Posts relating to film awards, such as Oscar, Golden Globes, BAFTA, etc.
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 …
Well it's been less than 48 hours since the SAG and Golden Globes nominations were announced so hopefully we can still chat about them, right? We've got about a month until the Oscars is announced on January 14th, so the awards season has officially commenced! Golden Globes Awards I grabbed these list of noms from IMDb. They have …
Continue reading Awards Season Chat – Musings on 2016 Golden Globes & SAG nominations
Quick confession: I'm not a huge fan of Oscars red carpet, or red carpet in general. So I only tuned in a half hour before the show. It's funny but the second I turned on the TV, Michael Keaton was standing next to the chirpy blond presenter. He seems effortlessly at ease, LOVE that guy and …
Continue reading Oscars 2015 – Recap, Reflections on Best & Worst Moments
Happy Oscar Weekend everybody! To those who give a ballyhoo about Oscars or award season in general, hang in there, award season is almost over 😉 I usually feel like Oscar ceremony sneaked up on me, but this year I'm glad it's finally here! Part of it is really so we can all move on, but …
Continue reading Counting down to 87th Academy Awards – Winner Predictions + various Oscar tidbits
The Oscars is just a week away, folks! Well, a week ago, as I was listening to 99.5 Classical MPR they were playing my favorite score from Titanic and I knew I had to make a post of it. For this post I'm focusing more on the instrumental themes instead of the songs, hence my exclusion …
Continue reading Music Break: Ten Favorite Oscar-Winning Film Scores
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