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2023 Academy Awards, Award Ceremonies

2023 Academy Awards Predictions — Best Director

February 25, 2023 Alex Brannan Leave a comment

These are our 2023 Oscar predictions for Best Director, part of a series on this year’s awards. Check out full predictions in all Oscar categories.

Best Director

Martin McDonagh — The Banshees of Inisherin
Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert — Everything Everywhere All at Once
Steven Spielberg — The Fabelmans
Todd Field — Tár
Ruben Ostlund — Triangle of Sadness

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2018 Golden Globes

2018 Golden Globes Predictions – Best Director

December 11, 2017 Alex Brannan Leave a comment

The narrative of the Golden Globes director category may end up being more about who was not included over who was. It was a deep well this year, with a lot of strong films coming from new and veteran directors. Yes, it is sad not to see newcomers Greta Gerwig and Jordan Peele in the mix. Yes, it is surprising, yet wholly explainable, to see Ridley Scott here. Yes, Luca Guadagnino should have wound up in the top five.

But we live with the cards we’re dealt. If anything, the snubs make the prediction easier in the Best Director category.

The Nominees – Best Director

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2018 Golden Globes

2018 Golden Globes Predictions – Best Screenplay

December 11, 2017 Alex Brannan Leave a comment

The Best Screenplay category of the 2018 Golden Globes is a stacked category. The easiest way to predict this one might be to look to other categories.

The Nominees – Best Screenplay

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Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) Movie Review

November 24, 2017 Alex Brannan Leave a comment

In Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, a title so laborious and specific that it can’t help but get stuck in your head, Mildred Hayes (Frances McDormand) rents out three billboards (they haven’t been used in years, not since the highway went up) and plasters a notice up on them. Black on red. A question aimed at Police Chief Willoughby (Woody Harrelson) asking for justice for Mildred’s dead daughter.

A confrontational pitch-black comedy about reactionary culture and life-altering emotional extremity, Three Billboards delivers one of the Continue reading Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) Movie Review →