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Movie buffs have a love/loathe relationship with the Academy Awards. Some years, Oscar voters get it shockingly right and nominate a group of mostly worthy films for Best Picture. Other years, they chicken out and play it safe with formulaic biopics and historical dramas.
Oscar firsts and rare nominations for the 91st Academy Awards
The 2019 Academy Awards find the motion picture industry at an uneasy crossroads: While the organization's diversity initiatives have broadened the composition of its membership, there's still a sense that more work needs to be done (e.g.
Ranking Darren Aronofsky's films
Darren Aronofsky has never made a bad or even below-average movie: Every film has been a must-see. How do they rank by comparison? Here's one man's attempt to separate the best from the very good.
Love stinks: 27 anti-romance movies to get you through Valentine's Day
With Valentine's Day approaching, you'll no doubt be inundated with lists recommending the usual rom-com classics meant to reassure us that our Harry or Sally is somewhere out there waiting for us. Well, what if they aren't?
Who are these not so well-known 2019 Oscar nominees?
Here's a quick heads-up on some of this year's lesser-known but immensely deserving nominees.
The 24 most memorable Oscar speeches
Winning an Academy Award is the moment every film industry professional dreams of, and when it arrives, winners have to quickly compose themselves and deliver their acceptance speeches.
The 20 best Alan Alda performances in honor of his SAG Life Achievement Award
On Jan. 25, 2019, the Screen Actors Guild will present its prestigious Life Achievement Award to the great Alan Alda. Though Alda has spent the last two decades stealing scenes in supporting performances on top-rated shows like "ER," "The West Wing" and "The Blacklist," 40 years ago he was one of the biggest TV and movie stars on the planet.
Best screenwriters to never win Best Screenplay
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences hands out two screenwriting Oscars a year (for "original" and "adapted" works), but it has still managed to pass over some of the greatest writers in the history of the medium over the last 90 years.
Underrated and forgotten films and performances of Oscars past
An Academy Award nomination is no guarantee of lasting prominence. The nominees of one year could quickly be forgotten the next; even winners occasionally get dumped from our collective memory.
Well-known names who won these less-celebrated Oscars
If you're not an Oscars obsessive or an industry professional, you might zone out when the Academy hands out awards in the technical, design or short-film categories.
Rarest and weirdest achievements in Oscar history
The Academy Awards have been dishing out Oscars since 1929, and amid the snubs and surprises, there have been some truly unusual achievements. Weird coincidences, unprecedented success stories, a dog getting nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay...the Oscars never fail to amuse and confound.
Don't let these 25 movies slip you by in 2019
No matter how distractingly hectic your 2019 gets, somewhere in the back of your overtasked mind you're going to remember "Avengers: Endgame" is coming out in April.
The 20 most influential TV antiheroes of the last 20 years
Television changed forever on January 10, 1999, when New Jersey mobster Tony Soprano, overcome with anxiety, sought psychiatric assuagement with Dr. Jennifer Melfi. It was a sign of the times: Murderous gangsters needed therapy, too.
Pop art may still drive the culture, but it doesn't reflect 2018's contentious climate
Escapism has its place, but when fascism and bigotry are ascendant, we need our greatest living artists to appeal to our sense of morality and social justice.
The 20 best movies of 2018 that should win Oscars (but won't)
Awards season jockeying traditionally reaches a fever pitch in December, as artists and their publicists scramble to lock in one of the five coveted slots in each Academy Awards category.
The 25 movies, shows and music that defined 2018
The world may be a hot, whirling mess at the moment, but when it comes to entertainment, a lot of amazing artists summoned up some world-class work in 2018.
Amazon, Hulu, Netflix: We're going to need more bandwidth for these forthcoming shows and movies in 2019
All caught up with your favorite streaming movies and shows? Of course you aren't! There's no such thing as "caught up" in the modern era, and we regret to inform you that this is not going to change in 2019.
Underrated or forgotten holiday movies you should watch this season
"Miracle on 34th Street." Check. "It's a Wonderful Life." Check. "Die Hard." Yippee ki-yay, check. You've watched all of the essential holiday movies, and there are still weeks of holiday-ing left. What now?
The 25 greatest cult TV shows
On Nov. 24, 1988, television viewers of a certain cultish stripe will celebrate the 30th anniversary of the first transmission from Joel Robinson, Crow T. Robot and Tom Servo from the Satellite of Love.
For your consideration: Rachel McAdams, Best Supporting Actress for 'Game Night'
If the Academy is looking to honor a respected actor for going full goofball in one of the year’s most surprisingly delightful comedies, it will throw its full-throated support behind Rachel McAdams in “Game Night.”
Why these artists have more than earned their honorary Oscars
You may not know all of these names, but you have absolutely encountered their brilliant work in one way or another.
The 20 best follow-up movies after winning a Best Director Oscar
What do you do after you win a Best Director Oscar? Well, if you're a professional who takes pride in your work, you hop back in that high-legged chair and get cracking on your next movie knowing full well that you will probably not be hoisting a gold trophy this time out.
An Ennio Morricone film education
If you lived outside of a major media center, you had to work hard to find the movies Morricone scored. And if you had a Morricone jones, you did the work.
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