2012 SoundSpec Awards

Jessie Ware co-leads with 5 noms.

Blind Spot: This Is Not A Film (2012)

Panahi's Film is something special.

Movie Song of the Week

Movie Song of the Week

Blind Spot: Tabu (2012)

Tabu is beautiful, but kind of disappointing.

2012 SoundSpec Awards

Jessie Ware leads with 4 wins.

Review: Wild Girl Waltz (2012)

Tara, Brian and Angie on their day out.

Directed by Mark Lewis
Produced by Mark Lewis
Written by Mark Lewis
Starring Christina Shipp, Samantha Steinmetz and Jared Stern

Five Films in Five Words #6

Here are some newer releases.

Ranking the Sherlock Episodes

Cumberbatch and Freeman as Holmes and Watson.

In honor of Star Trek Into Darkness' release in a few days, here's a post related to Benedict Cumberbatch, who plays the villain in J.J Abrams' new film. Though this is a TV series, each episode is really a 90-minute film for television, so I don't mind bending the rules.

Oscar Oddity #9: Argo's Best Picture Win

"And the stats just keep on comin'."

85th Oscar Winners Announced

Argo won 3 awards, including Best Picture.

Another Oscar season has come and gone, with the frontrunner Argo taking Best Picture. Though the ceremony had its ups and downs (and ran over), I think it went quite smoothly overall. But I don't foresee Seth MacFarlane as next year's host. At least he made Tommy Lee Jones laugh.

Ranking the 85th Oscar Nominees

Lincoln has 12 noms, but would I give it any wins?

This year I've managed to see most Oscar-nominated films, except for 2 feature documentaries, 4 foreign language films, and the documentary short nominees. Since the ceremony is just hours away, I thought I'd share my rankings of each category (the films I haven't seen notwithstanding). These are my personal preferences, but my final predictions can be found here.

Final 85th Oscar Predictions

Could my November prediction come true?

Well, the time is finally here. Back in November, I predicted Argo would win 4 Oscars, including Best Picture. It's possible the film will accomplish that after all. Here are my final predictions.

Early Oscar Predictions Results

In June 2012, I predicted 7 Oscar nods for The Master.

For the past few years, I've predicted the Oscar nominations several months before the nominees are announced. I didn't publish these June 2012 predictions in a post, but, thankfully, I found them in my page drafts. So, here's how I did predicting the 85th Academy Award nominees (original predictions included) seven months ahead of time.

10 Things to Know Before the Oscar Ceremony

The 85th Oscar ceremony is only a week away. Here are some stats and reminders to keep in mind for the event next Sunday.

Reaction: The Imposter, Liberal Arts & The Paperboy (2012)

The Imposter (dir. Bart Layton)

Oscar Oddity #8: The Documentary Streak

Last year's doc winners for Undefeated.

The 85th Oscar nominations have yielded another odd stat.

2012 CinSpec Awards

Holy Motors (dir. Leos Carax)

Now that I've posted my top 10 list, here is my 2012 awards ballot. Not surprisingly, the leaders this year are Cloud Atlas and Holy Motors with 8 and 7 nominations apiece. However, I like to spread the love, so there should be a surprise or two.

Note: Winners are in yellow. You can click on the images to enlarge them.

If you missed them, you can also check out my updated 2011 and 2010 ballots.

Updated: 7/22/15

Top 10 Films of 2012

The Master (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson)

Let's get right to it. 2012 was a solid year for films, ranging from highbrow ones like The Master to genre fare like The Raid: Redemption. In fact, I had a really hard time narrowing my list to ten, so I've included the also-rans below. There are some films, such as Barbara, Sister, The Intouchables, Tabu, and Wuthering Heights, that I won't see for weeks or even months, but this list is pretty close to official.

2012 Ratings Archive

Argo (dir. Ben Affleck)

Here's my ratings/reviews for all of the 2012 films I've seen (based on U.S. release dates). I'll update this as I see more, but you can find this post linked on the Reviews page.