Oscar For Best Picture

Oscars 2022: Licorice Pizza addresses age gap between partners but steers clear of predatory behaviour

Licorice Pizza feels like a coming-of-age film not for the teenage character but the adult Alana, who has been floating through life passively, as the object of one casual butt slap after another.

Oscars 2022: With seven Best Picture nominations being adaptations, literature emerges as ripe source of storytelling

From Dune and Drive My Car to West Side Story and CODA, seven out of 10 Best Picture nominations at Oscars 2022 are adaptations of books, short stories, musicals or films.

Lessons from Parasite: Let's talk about 1917, Marriage Story and the art of Oscar-nominated closeted conservatism

Parasite's Oscar win may spark a discussion on other nominees in the Best Picture category that preferred to speak in binaries while pretending not to do so — films like 1917 and Marriage Story, that faked nuance while in fact telling a one-sided story | Anna MM Vetticad writes

Oscars 2019: Winning at the Academy Awards is more about appealing to the middlebrow than making art

The Oscars seem to be awarded for some shifting blend of popular appeal, accessibility and a set of signifiers which suggest quality. Writer Virginia Woolf once satirised this balancing act as the “middlebrow”.

Oscars 2018: The Florida Project is the gem that most Academy voters, and audiences, won't see

Why haven't so many of us watched this tiny miracle of a film? | The Florida Project

Oscars 2017 recap: Politics, fake rivalries, and the mother of all faux pas

From the Jimmy Kimmel-Matt Damon rivalry to Casey Affleck's underwhelming speech, and the big Best Picture goof-up, here's a quick recap of Oscars 2017

Oscars 2017 winners complete list: Emma Stone, Casey Affleck, Damien Chazelle, Moonlight

This is the complete list of Oscars 2017 winners. From Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Picture and Best Director, see who took home the top prize at the 89th Academy Awards.