If there were ever a single period of time that would be difficult to cover in the Awards Season, simply due to the number of precursors and lineups announced, it would be the past few days. Every year, the first week of December marks the first slew of organizations or critics groups that get the ball rolling (starting the first phase). Eventually, when phase 2 comes around (post-Oscar nominations), it’s a toss-up whether anything stated in phase 1 will actually come to...

�My heart was racing when the call of good news woke me! I thought I overslept and missed something,� I may have shrieked 🤯 and then my mind raced double time when I understood why. Amazingly, the dog is still sleeping!� It's an incredible and surreal honor to be nominated alongside these stunning performances and women. Thank you to my inspiration, dear friend and visionary Nia DaCosta for trusting me to be your Hedda, to our amazing collaborators at Amazon MGM Studios/Orion...

Best Motion Picture – Drama Frankenstein (Netflix) Hamnet (Focus Features) It Was Just An Accident (Neon) The Secret Agent (Neon) Sentimental Value (Neon) Sinners (Warner Bros. Pictures) Best Motion Picture – Musical Or Comedy Blue Moon (Sony Pictures Classics) Bugonia (Focus Features) Marty Supreme (A24) No Other Choice (Neon) Nouvelle Vague (Netflix) One Battle After Another (Warner Bros. Pictures) Best Motion Picture – Animated Arco (Neon) Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba Infinity Castle (Aniplex, Crunchyroll, Sony Pictures Entertainment) Elio (Walt Disney Studios...

One Battle After Another picked up another award in the hive mind bee drone army otherwise known as film critics. They are less tolerable than New York because at least New York still has Best Actor and Best Actress. At least New York has the fortitude to post on X. LA had to post on Blue Sky because that is how fragile they are. I don't know why anyone would pay any attention to them at this point, or any group that...

The Golden Globes will announce tomorrow morning. You still have time to enter our contest. Click here. You can change it if you'd like up to the minute (if you picked Eva Victor for Musical/Comedy actress, she is in drama so you can redo your form). The new Globes, as we call them, are roughly 300 or so international voters, many of them hand-picked to diversify the membership, and we don't have a long enough history to go by. They aren't the...

Much of the industry was shaken over the news that Netflix will be the big fish that swallows up Warner Bros. Discovery, taking a massive amount of content - movies, great television shows and IPs. For some, this just means more to watch inside Costco of Content. For others, it feels like something essential just died. If you're old like me you've lived through plenty of these by now. The end of the land lines. The end of record stores. And records....

BEST PICTURE Bugonia (Focus Features) Frankenstein (Netflix) Hamnet (Focus Features) Jay Kelly (Netflix) Marty Supreme (A24) One Battle After Another (Warner Bros.) Sentimental Value (Neon) Sinners (Warner Bros.) Train Dreams (Netflix) Wicked: For Good (Universal Pictures) BEST ACTOR Timothée Chalamet – Marty Supreme (A24) Leonardo DiCaprio – One Battle After Another (Warner Bros.) Joel Edgerton – Train Dreams (Netflix) Ethan Hawke – Blue Moon (Sony Pictures Classics) Michael B. Jordan – Sinners (Warner Bros.) Wagner Moura – The Secret Agent (Neon) BEST...

You can subscribe to the Buzzmeter newsletter here. The news hit this morning that Netflix has won the bidding war to purchase Warner Bros. Discovery. This was such a dangerous idea that a group of anonymous producers pleaded with Congress to stop the sale. Netflix released the news this morning, an $82 billion sale that will make people at both companies a lot of money: “Our mission has always been to entertain the world,” said Ted Sarandos, co-CEO of Netflix. “By combining...

AFI MOTION PICTURES OF THE YEAR AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH BUGONIA FRANKENSTEIN HAMNET JAY KELLY MARTY SUPREME ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER SINNERS TRAIN DREAMS WICKED: FOR GOOD Special citation for It Was Just an Accident AFI TELEVISION PROGRAMS OF THE YEAR ADOLESCENCE ANDOR DEATH BY LIGHTNING THE DIPLOMAT THE LOWDOWN THE PITT PLUR1BUS SEVERANCE THE STUDIO TASK

Some may hate AI.  I have figured out how to work with it to build a contest. That's right—a contest. You can register and make your predictions for the Golden Globes. There is a leaderboard to show who is predicting what. The application is a work in progress, and I expect some glitches. But for now, it appears to be working well enough to bring it to you. There might be a situation where it slows down or crashes the server; if...