Film Awards

The Final Word From Cannes

Nicolas Cage: Woman Fighter

The AFI Top 100 Films -- And The Top Ten Movies Filmed in Colorado

Glen Hansard Nominated for an Oscar

The Swell Season Caps a Swell Season

Harden's Crossing

She's finally been invited to the Oscar party, but what will she do after the ball?

Best Oscar-night performance by a Coloradan

Trey Parker

Q&A with Nothing But the Truth director Rod Lurie

Vera Farmiga and Kate Beckinsale in director Rod Lurie's Nothing But the Truth. Director Rod Lurie has had Colorado on his mind in recent years. His 2007 film Resurrecting the Champ, co-starring Josh Hartnett and Samuel L. Jackson (with a cameo by John Elway), was partially filmed in Denver and bas ... More >>

Big Screen Bash

See all five Oscar-nominated best picture films in one day.

Party Like a Rock Star

The Denver Film Society hosts an Oscar-night bash.

The Fugitive Kind

The Denver Film Society hosts an Oscar-night bash.

Rock On

Comedian Chris Rock offers no apologies.

Oscar Night Done Right

Neighborhood Flix has the perfect party planned.

All I Want for Christmas

Neighborhood Flix has the perfect party planned.

Cannes Film Festival 2007

Cannes 2007 was a success, but how many of its movies will you actually get to see?

Gay Caballeros

You won't be able to quit this Oscar party.

X Marks the Spot

You won't be able to quit this Oscar party.

Life of the Party

You won't be able to quit this Oscar party.

Oscar-nominated documentaries

Starz FilmCenter in the Tivoli

Scattered Dour

The Weather Man's a comedy, but not that kind.

Fat Joe

All or Nothing (Atlantic)

Flick Pick

Oscar Shorts 2005

Flick Pick

Comédies à la Française

Pop Quiz

Heaven and Helluloid
February 26, 2004

Nowhere, Ma'am

A focus on the wrong woman hinders the otherwise beautiful Nowhere in Africa.

Flick Pick

Starz FilmCenter

Up the Academy

The Oscar telecast has, for a decade, been Gil Cates' golden moment

The Tired Gun

Or: Why winning an Oscar sometimes means losing a career

Murder to Sit Through

Or: Why winning an Oscar sometimes means losing a career

Thrills for the week

Or: Why winning an Oscar sometimes means losing a career

Slice of Life

Or: Why winning an Oscar sometimes means losing a career

Slumdog, Denver Style

Or: Why winning an Oscar sometimes means losing a career

Oscar Wild

Or: Why winning an Oscar sometimes means losing a career

Party Arty

Or: Why winning an Oscar sometimes means losing a career

Precious nominations put Colorado in Oscar spotlight

Gary Magness and Lee Daniels share a "Precious" moment at the Denver Film Festival.​This year's Oscar nominations are out, and Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire earned six nods, including Best Actress (Gabourey Sidibe), Best Supporting Actress (Mo'Nique), Best Editing, Best Adapt ... More >>

Temple Grandin, Colorado cow whisperer, gets local premiere of HBO biopic

Trailer Precious, which just earned a Best Picture Oscar nomination for Colorado producers Sarah Siegel-Magness and Gary Magness, and The Cove, directed by Boulder's Louie Psihoyos and nominated as Best Documentary Feature, aren't the only high-profile flicks with local connections. This Saturday, ... More >>

And the Winner Is…

Trailer Precious, which just earned a Best Picture Oscar nomination for Colorado producers Sarah Siegel-Magness and Gary Magness, and The Cove, directed by Boulder's Louie Psihoyos and nominated as Best Documentary Feature, aren't the only high-profile flicks with local connections. This Saturday, ... More >>

The MTV Movie Awards were last night, but who cares?

While you were out enjoying the lovely weather last night, MTV aired its 19th annual Movie Award show. The broadcast featured such thought provoking awards as "Most WTF Moment" and "Best Villain." We're pretty certain the MTV Movie Awards haven't actually mattered to anyone for the better part of ... More >>

The ten worst movies nominated for a 2011 Golden Globe

​The 68th Golden Globe Awards will be handed out this Sunday. It's a contractual obligation that all televised awards shows do not reward quality, and this will be no different; plenty of shitty movies will wind up being allowed to slap Golden Globe Winner on their DVD packaging. Of course, t ... More >>

Oscar nominations for Best Picture: 2011 vs. 2010

​The Academy Award nominations are out and they're pretty much what you expected: The King's Speech, Black Swan, The Social Network, etc. This is the second year of the expanded ten movie Best Picture category. And as these things go, the ten nominees are not a bad indication of what stuck wi ... More >>

How to make an Oscar-winning film: a flow chart

​The Oscar Nominations are out for this year and, as in all years that have preceded it, this one offers no surprises. It's a relatively unknown fact, but there is a very specific formula for making an Oscar nominated film -- so specific, in fact, we've made a flow chart that plots in out in d ... More >>

A Reel Good Time

​The Oscar Nominations are out for this year and, as in all years that have preceded it, this one offers no surprises. It's a relatively unknown fact, but there is a very specific formula for making an Oscar nominated film -- so specific, in fact, we've made a flow chart that plots in out in d ... More >>

Oscars 2011: The Fighter shows that the Academy establishment is changing

​The Oscar Nominations are out for this year and, as in all years that have preceded it, this one offers no surprises. It's a relatively unknown fact, but there is a very specific formula for making an Oscar nominated film -- so specific, in fact, we've made a flow chart that plots in out in d ... More >>

Oscars vs. Razzies: What does better at the box office?

​This weekend, the best and worst of 2010 in film will be categorically determined (right...) by the Academy and Golden Raspberry Awards, respectively. And while statues are nice, everyone knows that money guides filmmaking to a much greater degree than accolades. So we were wondering -- does ... More >>

Top 10 list of Colorado movies a ten-cent ticket fee didn't subsidize

"The Searchers."​The Colorado legislature just nixed a plan to tack a ten-cent fee onto movie tickets, money that would have been used to provide financial incentives for film companies that want to make movies in this state. As revised, the bill would now ask for donations from movie-goers -- ... More >>

Oscars 2011: Live-blogging the self-congratulatory golden phallus ceremonies

They've been doing this for EIGHTY-THREE years?!?​ There are a lot of things more important than watching and liveblogging the 2011 Academy Awards - but none of them are things we have to do today. Look for our recap after the show!

Oscars 2011: The red-carpet fashion of the stars

Black Swan's Natalie Portman.​The best part of the annual Academy Awards is arguably the red-carpet fashion, and this year, stars were showcasing a variety of couture gowns. Bright reds and tangerines dominated the pre-Oscar parade, with some purple trimming and light, ethereal dresses to coun ... More >>

Ten people who should host the 2012 Oscars

At least they make decent movies.​Is it time to already begin thinking about next year's Academy Awards show? Well, if you're like most Americans -- and critics, the venerable Roger Ebert among them -- who watched last night's show, then the answer is "yes." The hipster hosts, 28-year-old An ... More >>

One Day doesn't offer much in the way of guilty pleasures

At least they make decent movies.​Is it time to already begin thinking about next year's Academy Awards show? Well, if you're like most Americans -- and critics, the venerable Roger Ebert among them -- who watched last night's show, then the answer is "yes." The hipster hosts, 28-year-old An ... More >>

Starz Denver Film Festival 2011: Five red carpet events, Big Night screening of The Descendants

"The Descendants."​Next Monday, October 17, the Starz Denver Film Festival's website will go live with the entire 2011 lineup, and it's a hefty one: a whopping 260 flicks will unspool November 2-13. But today, fest executive director Tom Botelho offers us a preview of the highest profile movi ... More >>