Dir: David Fincher Nominated for: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Original Score, Best Sound, Best Cinematography, Best Production Design, Best Costume Design, Best Makeup and Hairstyling. Score: ★★★★☆ Citizen Kane has long been considered the measuring stick by which other cinema has been judged. A miraculous product of an unconstrained (by... Continue Reading →
Dir: Lee Isaac Chung Nominated for: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Original Score Score: ★★★☆☆ Lee Isaac Chung's Minari is a semi-autobiographical tale about a Korean-American family attempting the tricky task of settling into 1980's rural Arkansas. Featuring a handsome set of performances from the entire cast... Continue Reading →
Dir: Marielle Heller Nominated for: Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor (Richard E. Grant), Best Adapted Screenplay. Score: ★★★★☆ Another in the glut of true life based films that has swarmed the Oscars this year, on the surface this one seems like the premise for a somewhat different, flimsier film. Author Lee Israel (Melissa McCarthy) has... Continue Reading →
Dir: Spike Lee Nominated for: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor (Adam Driver), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, Best Film Editing. Score: ★★★★★ There is little doubt Spike Lee is one of the pre-eminent directors of this generation or of any other. His voice is singular, distinctive and perhaps most importantly of all... Continue Reading →
Dir: Alfonso Cuaron Nominated for: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress (Yalitza Aparicio), Best Supporting Actress (Marina de Tavira), Best Original Screenplay, Best Foreign Language Film, Best Cinematography, Best Production Design, Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing. Score: ★★★★★ Alfonso Cuaron's back catalogue is a mixed bag in a strangely varied career, his '91 debut... Continue Reading →
