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February 27, 2024

Awards Season and More

Guild winners point to "Oppenheimer" as Best Picture front-runner; Nolan likely to win first Oscar for Best Director.

Oppenheimer wins Outstanding Cast in a Motion Picture at the 30th Annual SAG Awards.
Oppenheimer wins Outstanding Cast in a Motion Picture at the 30th Annual SAG Awards. Courtesy of SAG Awards/Netflix.

As final Oscars voting comes to an end, many of the guilds have been announcing their winners. This past weekend, saw both SAG and PGA chime in. All roads are pointing towards Oppenheimer winning Best Picture and Christopher Nolan winning his first Oscar for Best Director. Nolan winning an Oscar is long overdue. For what it's worth, it'll take less time for Nolan than Scorsese in winning his first Oscar for directing.

While I started up a Substack for baseball last summer, I've now started writing for MLB Report as their St. Louis Cardinals beat writer. You can find my author page here. At the moment, I'm balancing that, my film schedule, and prepping for my trip to Israel in March. Suffice it to say, I'm keeping busy. After I get back from Israel, I'll be transcribing many of my Masters of the Air interviews. In the meantime, I'm gonna try and get as much of my editorial calendar planned out ahead of time as film reviews do not write themselves.

As far as writing goes, my days conducting interviews for both Above the Line and Below the Line are pretty much over. I made the decision during the past week because they still owe money dating back to August. I'm sorry but not paying writers is not the way to run an outlet. My final interview for ATL was with Suncoast filmmaker Laura Chinn. My final interview for BTL would have been with Suncoast composers Este Haim and Christopher Stracey but I opted to run it on my site after alerting the publicists to what was happening. The last of my published BTL interviews is with The Holdovers composer Mark Orton. If you want my thoughts, it should have run between the shortlist announcement and Oscar nomination voting at the latest. Instead, it ran in mid-February.

Film Reviews:

  • Key Largo

  • Madame Web

  • Bob Marley: One Love

  • Fargo

  • Einstein and the Bomb

  • No Country for Old Men

  • Dune: Part 2

  • Drive-Away Dolls

  • The Man Who Wasn't There

  • Contagion

Home Entertainment Releases:

  • The Roaring Twenties

  • Hanna-Barbera Superstars 10

TV Reviews:

  • Abraham Lincoln

Interviews:

  • Jeff Rowe - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem

  • Este Haim and Christopher Stracey - Suncoast

News:

  • Dr. Clarence B. Jones Fights Antisemitism in Super Bowl Ad

  • Sam Mendes Making 4 Movies About The Beatles

Trailers:

  • Deadpool and Wolverine

  • Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

  • Twisters

Op-ed:

  • David Zaslav Needs to Resign as Warner Bros. Discovery CEO

  • Cillian Murphy and Hollywood Junkets

Awards Season:

  • Art Directors Guild Awards winners

  • DGA Awards winners

  • Annie Awards winners

  • BAFTA Awards winners

  • MUAHS Awards winners

  • WGA Awards nominations

  • VES Awards winners

  • SAG Awards winners

  • Film Independent Spirit Awards winners

  • PGA Awards winners

Streaming--Coming and Leaving:

  • Netflix

  • Peacock

  • Hulu

  • Prime Video/Amazon Freevee

  • Max

  • Paramount+

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