Why Stunt Performers Should Be Recognized by the Oscars with an Awards Category?
Photo: Stunts I think we can all agree that stunt performers are some of the key ingredients in making action movies what they are. Every year at the Academy Awards 24 different teams and individuals are presented with an award for their work on certain films from...
The Few Times Humorists Have Scored Academy Gold: A Short List of Comedic Oscar-Winners
Video Version of this Article Photo: Comedic Oscar-Winners Winning an Oscar by making us laugh. What a way to make a living! What makes a performance “Oscar-worthy”? Many often leap to sustained emotional investment or comprehensively immersive transformations as the...
Oscars and Sad Movies: What Happened to the Uplifting Awards Contenders?
Video Version of this Article Photo: Oscars and Sad Movies Joy and happiness are Oscar worthy. It has happened and should happen more often. I want to first get this out of the way and establish that I am a massive fan of all the potential awards nominees this year....
Let’s Give Film Choreographers the Credit They Deserve – An Oscar Category?
Video Version of this Article Photo: Choreographers I think it is about time. Many projects to come out in the past year on television and in film have had many elements of dance in them. ‘Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist’ had several dance numbers per episode, ‘In the...
