Posts relating to film awards, such as Oscar, Golden Globes, BAFTA, etc.
Award season is in full swing! There are a plethora of awards already announced, but in years past, I normally only talk about a few of them, SAG, Golden Globes and of course, the Oscars. By the time I got to Twitter on Monday morning, people were already chiming in on their thoughts on the noms. It's no …
Continue reading Award season chat: Musings on 2017 Golden Globes Nominations
It's a wrap!! The 2016 TCFF has concluded Saturday night with a festive closing night party. I saw four films Saturday night. Starting with two great documentaries Actors Of Sound and Free Cece, followed by two powerful emotional dramas, Lion and Moonlight. I had been crying so much watching Lion, a wonderful depiction of an incredible true …
Continue reading It’s a wrap! ‘Moonlight’ and MN-made ‘Blood Stripe’ won TCFF 2016 top awards
I haven't had even an hour to blog all day today as I was watching films, interviewing talents and socializing at the mixer at the beautiful festival lounge at the Shoppes at West End. My head is still spinning as I'm writing this… my body is exhausted but my spirits are high from the exhilaration of …
Continue reading Musings on the TCFF 2016 Award finalists … championing indie films & women in film
Ahhh the morning after… So did you see the telecast last night? I went downstairs to my entertainment room at 6:30 and was hoping the whole thing would just start at 7pm, but heh of course we had to get through all the red carpet stuff first. Someone tweeted that the Oscars is really just …
Continue reading My 2016 Oscar recap… in tweets, gifs and clips
Well, it's that time of the year again… tax season and the Oscars. We're in fact doing our taxes just before I worked on this post. Both are unavoidable and obligatory, well for most of us blogging/writing about movies anyway. This is the first year I'm actually looking forward to the opening monologue more than the main …
Continue reading The obligatory Oscar predictions post: Who will win & who should win
Normally I'm excited for Oscar nominations, but this year it was overshadowed by a couple of things that happen around the same time. Just before I went to bed last night I heard news of terrorist attacks in my homeland Jakarta in multiple locations. One of the first bombs that went off was so close …
Continue reading 2016 Oscar Nominations: The Good, the Bad and the WTF
Happy Monday everyone! Did you watch the Golden Globes last night? Well it's tradition that I watch a couple of award seasons per year and GG and Oscar are the only two televised ceremonies. As host Ricky Gervais put it, "Nobody cares about those awards as much as you do, so don't get emotional, ok?" Ahah, it's …
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