It’s time for the Academy Awards to stop handing out ‘career Oscars’
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It’s time for the Oscars to dispense with the waiting, and instead award the year’s brightest performances the first time around.
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‘If Beale Street’ could balk: Inside this year’s worst Oscars snub
Even though “Beale Street” is a better film than “Vice,” the latter is the easier awards sell. As films such as “Darkest Hour” or “Bohemian Rhapsody” can attest, even awful-to-mediocre biopics with strong central performances are an Oscars shoo-in for best actor and best picture.
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90th Academy Awards boringly sticks to script
Despite offering a surprisingly eclectic spread of nominees, the 90th Academy Awards proved to be utterly, boringly predictable.
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Oscars, please choose any ‘Best Actor’ nominee over Gary Oldman
Perhaps the most shocking is Gary Oldman’s “Best Actor” nomination for his performance as the famed British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
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Who will, could and should win the 2018 Academy Awards
With the general consensus that there were no major snubs in this year’s Academy Awards nominations, category predictions become all the more interesting.
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How the 2018 Academy Awards nominations redefine ‘good’ film
Yet this sudden upsurge in critical appreciation of genre films raises the question of whether the nature of filmmaking itself is changing, or if we are.
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Joe Wright’s Churchill chamber piece ‘Darkest Hour’ huffs, puffs before surrendering to tepid convention
It’s not a particularly revolutionary performance by Oldman, but there are enough interesting moments deserving of a better narrative framework.
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‘Churchill’ humanizes iconic figure: An interview with director Jonathan Teplitzky and writer Alex von Tunzelmann
With “Churchill,” von Tunzelmann and Teplitzky don’t merely settle for telling another historical drama — they present viewers with a complete, flawed human being, one whose controversial but massive influence carries on to this day.
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Daily Cal Arts’ 15 Most Anticipated Films of 2017
With 2016 behind us, it’s time to look forward to the movies of 2017. Here are 15 films that we think will be phenomenal. “Darkest Hours” Directed by: Joe Wright (“Atonement,” “Pride and Prejudice”) Starring: Gary Oldman (“Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy,” “The Dark Knight”), Ben Mendelsohn (“Rogue One: A Star
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