A Hero (2021) is a drama-thriller film from Iranian director Asghar Farhadi. It stars Amir Jadidi as a man imprisoned for unpaid debts who has two days to try and clear his name before going back to jail. The film debuted at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, where it tied for the runner-up prize (the Grand Prix), ahead of its release in theaters and streaming on Amazon Prime. Will this be a contender for Best International Feature at the 2022 Oscars?
The 93rd Academy Awards are still to come in this torturously-long season, but with many of the major races already decided, let’s jump ahead a year and look at next year’s ceremony! Next awards season gives us a nice dose of deja vu as we already know many of the big contenders, thanks to them being pushed back due to COVID-19. As such, I won’t be doing a traditional early predictions article, because it would end up looking awfully similar to last year’s edition. Instead, I’ve picked out 40 films that look to have some serious Oscar heat and will discuss why they should be on everyone’s radars moving forward!
With film festivals just around the corner, awards season is officially about to begin! What films and performances will be recognized at next year’s 93rd Academy Awards? It’s still early, but never too early to start making predictions, so here goes nothing!
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Part Two of our list! Which of these films will find Oscars success this winter?
We’re right around the corner from 2021 awards season, which means it’s time to start talking about what films we’re likely to see at the 93rd Academy Awards this winter! This year is a weird one however, as the future of many releases is in jeopardy and we don’t know if the ceremony will even happen or not. But who wants to worry about things like that? Let’s hope for the best and take a look at as many upcoming films as we can to gauge their Oscar chances!
Palm Springs (2020) is a sci-fi rom-com from debut writer-director Max Barbakow. It stars Andy Samberg and Cristin Millioti as two strangers who meet at a wedding and become trapped in a time loop, repeating the same day over and over. It debuted to strong reviews at this year’s Sundance Film Festival before hitting Hulu this weekend. Is this a fresh concept worth exploring, or a tired rehashing of familiar source material?
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2020 has definitely been a strange year for cinema. With cinemas all but shut down and the future of new releases in peril, it’s difficult to analyze the year’s offerings as a cohesive whole. I’ve also seen far fewer films than I normally would by this point in the year. Regardless, we have seen some strong work thus far, and as is tradition, I want to take the opportunity at the halfway mark of the year and look back at what we’ve received so far. So without further ado, here are the 3rd Annual Scriptophile Midpoint Oscars!
Welcome back to my Best Picture series, where I watch and review every film that has won the top prize at the Academy Awards! We’re nearing the end of our journey as we reach the 1940’s. Will we discover any hidden gems?
Welcome to another mini-review round-up, where I share my abbreviated thoughts on a few newer releases! Today I’m catching up on a few of the more well-received films to be released digitally in the past few months. Enjoy my thoughts on Big Time Adolescence, The High Note, Shirley, and Becky!
As a counterbalance to my previous post, I want to do the opposite and talk about some films that DIDN’T get much public recognition but really should have. These are the hidden gems that have slipped through the cracks, the forgotten flicks that should have been remembered alongside their Oscar-nominated kin. Here are the 10 most overlooked films of the 2010’s!
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