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Is ‘Power Of The Dog’ Your Oscar Winner For Best Picture?

February 9, 2022 10:16 am

Perhaps the Best Picture race is truly over. When the 2022 Oscar nominations were announced Jane Campion's "The Power of the Dog" landed 12 nominations including Best Picture, Best Director, Adapted Screenplay...

2022 Oscar Nominations: ‘Power Of The Dog’ Leads With 12 Noms, ‘Dune’ Nabs 10 [Full List]

The Playlist Staff

February 8, 2022 8:22 am

Awards, Features, News

Well, it’s certainly that timer again. The 94th Academy Award ceremony announces its Oscar picks for 2022. It’s been a long and winding Oscar season, but this phase of the campaign is about to be over. Will Ne...

Key Oscars Takeaways After SAG Noms & BAFTA Longlists

Gregory Ellwood

January 12, 2022 2:30 pm

Awards, Awards Campaign, News

Oscar season giveth and Oscar season taketh away. You can truly never make anyone happy during awards season and that was the case this morning with the revelation of both the 2022 BAFTA Awards longlists and t...

‘West Side Story,’ ‘The Power Of The Dog’ & ‘Don’t Look Up’ Dominate The BAFTA Awards Longlists

Gregory Ellwood

January 12, 2022 9:46 am

Awards, Awards Campaign, News

If you're looking for an indicator of potential Oscar nominations sometimes you need to look across the Atlantic to the Academy's British counterparts, BAFTA. The U.K.-based organization features a large cros...

‘Don’t Look Up’ Apparently Scores Biggest Weekly Viewership In Netflix Film History

Charles Barfield

January 7, 2022 11:25 am

News

Well, folks, Netflix has a new “biggest thing ever!” to talk about. Before last year, the biggest streaming platform on the planet was pretty hush-hush when it come to talking about viewership numbers for film...

The Essentials: The Films Of Adam McKay

Nicholas Laskin

December 30, 2021 10:58 am

Features, News

Long before he directed “Anchorman: The Legend Of Ron Burgundy,” a movie that shaped the sensibility of 2000’s screen comedy to an immeasurable degree, Adam McKay was already schooled in the art of making peop...

Leonardo DiCaprio Was Concerned About Meryl Streep’s Nude Scene In ‘Don’t Look Up’ Because She’s “Film Royalty”

Charles Barfield

December 14, 2021 10:57 am

News

Adam McKay has made a name for himself as one of the premier filmmakers working today. It seems that once he made the jump from straight comedy to more satirical work with “The Big Short” and his more recent f...

‘Don’t Look Up’ Review: A Smug, Glib Miscalculation From Adam McKay

Jason Bailey

December 7, 2021 7:13 pm

Features, News, Reviews

Plenty of ink has been spilled on the evolution (or, depending on who you’re talking to, de-evolution) of Adam McKay, who has gone from the “Saturday Night Live” writers room to the auteur of such likably goof...

‘West Side Story,’ ‘Nightmare Alley’ & ‘Don’t Look Up’ Shake Up The Best Picture Race [Contender Countdown]

Gregory Ellwood

December 2, 2021 1:18 pm

Awards, Awards Campaign, News

The end is here. No, we're not at the end of Oscar season, but we are effectively at the finish line for Oscar contenders to reveal themselves. Sure, "Spider-Man: No Way Home," "The Matrix: Resurrections" and ...

19 Films To See In December: ‘Nightmare Alley,’ ‘Don’t Look Up,’ ‘Tragedy Of Macbeth’ & More

Ally Johnson

December 1, 2021 1:41 pm

Features, News

It speaks to the month's quality that to kick things off there's the release of Jane Campion's beauty, "The Power of the Dog," starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Kirsten Dunst on&n...

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