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my picks for tonight’s 97th Academy Awards (the Oscars for 2024’s films) (winners indicated)

Mon, Mar 03, 2025

I correctly guessed 12 out of the 23 categories, which is exactly as well as I did last year. (Five of my “should win”s did win!) At least I’m consistent.

my picks for tonight’s 96th Academy Awards (the Oscars for 2023’s films) (winners indicated)

Mon, Mar 11, 2024

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I correctly guessed 12 out of the 23 categories, which is a little worse than how I did last year but better than the year before. So about par for the course for me.

AWFJ 2022 EDA Awards winners announced

Tue, Jan 17, 2023

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The Banshees of Inisherin, Everything Everywhere All at Once, and Women Talking tie for the most awards, at four apiece.

Oscar Nominated Live Action Shorts 2019 (91st Academy Awards) review

Wed, Feb 20, 2019

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My pick: Vincent Lambe’s controversial and profoundly harrowing “Detainment,” a dramatization of the real-life police interrogations of the 10-year-old boys who killed a toddler in England in 1993.

2018 Webby Award winners (which I help pick)

Wed, Apr 25, 2018

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A brief rundown of some of the film- and TV-related winners…

Oscar Nominated Animated Shorts 2018 (90th Academy Awards) review

Sun, Mar 04, 2018

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My pick: I suspect that this year’s winner will be “Garden Party,” a spectacular debut from new French animation studio Illogic that I am sure we will be seeing a lot more stunning work from.

The Salesman movie review: marriage, Iranian style

Wed, Feb 01, 2017

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This delicately realized portrait of an intellectual Tehran couple could easily be taking place in New York, London, or Tokyo. The empathy machine strikes again.