Writers Guild Awards Winners Add New Drama to Oscar Race, Cement TV Icons
With Saturday night’s Writers Guild of America Awards, all of the guilds have now spoken– their voters deciding the best written, best directed, best acted and best produced movies of the year. And for the first time in recent memory, there is no clear consensus– which makes the ongoing Oscar race even more interesting than it is when just one or two films and their key talent are considered a lock. For those with short...
Alright, Alright, Alright. Critics Clearly Define Awards Season’s Top Film and Acting Choices
The quirks of this year’s awards season calendar, with the 19th Annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards coming just four days after the Golden Globes and on the eve of the Academy Awards nominations announcement served to cement the favorites and frontrunners heading into the Oscars. Cate Blanchett. Matthew McConaughey. Jared Leto. Lupita Nyong’o. “12 Years a Slave.” “American Hustle.” “Frozen.” All were critical darlings who took the...
Shockers and Satisfaction at the Golden Globe Awards
When it comes to breaking ground in recognizing new television awards royalty, Golden Globes voters have done it again. In a stunning upset—one of the few we accurately predicted here last week—Fox’s “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” was anointed TV’s best comedy, amid a tough field of proven comedic contenders. Not only that, its star, Andy Samberg won enough love of the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. to take the comedy actor prize. It was a good...
Two Historic Dramas Tie for Critics’ Choice Kudos
The Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA) has announced the nominees for The 19th Annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards, quickly putting the 2014 awards season in sharper focus. “12 Years a Slave” and “American Hustle” tie this year with thirteen nominations each. “12 Years a Slave” has been nominated for Best Picture, Best Actor for Chiwetel Ejiofor, Best Supporting Actor for Michael Fassbender, Best Supporting Actress for Lupita...
Up Close and In Depth With the Queens of Anarchy, Katey Sagal and Maggie Siff
It may be the men of “Sons of Anarchy” who suck all of the air in the room when they hold secret meetings in their clubhouse, but it is the women who provide much of the motivation for the adrenalized motorcycle gang action that happens in and around the fictional town of Charming, Calif. Gun running. Drug dealing. Prostitution. Murder. Legitimate businesses to cover them up. It’s all there in creator Kurt Sutter’s edgy...