The Best Director category has become one of the most unpredictable categories this year as three directors could easily win the top prize. However, one director, Mexican filmmaker Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, could walk away with the Oscar this year for his work on "Birdman," and here's why.
The Best Original Screenplay category is one of the toughest categories this year as it includes the three big front-runners to win the Best Picture award.
The Editing category is one of the most contested awards at the Academy Awards and it has become a norm that the Best Picture winner must be nominated in this category. This year all five nominees will compete for Best Pictures and it is presumed that one of these five will also take home Best Picture.
The Production Design category is one of the most interesting categories this year as three of the nominees are also nominated for Best Costume Design.
The Best Original Score is one of the most interesting categories at the Academy Awards because the style of music awarded is always different. Will the movie "The Theory of Everything" take home the Oscar in that category this year?
The cinematography category is one of the most competitive each year as the craftsmanship becomes more unique and diverse. This year the nominees are made up previous winners, previous nominees and three newcomers.
The costume design category is one of the most interesting at the Academy Awards. Every year the Academy's taste changes based on the popularity of the film in the precursor prizes and sometimes the prize is handed in tandem with the production design award.
With the awards season under way and the reveal of the 2015 Oscar nominations last Thursday, on-demand Internet streaming media available providers -- Amazon, Hulu and Netflix -- have once again treated moviegoers with a horde of some of the latest Oscar-nominated films. Here's your chance to check out the biggest critically acclaimed films and commercial successes of the year at home. Get that coffee pot ready and get ready to binge.
As usual, there were a few major upsets. On Thursday morning, the Academy Award nominations were announced at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California, by president of the Academy Cheryl Boone Isaacs, blockbuster movie actor Chris Pine, Oscar-winning director Alfonso Cuarón ("Gravity") and J.
On Thursday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will announce the annual Oscar nominations. So which films are locks for Best Picture and which are still on the border?
What were Latin Post.com film writer David Salazar's favorite films of 2014? Here is a run down including the honorable mentions which include "The Imitation Game," "A Most Wanted Man," "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes," "Inherent Vice" and others.
Ansel Elgort and Eva Longoria announced Wednesday morning that "Birdman," the 2014 American arthouse black comedy by Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu, and "Boyhood," Richard Linklater's coming-of-age drama, have landed the most 21st Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations.
On Thursday, the Golden Globe nominations were announced with "Birdman" leading the nominees with seven. As a result, a number of nominees got a boost while other films lost strength. Here are some of the results.
This year, the Original screenplay category is shaping up to be one of the most competitive in a long time. From Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu's 'Birdman' to the critically-acclaimed 'Boyhood', the field for the Oscars' screenplay category is looking strong.
The midpoint of cinema's yearly cycle is underway. Already 331 films have been released this year, and a number of art house and studio films have had terrific success both critically and financially. Here are some of my favorites thus far.
