Dir: Ben Affleck Cast: Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Jason Bateman, Marlon Wayans, Chris Messina, Chris Tucker, Viola Davis Ben Affleck's Nike Air origin story is charming but safe. ★★★★ To celebrate 1 year of DanLovesFilm I will be reposting some of my original reviews from the early days of the site - enjoy. Team Affleck... Continue Reading →
Awards Season is well and truly underway and the nominees for the 81st annual Golden Globe Awards are to be announced on Monday 11th December. The Golden Globes are one of the major precursors when determining which films will be big players at the upcoming Academy Awards. Other precursors to come in the next few... Continue Reading →
Strong Contenders Oppenheimer (Jennifer Lame) Poor Things (Yorgos Mavropsaridis) (↑10) Killers of the Flower Moon (Thelma Schoonmaker) Barbie (Nick Houy) (↑5) The Holdovers (Kevin Tent) (↑1) Possible Contenders Maestro (Michelle Tesoro) (↑7) Air (William Goldenberg) Ferrari (Pietro Scalia) Anatomy of a Fall (Laurent Senechal) (NEW) Past Lives (Keith Fraase) Outsiders The Colour Purple (Jon Poll)... Continue Reading →
Like Adapted Screenplay, Original Screenplay is looking like a two horse race between two, almost certain, Best Picture nominees. Both Celine Song's "Past Lives" and Alexander Payne's "The Holdovers" have received strong reviews this year, with The Holdovers finishing runners-up at TIFF in September. The festival season has since changes in the top five with... Continue Reading →
As foreseen in my previous predictions for supporting actress, "Lily Gladstone" will be campaigned in Lead Actress at the upcoming Academy Awards, and as a result the supporting actress category has been blown wide open. With Gladstone being the clear frontrunner in this category back in June, this category has now become one of the... Continue Reading →
There are usually three things to consider when it comes to predicting for Editing at the Academy Awards. Firstly, most films that go on to win Best Picture usually secure a nomination for Editing, in fact since the turn of the millennium 21 out of 23 Best Picture winners have received an editing nomination. The... Continue Reading →
In contrast to the stacked Adapted Screenplay, Original Screenplay has very few strong contenders for 2024. This is largely due to the ongoing SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes, which as seen some notable films pushed back to next year including: "Bob Marley: One Love", "The Book of Clarence", "Drive-Away Dolls" and Luca Guadagnino's "Challengers". Due to... Continue Reading →
The 2024 Oscars could be shaping up to be a historic year for Indigenous American Women. The ceremony could see the first ever woman of Indigenous American descent ever nominated for an Oscar. "Lily Gladstone", who stars in Martin Scorsese's Killers of a Flower Moon is of Blackfeet and Nimiipuu descent, and is the early... Continue Reading →
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