If a movie tackles weighty issues, tells a true story, or deals with sweeping/broad emotions, it might be Oscar ...

Variety similarly asked Superman stars Nathan Fillion (who plays Guy Gardner) and James’ brother Sean Gunn (who plays Maxwell ...

Some of these movies manage to rise above the formulaic expectations and actually deliver compelling, well-executed stories that justify their accolades. The key to a successful Oscar-bait movie ...

There's something of a science to getting your movie nominated for an Oscar. There's even a term for the sort of movie that gets released with a seeming expectation of being nominated, "Oscar bait." ...

It’s hard to definitively declare that movies are getting longer, but whether you’re watching a Marvel movie or “House of Gucci,” it feels like they are. A few reasons – from the death ...

Take a movie like The Danish Girl — which was probably tagged as Oscar bait more than any film last year, and which did, in fact, win an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.

And do any Oscar-nominated films this year meet the definition? Filmweek contributor and LA Weekly film critic Amy Nicholson joins John at Musso &… ...

While some actors really want that monumental Oscar moment (think Leonardo DiCaprio in every movie he was in from 2000-2015) others would rather have fun than play a stuffy old man living in the ...

Saoirse Ronan plays a British Rosie the Riveter looking for her 9-year-old son in what could almost be a middlebrow Oscar-bait movie from 1992. As a filmmaker, the British director Steve McQueen ...

But fellow shark movie connoisseurs know that it’s not enough to wait for a good film to come along. We must be dogged and relentless, wading through the worst of the worst in search of greatness.