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