The Nighthawk Awards: 2022
You can read more about this year in film here. The Best Picture race is discussed here, with reviews of all the nominees. Films in red won the Oscar in that category (or Globe, in the Globes...
View ArticleThe Nighthawk Awards: 2021
You can read more about this year in film here. The Best Picture race is discussed here, with reviews of all the nominees. Films in red won the Oscar in that category (or Globe, in the Globes...
View ArticleBest Adapted Screenplay: 2021
“I like to be in America” My Top 10 West Side Story Nightmare Alley Cyrano The Power of the Dog Dune: Part One Spider-Man: No Way Home The Tragedy of Macbeth The Lost Daughter The Last Duel Shiva Baby...
View ArticleThe Nighthawk Awards: 2020
You can read more about this year in film here. The Best Picture race is discussed here, with reviews of all the nominees. Films in red won the Oscar in that category (or Globe, in the Globes...
View ArticleBest Adapted Screenplay: 2020
“Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.” (opening line) My Top 10 The Personal History of David Copperfield...
View ArticleThe Nighthawk Awards: 2019
You can read more about this year in film here. The Best Picture race is discussed here, with reviews of all the nominees. Films in red won the Oscar in that category (or Globe, in the Globes...
View ArticleBest Adapted Screenplay: 2019
My Top 10 Little Women Jojo Rabbit Toy Story 4 Avengers: Endgame The Man Who Killed Don Quixote A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood The Two Popes Les Miserables Captain Marvel Spider-Man: Far from...
View ArticleThe Nighthawk Awards: 2018
You can read more about this year in film here. The Best Picture race is discussed here, with reviews of all the nominees. Films in red won the Oscar in that category (or Globe, in the Globes...
View ArticleBest Adapted Screenplay: 2018
“I hope that nobody has ever had to look at anybody they love through glass.” (p 4) My Top 10 If Beale Street Could Talk First Man BlacKkKlansman A Star is Born Black Panther Paddington 2 Incredibles...
View ArticleOscar Season 2025
This worked! Elle got her deserved nomination! Well, the Oscar Season is arriving and more than anything I just wanted to provide a forum for people to make comments rather than people posting...
View ArticleThe Nighthawk Awards: 2017
You can read more about this year in film here. The Best Picture race is discussed here, with reviews of all the nominees. Films in red won the Oscar in that category (or Globe, in the Globes...
View ArticleBest Adapted Screenplay: 2017
” ‘I just played it the way Liszt would have played it had he jimmied around with it.’ ‘Just play it again, please!’ I liked the way he feigned exasperation. So I started to play the piece again.” (p...
View ArticleThe Nighthawk Awards: 2016
You can read more about this year in film here. The Best Picture race is discussed here, with reviews of all the nominees. Films in red won the Oscar in that category (or Globe, in the Globes...
View ArticleThe History of the Academy Awards: 1927-1939: Submitted Films
I am working on a very long-term project. How long-term? Well, I started it in September and, in one way of counting, I am 20.4% complete. I get a little more than two precent complete a month, so...
View ArticleThe Nighthawk Awards: 2015
One is so damn cute. One is just gorgeous. They are both in love. You can read more about this year in film here. The Best Picture race is discussed here, with reviews of all the nominees. Films in...
View ArticleOscars 2024 or Can We Get a Frontrunner Please?
I’ll end the suspense. This is my #1 film. Ah, this year’s Oscar race (please comment on this post for all 2024 Oscar race comments). It’s all about Emilia Peréz. No, wait, Wicked: Part 1 has such...
View ArticleA Century of Film: Picture
This is the prime award, where a group of people (or, in the case of the Nighthawk Awards, me) decide what the best film of the year is. It was complicated right from the start, of course, because...
View ArticleA Century of Film: The Top 1000 Films (#100-51)
The penultimate grouping of 50 has films that earn a 97 down through 2001. After that, they are a 98. The intro is here. Other parts can be found here. #100 Traffic Director: Steven Soderbergh...
View ArticleMy Original Top 100 Movies
Lists are not a new thing for me. Lists of the best films are not a new thing for me. I have been doing this for so long that some of my old lists look like the work of a different person. When...
View ArticleA Century of Film: The Top 1000 Films (#200-151)
Getting close to the (initial) end of the Top 1000 list. The introduction is here and the rest of the list can be found by going here. Films through Inglourious Basterds (#174) are a 95 which is high...
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