent of the nominees in this field, as…

Sydney Pollack once likened film editing to sculpting, and he’s (of course) right. The Invisible Art is also like having a 10,000-piece puzzle to solve…

The horse race! The great question! The draw of history! Is there anything more exciting than the uncertainty of not knowing who will take home…