Awards Season
Oscar contenders, major performances, awards conversations and the films that define each season.
Explore 174 articles in the original Oscar Contenders collection, from individual film criticism to nominations, predictions and post-ceremony analysis.
From the Awards Archive
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Mass: Big drama in small spaces
Robert Redford’s Sundance Film Festival has always been the premiere way for independent filmmakers to debut their work and kick off a full year of promotion…
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The Tragedy of Macbeth: The weight of language
Adapting the works of William Shakespeare from the stage to the screen is a time-honored tradition of prestige filmmakers. Bringing the bard’s words to life in…
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Don’t Look Up: Stop worrying and love the comet
Stanley Kubrick made Dr. Strangelove, a quintessential black comedy of the 1960s starring Peter Sellers as a treatise against the uneasy relationship between America and Russia’s…
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Being The Ricardos: Sorkin’s big swing
Always the most cunning and captivating wordsmith, Oscar winner Aaron Sorkin grows increasingly sure-handed behind the director’s chair with each new project he takes on. Much…
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Spider-Man No Way Home: Superhero movies are back
Marvel Studios has had a problem for the better part of two years now. Ever since the release of Avengers: Endgame in 2019, the Disney-owned franchise…
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West Side Story: Reimagining a classic
There really isn’t such a thing as a bad Steven Spielberg movie. Regardless of the film, one of America’s quintessential directors has crafted a career so…
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The Power of the Dog: Melancholy in the old west
There’s no gunfights in Netflix’s largest awards contending release, a western starring Oscar nominee Benedict Cumberbatch as a Montana rancher in the 1920s. Director Jane Campion’s…
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House of Gucci: Killer fashion
Octogenarian filmmaker Ridley Scott is among the hardest working directors in Hollywood. With over 50 movies to his credit – including a pair of new releases…
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Belfast: Simple story, complex conflict
When we are young, the fuller picture of the world around us isn’t clear. Things that affect us directly – things that happen on the street…
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Spencer: The haunting of a princess
Pablo Larraín doesn’t approach his biographical subject manner in any traditional sense. His 2016 film Jackie, which was nominated for three Oscars, followed Natalie Portman as…
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