Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Oscars 2025: Way Too Early Predictions

The 98th Academy Awards will be held on March 15, 2026. Every year I try to predict who the nominees will be in Best Picture, Best Director, the Acting categories, and the Writing categories. Sometimes I'm pretty good, often I'm horrendous, but it's fun to do and also works as a list of anticipatory titles for the coming year.

Friday, February 28, 2025

Winners, Day Three: The 2024 Hollmann Awards

Today is the last day of the 2024 Hollmann Awards. The full list of nominees is here, the first six winners are here, and the last six winners are here. Six more categories we'll discuss today, beginning with:

Thursday, February 27, 2025

Winners, Day Two: The 2024 Hollmann Awards

Today is the second of three days' worth of the 2024 Hollmann Awards. The full list of nominees is here, the first six winners are here. Six more categories we'll discuss today, beginning with:

Wednesday, February 26, 2025

Winners, Day One: The 2024 Hollmann Awards

Today is the first of three days' worth of the 2024 Hollmann Awards; the full list of nominees can be seen here. Six categories we'll discuss today, beginning with:

Sunday, February 23, 2025

The 2024 Hollmann Awards - My Nominees Are...

We are a week away from the 97th Academy Awards - but you are only a sentence away from the nominees for the 2024 Hollmann Awards! 70 films seen, a Top Ten named (alphabetically), and now, 29 films in 18 categories - what I think is the best of the year...

2024: The Longlists

The following is a collection of longlists. A companion to my Top Ten, it narrows the field of the remaining 17 categories in the Hollmann Awards to 15 options each:

Friday, February 21, 2025

My Top Ten of 2024

This year, I thought the best way to approach the Top Ten was to consider: which movies so excited and moved me that I wanted to go out and make one of my own? Which movies made me feel that anything was possible? Which movies sparked the same wonder and amazement I first felt as a budding cinephile? Which movies sent me off on such a high that I wanted, at the very least, to rollerskate after?

With that in mind, and with a tip o' the cap to honorable mentions Cabrini, Gladiator IIHundreds of BeaversLisa Frankenstein, Megalopolis, The SubstanceWicked, and The Wild Robot...my Top Ten: