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BAFTA Or The ACTOR Awards? Which One Actually Helps Predict The Acting Oscar Winners?
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The PGA and ACTOR split on “One Battle After Another” and “Sinners” being their Best Picture/Best Ensemble winners, but that wasn’t nearly as wild as the acting race splits between BAFTA and ACTOR this year. While both BAFTA and ACTOR...
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The Next Best Picture Podcast – Interview With “The Girl Who Cried Pearls” Directors Chris Lavis & Maciek Szczerbowski
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“The Girl Who Cried Pearls”  is a Canadian animated short film, directed by Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski. Made through stop-motion animation, the film centers on a young boy who meets and falls in love with a girl who secretly...
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Anonymous 2026 Oscar Ballot #1
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Oscar voting is officially over for the 98th Academy Awards, and now we are just patiently waiting until the awards are handed out on March 5th. As we do every year, Will Mavity and I spoke with several Academy voters about what...
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The Next Best Picture Podcast – Interview With “Jane Austen’s Period Drama” Filmmakers Julia Aks & Steve Pinder
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“Jane Austen’s Period Drama” is a 2024 English-language short comedy film written and directed by Julia Aks and Steve Pinder. The film is a satire on Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice.” The film had its world premiere at the 39th...
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How “The Secret Agent” Shows Us That Memory Is Resistance
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It’s a time of great mischief, and a man on the run desperately searches for his mother’s birth certificate. That time is 1977 Brazil, and under an alias, he works through endless rows of filing cabinets to find proof of...
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“Industry” Keeps Reinventing Itself As Season 4 Proves It’s Still Television’s Sharpest Prestige Drama
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THE STORY – Young bankers and traders make their way in the financial world in the aftermath of the 2008 collapse. THE CAST – Myha’la, Marisa Abela, Ken Leung, Kit Harrington, Sagar Radia, Kiernan Shipka, Max Minghella, Charlie Heaton, Miriam...
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The Next Best Picture Podcast – Interview With “Retirement Plan” Director John Kelly
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“Retirement Plan” is a 2024 Irish animated short film directed by John Kelly and co-written by John Kelly and Tara Lawall. It is Kelly’s debut film. The 7-minute animated film about the fantasies of a middle-aged man has received positive...
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Chalamet’s Loss, Jordan’s Surge, Moura’s Momentum, DiCaprio’s Film, Hawke’s Career: The Chaos That Is This Year’s Best Actor Oscar Race
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Just two weeks ago, the Best Actor Oscar race seemed fairly easy to call. Timothée Chalamet was in the lead for the Best Picture nominee “Marty Supreme.” He won the Critics’ Choice and the Golden Globe, led regional critics’ groups...
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More Big Name Presenters Announced For The 98th Academy Awards
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Executive producer and showrunner Raj Kapoor and executive producer Katy Mullan announced today that Will Arnett, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Robert Downey Jr., Anne Hathaway, Paul Mescal, and Gwyneth Paltrow will present at the 98th Oscars. Hosted by Conan O’Brien, the...
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“I SWEAR”
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THE STORY – John Davidson grows up with Tourette syndrome in 1980s Scotland. He faces a society that does not understand his condition. He eventually becomes a campaigner to increase public awareness. THE CAST – Robert Aramayo, Maxine Peake, Shirley Henderson,...
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