Jack Mathews: ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’ is the Oscar frontrunner
As a former film critic and movie columnist, there are few things I enjoy more than a good fight over a much-anticipated, freshly-released picture and we have a doozy going right now over Quentin...
View ArticleJack Mathews: An early handicap of the Best Picture Oscar race from someone...
It is mid-August and Gold Derby expert Oscar panelists are laying the early line on 2020 Oscar winners, no small task given that most films that will actually be in contention in late fall have not...
View ArticleJack Mathews: Is ‘Ford v Ferrari’ about to make Oscar history?
If justice is done, James Mangold’s “Ford v Ferrari” will soon make history as the first of more than one hundred movies about the sport of auto racing to be nominated for Best Picture at the Academy...
View ArticleJack Mathews: Is Renee Zellweger this year’s Glenn Close?
Like nearly everyone who has an informed thought about this, I have consistently had Renee Zellweger in the first position for best actress for her portrayal of a fast-fading Judy Garland in “Judy,”...
View ArticleSuper Tuesday winners are ‘1917,’‘Jojo Rabbit’ and ‘Joker’
The Oscar race’s Super Tuesday, which featured the releases of nominations for BAFTA, the DGA and the PGA, have done more for the winnowing process than the Iowa caucuses will do for Democratic...
View ArticleJack Mathews: ‘Parasite’ can’t win Best Picture, can it? Hmmm, maybe.
The question has been asked and answered 11 times. Can a foreign language film nominated for the Best Picture Oscar actually win it? Eleven times over eight decades, beginning with Jean Renoir’s 1938...
View ArticleJack Mathews: Movies don’t edit themselves, or do they?
Considering that only one movie in the last 40 years has won the Best Picture Oscar without a nomination for film editing, and that that movie — “Birdman” – shares a “one-take” aesthetic with Sam...
View ArticleJack Mathews to Oscar voters: If you’re looking for a longshot, don’t...
With most of the Gold Derby Oscar experts predicting a Best Pcture win for either “1917” or “Parasite,” I’m wondering if Taika Waititi’s “Jojo” isn’t poised to pull a “Rabbit” out of the hat. (I’ll...
View ArticleJack Mathews: How ‘The Irishman’ went from Oscars frontrunner to a possible...
In my undergraduate days as a psych major, we studied the three common forms of conflict that dictates our stress levels when forced to make a decision. First, there is the desirable approach/approach...
View ArticleAn embarrassed Alexa sits out this year’s Oscar predictions
Predicting Oscar winners is a daunting task for the most experienced humans among us, but at least we keep trying. Alexa, Amazon’s silken-voiced robo-assistant, gave up after predicting last year that...
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