If We Picked the Winners: Best Picture
Matt Zoller Seitz presents the RogerEbert.com pick for Best Picture: “12 Years a Slave”.
Festivals & Awards
Meant to Be Heard, Not Seen: The Invisible Performances Behind Foley Art
Katherine Kilkenny, one of the Roger Ebert Fellowship recipients at the Sundance Film Festival, talks to Foley artists about sound effects.
If We Picked the Winners 2014: Best Actress
Susan Wloszczyna presents the RogerEbert.com pick for Best Actress: Cate Blanchett.
If We Picked the Winners 2014: Best Actor
Odie Henderson champions Chiwetel Ejiofor as the Best Actor of 2013.
Documenting a Life: On Biographical Documentaries at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival
Three filmmakers talk about their different challenges in adapting for the screen from a novel, a memoir and histirical accounts.
The Book Was So Much Better: Adapting for the Screen
The makers of three films from the 2014 Sundance Film Festival muse on the challenges of adaptation.
If We Picked the Winners: Table of Contents
Links to all the essays about our picks for who deserves Oscars during this week-long event. Updated daily.
Messages from Abroad: Four Foreign Directors Discuss Their Relationship to American Films
Ebert Scholarship recipient Carlos Aguilar talks to four filmmakers from around the globe about American cinema,
American audiences, and their experiences at the 2014 Sundance Film
Festival.
If We Picked the Winners 2014: Best Director
Peter Sobczynski makes the case for Alfonso Cuaron to win the Oscar for Best Director.
If We Picked the Winners 2014: Best Documentary
Olivia Collette argues for The Act of Killing to be named the Best Documentary of 2013.
If We Picked the Winners 2014: Best Original Screenplay
Nell Minow makes the case for Best Original Screenplay for Spike Jonze’s “Her.”
How Much Attention Does BAFTA Deserve in the Oscar Race?
Erik Childress analyzes the impact of the recently-awarded BAFTAs on the Oscar race.
If We Picked the Winners 2014: Best Adapted Screenplay
Brian Tallerico champions “Before Midnight” for Best Adapted Screenplay.
If We Picked the Winners 2014: Best Supporting Actor
Omer M. Mozaffer champions Barkhad Abdi for Best Supporting Actor of 2013.
If We Picked the Winners 2014: Best Supporting Actress
Glenn Kenny champions Lupita Nyong’o for Best Supporting Actress of 2013.
Notes on Subjective Cinema at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival
Three films at the Sundance Film Festival explored the power of making the camera see from the perspective of someone in the film.
Ever Try to Make A Film Critic Smile During Awards Season?
Peter Bart has set up a straw-man argument about critics, Academy voters and “entertainment value.” Erik Childress takes it apart.
Guild Awards Keep the Best Picture a Horserace
The Producers Guild, the Writers Guild and the Directors Guild have all weighed in. How good are they as predictors of the Oscars?
Alex Ross Perry: Cynicism & Cinema
Director Alex Ross Perry (“Impolex”, “The Color Wheel”) discusses cinephilia, cynicism, artistic betrayal and the death of film.
Oscars: Sundancing Into Awards History Or Obscurity
Eirk Childress looks at the track record of films from the Sundance Film Festival going to the Oscars.
