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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced yesterday that seven (7) films remain in competition in the Makeup and Hairstyling category for the 90th Academy Awards. On Saturday, January 6, 2018, all members of the Academy’s Makeup Artists and Hairstylists Branch will be invited to view 10-minute excerpts from each of the seven shortlisted films. Following the screenings, members will vote to nominate three films for final Oscar consideration. Seems that this year there were not many films that qualified for this category and as far as what is happening up-to-today, this category is the first that will not have five nominations. But what puzzles me most is the reason why behind NOT including films like The Shape of Water, Blade Runner 2049 or even Star Wars: The Last Jedi.  Perhaps is because now lines between VFX and makeup blur, especially for us viewers and for those who are trying to guess something in current awards season. The films are listed below in alphabeti...

Yesterday AMPAS announced the shortlist of nine (9) films that advance to the next round of voting in the Foreign-Language Film category.  Ninety-two films had originally been considered in the category. Foreign Language Film nominations are determined in two phases.  The Phase I committee, consisting of several hundred Los Angeles-based Academy members, screened the original submissions in the category between mid-October and December 11.  The group’s top six choices, augmented by three additional selections voted by the Academy’s Foreign Language Film Award Executive Committee, constitute the shortlist. Academy members eligible to participate in the Nominations round of voting in New York, London, Los Angeles and, for the first time, the San Francisco Bay Area, will screen the nine shortlisted films in theaters over a three-day period from Friday, January 12, through Sunday, January 14, with three films screening each day.  Additionally, international members ...

On Monday the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that 10 live action short films will advance in the voting process for the 90th Academy Awards. A record 165 pictures had originally qualified in the category. Members of the Short Films and Feature Animation Branch viewed all the eligible entries for the preliminary round of voting. Short Films and Feature Animation Branch members will now select five nominees from among the 10 titles on the shortlist. Branch screenings will be held in Los Angeles, London, New York and San Francisco in January. Nominations for the 90th Academy Awards will be announced on Tuesday, January 23, 2018. The 10 films are listed below in alphabetical order by title in English. DeKalb Elementary , Reed Van Dyk, USA The Eleven O’Clock , Derin Seale, Australia Facing Mecca , Jan-Eric Mack, Switzerland Icebox , Daniel Sawka, USA Lost Face , Sean Meehan, Australia and Canada My Nephew Emmett , Kevin Wilson, Jr., Naissance d'une étoile  (...

Last night was the awards ceremony with Lady Macbeth wining five awards including Best Actress for Florence Pugh, God's Own Country follows with four awards including Best British Film, The Death of Stalin also with four awards and most interesting, I Am Not a Witch wins 3 awards but remarkable is that film director, Rungano Nyoni wins Best Director and Best Debut Director, an achievement that happens not often, last time was in 2007 with Anton Corbijn for Control. Thanks to BIFA's 2017 nominations became interested in watching Lady Macbeth, a film that I had decided will skip.  I'm grateful to BIFA as was going to skip one of the most outstanding films from 2017, a film with great performances, great tech specs, but, most of all, a great director that could transform a well-known tale into storytelling anew. The end-result is a mesmerizing film, impossible to take off your eyes from the screen from the very first frame until the last one.  All honors here are well-deserved...

Last night the European Academy had their annual awards ceremony and have to admit that enjoyed the show, at least the first half as believe Wim Wenders speech was outstanding and the #MeToo moment was relevant - will take a lot for me to forget what the Polish lady said-. Then there were the clip collages with kudos to the 30th anniversary video which gave me satisfaction as to my viewing pleasure, have seen almost all the movies they shown.  Always homages have nice videos with the honored filmography, but Aleksandr Sukorov video was breathtaking with many well-crafted images from his outstanding oeuvre.  Images from Mother and Son will always move me beyond tears as not often you see such beauty in cinema.  Gorgeous homage to Sukorov. The big winner of the night is The Square by Ruben Östlund which tonight collected 5 awards for a grand total of 6 awards when taking into account those announced earlier.  Ruben Östlund won 2 awards for directing and screenwriter; b...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recently announced that 10 animated short films will advance in the voting process for the 90th Academy Awards. Sixty-three (63) pictures had originally qualified in the category. Members of the Short Films and Feature Animation Branch viewed all the eligible entries for the preliminary round of voting. Short Films and Feature Animation Branch members will now select five nominees from among the 10 titles on the shortlist. Branch screenings will be held in Los Angeles, London, New York and San Francisco in January. Nominations for the 90th Academy Awards will be announced on Tuesday, January 23, 2018. There are some outstanding stories among these shortlisted films, most remarkable is Life Smartphone with story that everyone in the world should see as they surely will identify themselves in any of the situation pictured.  But know this category honors animation plus story, direction and other tech specs and perhaps Chenglin Xie d...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced a few days back that 20 films are in the running in the Visual Effects category for the 90th Academy Awards. Believe 20 films in a shortlist are too-many and understand why many of those films are in list, because visual effects are great -even when many of those films are not that good (lol)- and some go to the outstanding side of the scale. There are a couple of films I haven't seen yet but according to general buzz believe will find a spot among the nominees:  Denis Villeneuve's Blade Runner 2049 and Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water.  Still, you never know in this category as there are too-many super heroes films with spectacular effects, many blockbusters, some flops and then too-few-great films.  Always will hope for great movies to be nominated and to win, but with this not-too-short-shortlist my only hope for a nod is for great Wonder Woman (lol!). The films are listed below in alphabetical order Alie...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that 15 films in the Documentary Feature category will advance in the voting process for the 90th Academy Awards. One hundred seventy films were originally submitted in the category. This is perhaps the most predictable main category for this Academy Awards edition as bet that top award will go to any of these documentaries:  Faces Places, Ex Libris or Last Men in Aleppo. As a matter of fact my crystal ball says those three will have nominations plus the fourth spot will go to Jane and the fifth perhaps go to Ai Weiwei film or let's say it's still open for me to decide later. My winner and top hopeful to win 2018 Oscar obviously is Faces Places as doc is a fantastic visual voyage, the photos are superb and the whole experiential idea just blows my mind (thanks to how is presented in documentary).  Then, wish Agnes Varda gets a competitive Oscar so she can place it besides her honorary Oscar, sigh. The 15 films are...

Recently AMPAS announced that the field of Documentary Short Subject contenders for the 90th edition has been narrowed to 10 films, of which five (5) will earn a nomination. Voters from the Academy’s Documentary Branch viewed this year’s 77 eligible entries and submitted their ballots to PricewaterhouseCoopers for tabulation. Nominations for the 90th Academy Awards will be announced on Tuesday, January 23, 2018. The 10 films are listed below in alphabetical order by title Alone , Garret Bradley, USA Edith+Eddie ,  Laura Checkoway, USA Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405 , Frank Stiefel, USA Heroin(e) , Elaine McMillion Sheldon, USA Kayayo – The Living Shopping Baskets , Mari Bakke Riise, Norway Knife Skills , Thomas Lennon, USA 116 Cameras , Davina Pardo,  USA and UK Ram Dass, Going Home , Derek Peck, USA Hopptornet (Ten Meter Tower), Axel Danielson and Maximilien van Aertryck, Sweden Traffic Stop , Gina Kamentsky and Julie Zammarchi, USA The 90th Academy Awards will be held o...

The so-called " most powerful " group of American critics voted their 2017 awards and top award went to Luca Guadagnino's Call Me by Your Name which is a surprise in the sense that film in America was the object of negative reviews, especially those related to film story being about " gay statutory rape " (sic). Sigh. Then, under group standards believe voting was "fast" as only took five-and-a-half hours and I recall voting for longer than six hours, lol.  Still was too-long for me to follow live. Most interesting were the awards given to female actors as it's great to see outstanding Sally Hawkins being honored as she has had many-many great performances along her career and Laurie Metcalf being recognized for her work in the big screen. No doubt that group liked Guadagnino's film but thanks to them Guillermo del Toro's latest film has been put in the awards race.  Notorious is how once again the west coast film critics honors differ from...