Essays

Very few winners let alone nominees in the Best Documentary Short category are remembered after the Academy Awards ceremony is over. Can you recall even…

No matter what you think about the Academy Awards (and there is whole wide spectrum of thought as to their relevance and accuracy) there is…

Best Animated Feature is the youngest current Academy Award category, first given out in 2002 (to Shrek). It is often one of the easiest to…

At first, it seems like this is an odd year for Best Documentary Feature. A lot of the early favorites weren’t nominated, and some of…

More so than every other category at the Academy Awards, the winners of the Best Foreign Language category are rarely the actual best film. That’s…

2013 Oscar Prediction: Best Film Editing Just yesterday, word spread about a new iPad app that will offer professionals and hobbyists alike around 90% of the…

Best Visual Effects. Over the years, this award has been called a number of things. In 1928, it was given as the award for Best…

Cinematography, like many technical awards, is an incredibly difficult art form requiring years of experience, an encyclopedic knowledge of light and color, and an impossible…

It’s got a new name! Best Art Direction is now Best Production Design, in keeping with the equivalent change of the Academy branch. Of course,…