Best Film Editing 5. “Elvis,” Matt Villa and Jonathan Redmond https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoXjZlCTSm4&t=139s 4. “The Banshees of Inisherin,” Mikkel E.G. Nielsen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vg5URwH8EI 3. “Tár,” Monika Willi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Q5_2ddqDAY 2. “Top Gun: Maverick,” Eddie Hamilton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXbnzEHZDPg 1. “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” Paul Rogers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UQ7yvfctOU Best Cinematography 5. “Elvis,” Mandy Walker 4. “Tár,” Florian Hoffmeister 3. “Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths,” Darius Khondji 2.... Continue Reading →

Best Original Song 5. Applause from “Tell It Like a Woman,” Music and Lyric by Diane Warren https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAHorHpPqb4 4. Hold My Hand from “Top Gun: Maverick,” Music and Lyric by Lady Gaga and BloodPop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2CIAKVTOrc 3. Lift Me Up from “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” Music by Tems, Rihanna, Ryan Coogler and Ludwig Goransson; Lyric by Tems... Continue Reading →

Creating something out of nothing and creating a real space out of props. These two categories are closely related in as much as they achieve the same goal but just go about it very differently. Myself, I'm more inclined to like practical effects over that of CGI, but when CGI is used creatively and sparsely,... Continue Reading →

So there's the best overall movie, and then you have these secondary best pictures, each representing their niche corner of the cinema-sphere... unless your Parasite and take home the secondary and the main prize. But more often than not, I enjoy the movies in these categories better than the main Best Picture pool. Best Animated... Continue Reading →

Certainly these two categories have their fans. People like to ogle at all the pretty dresses in all the period pieces, and they love to critique the make-up and judge if a movie's art department has made an actor or an actress look better or worse or appropriate for the part. I believe that subtle... Continue Reading →

I'll be honest, music isn't really my strong suit, even though I have played a synthesizer and some percussion instruments in the past - poorly, I might add. In my youth, instead of listening to pop music on the radio, I spent my time listening to movie scores. I owned quite a few CD's at... Continue Reading →

I can't believe it's been a decade since this movie came out. It feels like it came out just a few years ago. It's been on my watchlist forever. The reason I didn't watch it back in 2013 is because it got so much hype that I didn't think that the movie could meet my... Continue Reading →