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Feb 22, 2017 · Our resident awards expert predicts who will go home with an Oscar on Sunday night.
1. La La Land (2016) PG-13 | 128 min | Comedy, Drama, Music. 8. Rate. 94 Metascore. While navigating their careers in Los Angeles, a pianist and an actress fall in love while attempting to reconcile their aspirations for the future. Director: Damien Chazelle | Stars: Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, Rosemarie DeWitt, J.K. Simmons.
- Best Picture
- Actor in A Leading Role
- Actress in A Leading Role
- Actor in A Supporting Role
- Actress in A Supporting Role
- Directing
- Writing
- Animated Feature Film
- Foreign Language Film
- Best Documentary Feature
Arrival | Fences | Hacksaw Ridge | Hell Or High Water | Hidden Figures | La La Land| Lion | Manchester By The Sea | Moonlight La La Land is destined to surf on a SoCal sunbeam to the night’s top honors—for a record-tying 14 nominations not to translate into a Best Picture win would be the shock of the evening. But its victory would come at the over...
Casey Affleck (Manchester By The Sea) | Andrew Garfield (Hacksaw Ridge) | Ryan Gosling (La La Land) | Viggo Mortensen (Captain Fantastic) | Denzel Washington (Fences) Casey Affleck has won nearly every award there is to win for his emotionally arresting performance as a Massachusetts janitor who becomes his nephew’s guardian. But there are some who...
Isabelle Huppert (Elle) | Ruth Negga (Loving) | Natalie Portman (Jackie) | Emma Stone (La La Land) | Meryl Streep (Florence Foster Jenkins) Two years after her nomination for Birdman, Emma Stone’s raspy-voiced, fleet-footed aspiring actress (the movie version, that is) has charmed the pants off of Hollywood. But if anyone can pull out an upset, it’...
Mahershala Ali (Moonlight) | Jeff Bridges (Hell Or High Water) | Lucas Hedges (Manchester By The Sea) | Dev Patel (Lion) | Michael Shannon (Nocturnal Animals) Ali imbues his character, Juan, with a paternal tenderness rarely seen in Hollywood’s imagined drug dealers. Though he only appears in the first of the film’s three chapters, his presence loo...
Viola Davis (Fences) | Naomie Harris (Moonlight) | Nicole Kidman (Lion) | Octavia Spencer (Hidden Figures) | Michelle Williams (Manchester By The Sea) After a somewhat controversial decision to campaign Davis in the supporting category—many view her turn as Rose Maxson in Fencesas a leading one—she has been unstoppable on the awards path. She’s swe...
Denis Villeneuve (Arrival) | Mel Gibson (Hacksaw Ridge) | Damien Chazelle (La La Land) | Kenneth Lonergan (Manchester By The Sea) | Barry Jenkins (Moonlight) La La Land recently won Best Feature at the Directors Guild Awards, an honor that has correlated with a Best Director Oscar win, according to FiveThirtyEight, 21 out of the past 25 years. The ...
Hell or High Water (Taylor Sheridan) | La La Land (Damien Chazelle) | The Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos, Epthimis Filippou) | Manchester By the Sea(Kenneth Lonergan) | 20th Century Women(Mike Mills) Though La La Land could certainly steamroll through this category and Taylor Sheridan could sneak out a surprise win, Kenneth Lonergan is the favorite here...
Kubo and the Two Strings | Moana | My Life as a Zucchini | The Red Turtle | Zootopia Zootopia has been widely celebrated since its release last March for transcending the typical Disney message (“Everyone hold hands, kumbaya”) and injecting a children’s movie with smart, subtle commentary on topics like racial profiling and tokenism. All this, whil...
Land of Mine | A Man Called Ove | The Salesman | Tanna | Toni Erdmann This category became the subject of unusual attention when the director of Iranian entry The Salesman, Oscar winner Asghar Farhadi, announced that he wouldn’t attend the ceremony due to Trump’s executive orderrestricting entry of travelers from seven countries, including Iran. An...
Fire at Sea | I Am Not Your Negro | Life, Animated | OJ: Made in America| 13th This is one of those fields that makes you wish they could just make an exception and give everyone a trophy, particularly given the important boost docs can get from awards recognition. Though there’s discussion as to whether a brief qualifying theatrical run qualifies ...
- Eliza Berman
Feb 27, 2017 · Almost 10% of those who voted for this year's awards were first-time voters, and this influx of new members featured more people of color, more women, and more international voters, all of whom...
- Glen Weldon
Feb 26, 2017 · Everyone’s key prediction for the 89th Academy Awards is, of course, that Donald Trump will take quite a kicking. But that’s also a hope: without such podium fireworks, this might well be one...
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- Guardian Film
Feb 25, 2017 · Here's a chance for the Academy to recognize both La La Land and Moonlight by splitting the adapted/original writing awards.
Feb 26, 2017 · Ahead of Sunday's 89th Academy Awards, Associated Press film writers Lindsey Bahr and Jake Coyle share their predictions for a ceremony many expect will be a "La La Land'' sweep. Best Picture.
