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awards

Celebrating Horror at the 97th Academy Awards

You couldn’t avoid the reach of The Substance if you tried at the Oscars.

Film

Best Directors of 2024

A look at some of the best directors from 2024.

Film

Best Films of 2024

2024 was an amazing year for weird and fascinating films.

Film

CODA Wins Big at the Academy Awards

CODA swept its categories at the Academy Awards, taking home the prizes for Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Adapted Screenplay.

Film

Academy Awards Ceremony Awarding Eight Prizes Before the Broadcast Begins

The Academy Awards are going to award eight categories out of 17 total before the ceremony begins to edit in later for the sake of a more “entertaining” program.

Film

94th Annual Academy Awards Roundup: Part 2: Visuals, Sound, and Music

Today, we continue our deep dive into the 94th Annual Academy Award nominations with Visuals, Sound, and Music categories.

Film

94th Annual Oscar Nominations Roundup

On Tuesday, 7 February, the nominations for the 94th Annual Academy Awards were announced. Here’s some insight into the race and a comparison to my own Best Of lists.

Games

2022 SXSW Gaming Awards Nominees

The 2022 SXSW Gaming Awards nominations are here, recognizing 40 of the best games released in 2021.

Film

The 94th Annual Academy Awards Takeaways

The 94th Annual Academy Awards took some huge risks in their presentation because of the global pandemic. Here are the highlights and…not so great moments.

Film

Promising Young Woman & Defining Genre

Promising Young Woman appears to have broken the record for how quickly a horror film can be rebranded as anything but thanks to awards attention. So let's dig into defining genre, shall we?

Film

93rd Annual Academy Award Nominations

Here’s a rundown of the 93rd annual Academy Award nominations announced today, 15 March 2021.

Film

The 78th Annual Golden Globe Awards Nominations

The 78th Annual Golden Globe Award nominations were released yesterday with plenty of surprises in film and television.

Music

63rd Annual Grammy Award Nominations

Here are my highlights from the 63rd Annual Grammy Award nominations.

Film

Superlatives: Best in Film 2019

Like I said in my Best Films of 2019 post [https://sketchydetails.us/sketchy-details/bestfilmsof2019], I really can’t remember a year where I swapped so many films in and out of my Top 10 to find the combination that made sense to me. I wanted to take the time to recognize more of the films and show

Film

Best Films of 2019

The year in film was a quite a journey for me. There were projects I looked forward to getting my eyes on for months that I wound up being utterly disappointed in. There were projects I had no interest in seeing that I took a chance on and fell in love with. Nothing shook out how I expected and it r

Film

Top 25 Films of the 2010s

One thing I always make it a point to do, no matter how busy my schedule, is a year-end wrap-up. I have a few more 2019 features to take in before I commit to a Best Films of 2019 list. However, I’ve seen enough films in the past 10 years to comfortable evaluate what I believe to be the best 25 of t

Theater

73rd Annual Tony Awards

The 73rd Annual Tony Awards happened last night. This is my favorite awards show because it is a celebration of the art form I grew up in and have worked in for most of my life. The Tonys offer a glimpse into one of the creative work for one of the best cities for theater. Is NYC the end all, be all

Film

91st Academy Awards Reaction and Winners

The 91st Academy Awards happened last night. I cannot speak to the broadcast as I opted to dive into Umbrella Academy instead. Yes, a slick superhero series with some…issues in how it portrays anyone except for straight white men felt far more relaxing than a night of awards that could bring serious

Music

Brandi Carlile and the 2019 Grammy Awards

Brandi Carlile might be one of the most naturally gifted singer/songwriters to come around in a long time. That is not to say that she is a new artist; 2018’s By the Way, I Forgive You is her sixth studio album. Her breakthrough came in 2007 with the release of The Story and she has steadily been cr

Event

Oscar Nominations and Final Awards

The 2018 Academy Award nominations came out last Tuesday and they have me feeling a certain way. I’m going to break down the major categories and share my final nominees and winners in the correlative categories. Let’s get to it.

Film

The 76th Annual Golden Globe Nominations

This morning, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced the nominees for the 76th annual Golden Globe Awards. The ceremony, honoring film and television, will be broadcast live on 6 January at 8 pm EST. These nominees tend to be quite different from the Oscars or the Emmys as the HFPA is com

Film

The Academy Awards Break Film Twitter with New Category and Broadcast Changes

or something I've heard referred to as irrelevant and out of touch with society for years, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, aka AMPAS, aka the organization that runs the Academy Awards, sure did blow up film Twitter yesterday. The Academy announced three new changes that will impact

Film

Thoughts on the Academy Award Nominations

The big story for me is still the Academy Award nominations and what they actually mean for the state of entertainment.Spoiler alert: We still have a LONG way to go.This is the first time since I began writing about film professionally over ten years ago that I face

Film

In Praise of "Manta Ray" from Racing Extinction

Despite what the Academy Awards would have you believe, original songs in films can have a profound impact on the cinematic experience. This is true even if the singer/songwriter is not an A-List celebrity. J. Ralph and Anohni's "Manta Ray" from Racing Extinction would be

Film

Why I Didn't Watch the Oscars This Year

I've said for a long time that these big awards shows--the Oscars, the Tonys, the Golden Globes, the Grammys--are my version of the big championship game. I'll sit there with way too many snacks and hoot at the screen while the awards are handed out. I&