
my picks for tonight’s 95th Academy Awards (the Oscars for 2022’s films) (winners indicated)
I correctly guessed 13 out of the 23 categories, which is a little better than how I did last year.

I correctly guessed 13 out of the 23 categories, which is a little better than how I did last year.

Everything Everywhere All at Once leads with six wins; The Banshees of Inisherin takes fours awards. Twelve films overall earned awards.

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

I correctly guessed 15 out of the 24 categories, which is one of my better showings ever, I think.

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri wins big…

The Shape of Water wins Best Film, and Best Director goes to Guillermo del Toro. Agnes Varda is Defying Age and Ageism, and Hollywood’s sexual tormentors are inducted in the AWFJ Hall of Shame.

Get Out wins Best Film and Best Original Screenplay. Call Me by Your Name, Dunkirk, and Three Billboards also take two awards each.
“I almost got killed today because you kidnapped the wrong dog.” I cannot wait to see this.
December can feel overwhelming, for movie watchers, with all the awards contenders flooding the arthouses — if you’re in New York and Los Angeles — and multiplexes this holiday season. But it’s always true, too, that films from earlier in the year manage to get notice from critics groups in the pre-Oscar-nominations territory… and some … more…
Imagine if Laurel and Hardy were Irish hitmen caught in a web of existential angst…