With the start of December awards, madness began with three major organizations handing out Best Picture awards. Additionally, the Academy Awards announced the 15 shortlisted documentaries that will compete for a nomination.
On Monday, the New York Film Critics Circle will present the first critics' awards of the season and will officially get Awards Season off to a big start.
There are four blockbusters that could be nominated for Best Pictures, but will they be considered? Back in 2008, the Academy Awards famously snubbed "The Dark Knight" in the Best Picture category and decided to nominate the little-seen film "The Reader.
Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones dazzle with brilliant performances in James Marsh's new masterful and emotional film 'The Theory of Everything,' based on the life of acclaimed physicist Dr. Stephen Hawking. which is receiving Oscar buzz, and all the attention it is getting is undoubtedly well-deserved.
In a year with so many Best Actor contenders, sometimes the finest performances get lost by the overcrowded season. One of the finest performances of the year comes from the late Philip Seymour Hoffman for his portrayal in "A Most Wanted Man."
In April, The Weinstein Company released one of the Toronto Film Festival's biggest hits "The Railway Man." The movie had been anticipated as it was by director Jonathan Teplitzky, an acclaimed Australian director. The anticipation grew when the Weinstein Company announced that it had acquired US distribution rights and many pundits positioned it as an Oscar contender.
Begin Again, starring Keira Knightley and Mark Ruffalo, was one of the most expensive acquisitions at the Toronto Film festival, but flopped at the box office, even though the movie obtained rave reviews. Yet, Knightley and Ruffalo received stellar receptions from critics. Do the two movie stars deserve Oscar nominations at the 2015 Academy Awards?
Earlier this weekend, Jon Stewart's directorial debut "Rosewater" opened to rave reviews and scored Mexican-born actor Gael Garcia Bernal some of the best reviews of his career.However, the opening lacked Oscar buzz and struggled to garner a big audience. Will that change?
Tilda Swinton is arguably one of the most versatile actors her generation and has worked with numerous auteurs and blockbusters. Will her work in 'Snowpiercer' be enough to net her an Academy Award at the 2015 Oscars?
Daniel Ribeiro, one of Brazil's hottest movie directors, speaks to Latin Post.com about his experience making his new movie "The Way He Looks", its chances at the 2015 Oscars and the surprises its has brought along the way.
Tom Hardy is considered one of the most talented actors of his generation and has also become an icon as Bane in "The Dark Knight Rises" and Mad Max in the upcoming film.
Landing a role in "Cantinflas," a biopic about Mario Moreno, the most beloved comedic actor in Mexico was monumental for Mexican actress Gabriela De La Garza. In an exclusive interview with Latin Post, the Mexico City actress discusses how she challenged herself linguistically and physically for the role and her experience acting in the Oscar-buzzed film, which was released by Pantelion Films and will be available on DVD Dec. 2, 2014.
A24 has had one of the best years of 2014 with many films that could obtain Oscar nominations. One of those films is "Under the Skin," the critically-acclaimed science fiction feature, starring Scarlett Johansson, by Jonathan Glazer.
With awards season having officially started, there are number of early releases that were critically acclaimed and which will most likely be ignored during the season. As a result, throughout the next month these Oscar pieces will be dedicated to arguing why the Oscars should consider these films.
With "Interstellar" having premiered and critics being a bit mixed on the film, there is speculation on whether it will be a 2015 Oscar contender or not.
Mexico's most beloved comedic film star of all time, Cantinflas (played by Mario Moreno) was considered to be "the best comedian alive," according to the great Charlie Chaplin. Today, his influence continues to thrive not only with Pantelion Films' recent release of his biopic, "Cantinflas," but with modern-day Latino comedic actors, such as Cheech Marin who recalled meeting Moreno in a Latin Post exclusive interview.
