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2014 Oscar Winners

2014 Oscar Winners

By Dustin Jansick

The big winner Oscar Sunday was Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity, winning seven awards including Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, and Best Visual Effects. Though for the second year in a row, the winner for Best Director did not go on to win the top prize of Best Picture. Instead the honors went to 12...

2014 Spirit Award Winners

2014 Spirit Award Winners

By Dustin Jansick

Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave was unsurprisingly the big winner at the Film Independent Spirit Awards today with a total of five wins including, Best Feature, Best Director,...

Giveaway: American Hustle Original Soundtrack

Giveaway: American Hustle Original Soundtrack

By Dustin Jansick

David O. Russell’s American Hustle hauled in an impressive ten Oscar nominations this year, which tied Gravity with the most nominations for a motion picture. In order to commemorate...

Oscars 2014 Predictions

Oscars 2014 Predictions

By Dustin Jansick

Over the past several weeks we have provided an extensive individual breakdown for all of the major Oscar categories. Today we have compiled our 2014 Oscars Predictions on a...

‘Ghostbusters’ Harold Ramis Dead at 69

‘Ghostbusters’ Harold Ramis Dead at 69

By Ananda Dillon

Harold Ramis, the actor, writer and director whose films include Stripes, Ghostbusters, Groundhog Day and Caddyshack, has died at the age of 69 from complications related to autoimmune inflammatory...

Oscar Analysis 2014: Best Picture

Oscar Analysis 2014: Best Picture

By Dustin Jansick

Last week we predicted that Gravity’s Alfonso Cuarón would get the win for Best Director, so historically speaking that would mean Gravity should have a 73% chance of winning...

Oscar Analysis 2014: Best Director

Oscar Analysis 2014: Best Director

By Dustin Jansick

It requires a lot of restraint for me not to put down Steve McQueen as the director that should win the award on Oscar night. I believe he is...

SF Indiefest Capsules: Hide Your Smiling Faces, Bluebird, More

SF Indiefest Capsules: Hide Your Smiling Faces, Bluebird, More

Hide Your Smiling Faces Set in a beautifully photographed forested town in the rural North East, Hide Your Smiling Faces by Daniel Patrick Carbone is a moving, richly atmospheric coming-of-age...

Oscar Analysis 2014: Best Actor

Oscar Analysis 2014: Best Actor

What started out as one of the most competitive categories of the Oscar race is looking to be the easiest one to predict. The Oscar statue is now Matthew...

BAFTA Awards: ‘Gravity’ & ’12 Years A Slave’ Take the Most Trophies

BAFTA Awards: ‘Gravity’ & ’12 Years A Slave’ Take the Most Trophies

By Ananda Dillon

The 67th British Academy Film Awards was this past Sunday, February 16th. Sometimes providing a potential glimpse at what Oscar night may bring, the winners were fairly safe bets...

Joanna Arnow Talks Baring All in “i hate myself :)” (SF Indiefest)

Joanna Arnow Talks Baring All in “i hate myself :)” (SF Indiefest)

i hate myself 🙂 begins with New York filmmaker Joanna Arnow aiming her camera at her first boyfriend James, a crude, oft-drunk showman who enjoys screaming the n-word to...

Oscar Analysis 2014: Best Actress

Oscar Analysis 2014: Best Actress

The one question on everyone’s mind about Best Actress is, “Can we give this to Cate Blanchett already so we can all go home?” It’s another easy category to...

Oscar Analysis 2014: Best Documentary

Oscar Analysis 2014: Best Documentary

If there’s one thing in common between Best Foreign Film and Best Documentary, it’s that no matter what you’re gonna piss somebody off. That’s what happened this year when...

SF Indiefest Capsules: Proxy, A Field in England, More

SF Indiefest Capsules: Proxy, A Field in England, More

A Field in England Ben Wheatley’s fever dream of a film, A Field in England, will have you scraping your brain off of the floor by the time the end...

SF Indiefest: Opening Night, The Congress

SF Indiefest: Opening Night, The Congress

SF Indiefest kicked off its “Sweet 16” celebration at the beautiful Brava Theater last night with a screening of Ari Folman’s The Congress, a buzzing after party in the theater...

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