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Hollywood’s biggest night has come and gone and the big winner was Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water. The film scored four awards, including the highest honor — Best Picture — as well as finally giving the Mexican-born director his first Oscar. The acting prizes proved to offer no […]

Oscar Winners Revealed: Shape of Water Takes Top Prize

March 4, 2018 in Academy Awards tagged Academy Awards by joeldamos

Although there is a wee bit of debate earlier in awards season of whether Allison Janney would be a lock for her Best Supporting Actress Oscar or if Laurie Metcalf could catch her in their battle of the overbearing mothers, that faded into oblivion as the season progressed. In fact, […]

Oscar Watch: Will Acting Categories Ever Be Suspenseful Again?

March 2, 2018 in Academy Awards / Oscar Watch tagged Academy Awards / Oscar Watch by joeldamos

The 2018 Academy Awards are set to be handed out on March 4 and as you ready to fill out your friends and office pools, might The Movie Mensch suggest you read this article first. After decades of predicting movie’s biggest night, we know a thing or two about who […]

Oscar Watch: 2018 Academy Awards Predictions

February 26, 2018 in Academy Awards / Oscar Watch tagged Academy Awards / Oscar Watch by joeldamos

The 90th Academy Awards are just around the corner and those coveted nominations were announced this morning. Predictably, Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water scored big. But, could anyone have foreseen that the Cold War set fantasy/love story would garner 13 nominations? In a move showing that history has finally […]

Academy Award Nominations Announced: The Shape of Water Leads with ...

January 23, 2018 in Academy Awards tagged Academy Awards / Oscar Nominations / The Shape of Water by joeldamos

The 2017 Academy Awards are in the books and what a historic night it was, from its beginning through its highly confusing end. First off, the show started with Justin Timberlake performing his Oscar nominated hit Can’t Fight This Feeling… a first time a song has opened the show. And […]

Oscar 2017 Winners: Moonlight Scores Huge Upset, La La La ...

February 26, 2017 in Academy Awards tagged Academy Awards by joeldamos

With 14 Academy Award nominations, one would think that this year’s Oscars are going to be all about La La Land. Yes, that is kind of true. But, there are 24 total awards given out on February 28, so that means 10 other categories where the words La La Land will not […]

Oscar Watch: Predicting All 24 Categories – Win Your Oscar ...

February 24, 2017 in Academy Awards / Oscar Watch tagged Academy Awards / Oscar Predictions / Oscar Watch / Oscars by joeldamos

Hollywood does love itself, and that was on full display as the 89th annual Academy Awards nominations were revealed today and the Hollywood-set musical La La Land tied a record with the most nominations ever with fourteen. La La Land joined some heady company with Titanic and Ben Hur with the […]

Oscar Nominations Announced: La La Land Leads With Record-Tying 14 ...

January 24, 2017 in Academy Awards / Nominations tagged Academy Awards / Fences / Hacksaw Ridge / La La Land / Nominations / Oscar Nominations by joeldamos

The Academy Awards put another ceremony in the record books and all told, it was a pretty good night for celebrating the magic of Hollywood. Chris Rock turned out to be the host with the most and The Movie Mensch’s Oscar Watch has to start with him. The host could not […]

Oscar Watch: 2016 Academy Awards, The Night in Review

February 29, 2016 in Academy Awards by joeldamos

Although Spotlight won Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay, the big winner from the 88th Annual Academy Awards was Mad Max: Fury Road. The George Miller directed masterpiece (which topped our top 15 of 2015) captured six golden statues to the Best Picture winner’s two. For more on the Oscars themselves, don’t […]

Oscars Winners: Spotlight, Mad Max: Fury Road Win Big

February 28, 2016 in Academy Awards tagged Academy Awards by joeldamos