Is it fair to still care about award ceremonies?
"I’m not quite at the level where I stay up until four in the morning to watch the Oscars, but I will, without fail, google the winners the next day"
The Oscar Best Picture Winner You’ve Never Heard Of
"With the Oscar nominations for 2024 having been released in anticipation of March’s ceremony, it is worth looking back on a former Best Picture winner that has never got its due."
Rethinking the Oscars
With cinemas closed amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, it is no surprise that many typical filmgoers haven’t seen the nominated films this year. However, as...
Review: Diary of a Murderer and Other Stories by Kim Young-Ha
‘It’s been twenty-five years since I last murdered someone, or has it been twenty-six?’
A serial killer suffering from Alzheimer’s attempts to protect his daughter...
The 2020 Oscars: Fashion with a Voice
The 2020 Oscars was a night in
which history was made, with Parasite being the first foreign-language
film to win Best Picture, and the animated short...
Lose Yourself: A Sign of the Times
If you want to feel the sensation of your skin crawling, watching Eminem’s unexpected performance of ‘Lose Yourself’ at the Oscars should certainly do...
The year of the underdog: will outsider nominees come out on top at this year’s Oscars?
Awards season is well and truly upon us. After last week’s BAFTAs and Grammy awards, it is inevitably time for the Oscars, the Big...
Lady Bird paints a perfect picture of female adolescence
Exploring Greta Gerwig’s stunning directorial debut
Predicting the most unpredictable Oscars ceremony in years
The 90th Academy Awards features an incredible list of nominees, which makes it nearly impossible to argue what should or will win...
Judge representative films on merit not just diversity
The films of women and POC must be judged meritocratically and not just for their representation
Imagining Idris Elba
How the film industry is failing black actors
Blockbuster bust-up?
This might be the year when mainstream movies shake up awards season
The Harvey Weinstein scandal has shone the spotlight on Hollywood’s institutional sexism
The disgraced film producer should mark a turning point in the film industry, writes Shivani Ananth
