Oscar

Mar 14, 2022 — The Power of the Dog is now the clear frontrunner in this year’s Oscar race.

Sep 30, 2021 — The Oscar-winning actor—whose one-hundredth birthday we’re celebrating on the Criterion Channel—embodied a mess of contradictions that have long been obscured by her reputation for unbending rectitude.

Jun 24, 2021 — Dustin O’Halloran is an Emmy-winning pianist and composer with four acclaimed solo albums under his own name. He’s also a member of the band A Winged Victory for the Sullen, with Adam Wiltzie. His film and television career began with...

Apr 12, 2021 — Chloé Zhao widens her lead in the Oscar race.

Oct 30, 2020 — In his tension-filled, black-comic Oscar winner, Bong Joon Ho masterfully mixes tones and subverts genres in order to shine a harsh light on the mechanisms that maintain class inequality.

Jun 10, 2020 — As we remember the first African American to win an Oscar on her 125th birthday, HBO Max temporarily removes the movie she won it for.

Feb 7, 2020 — This week, we’re looking back on the work of Antonioni, Fellini, Cassavetes, and Mrinal Sen. Plus: Oscar talk!

Jan 6, 2020 — 1917 is now repositioned as a late frontrunner in the Oscar race.

Nov 20, 2018 — In this video, the Oscar-winning director of The Shape of Water explains how the mix of terror and lyricism in Charles Laughton’s masterpiece went on to influence his own style.

Oct 9, 2018 — The Oscar-winning director of La La Land explains how an early encounter with À nos amours taught him to mix spontaneity and surprise into his own highly stylized worlds.