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The 2025 Canadian Screen Awards | Contra Zoom
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The 2025 Canadian Screen Awards were handed out from May 30-June 1st and the television portion was hosted by Lisa Gilroy. Universal Language and The Apprentice were the big winners. We look at ten categories and discuss the winners and Dakota, Matthew and Jeff pick our own favourites. Real talk: most of the 2025…
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The 2025 Canadian Screen Award Nominees and Where to Buy, Rent, or Stream them
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The 13th Canadian Screen Award Nominees are here! This years main ceremony will take place on June 1st with comedian Lisa Gilroy hosting. Some stand outs among the nominees include Matthew Rankin’s Universal Language which scored a towering thirteen nominations and David Cronenberg’s The Shrounds with nine. Be sure to check out the Best…
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29th Annual Online Film & Television Association Film Award Winners
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This is my second year as a voting member of OFTA, and this years awards are now announced! The Online Film & Television Association has selected Anora as 2024’s best film. In addition, it was presented two other prizes. Sean Baker’s film about a exotic dancer who marries a Russian playboy who isn’t allowed to do…
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2025 Pandora International Critics Awards
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The 2025 Pandora International Critics Awards are my fourth as a voting member, and as in previous years, the winners are an exciting assortment of films and performers! Payal Kapadia’s acclaimed All We Imagine As Light took the top prize International Motion Picture. Coralie Fargeat continues to shake up the awards season with a Directing prize…
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The 2024 Canadian Screen Award Nominees and Where to Buy, Rent, or Stream Them | Awesome Friday
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It’s nearly time again for the Canadian Screen Awards, which will take place from May 28th to 31st, 2024. This year’s crop of nominees represents stellar Canadian filmmaking. Last year saw some changes in the acting categories. Last year, they were made gender-neutral (and the number of nominees increased to eight). This year, they…
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28th Annual Online Film & Television Association Film Award Winners
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This year, I joined the Online Film & Television Association and voted for their annual film awards, which have now been announced! The Online Film & Television Association has selected Oppenheimer as 2023’s best film. In addition, it was presented eleven other prizes. Christopher Nolan’s historical epic about the construction of the atomic bomb also claimed…
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2023 – 2024 International Film Society Critics Awards
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As a member in good standing, I was privileged to vote in the 2022-2023 International Film Society Critics Association Awards proceedings, both to determine the nominees and select the winners. I also wrote up the announcement post this year, where you can find a full list of the nominees and winners. The International Film…
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Oscars Special: The 2024 Academy Awards Predictions & Preferences | Awesome Friday Podcast
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Greetings programs! It’s that time of year, the Oscar Nominees have been announced! This week, we’re breaking down our preferences and predictions for (almost) every category of the 96th Academy Awards. Some of our choices line up, and some of them don’t, so take a listen to see if you agree with Matthew, Simon…
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2024 Pandora International Critics Awards
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This is my third year as a voting member of the Pandora International Critics, and this years awards have now been announced. I’m both proud and excited that Past Lives took the top prize and the Filmmaking Breakthrough Award, as well as recognizing Charles Melton, Andrew Scott, and Sandra Hüller, who, in my opinion,…
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2024 Oscar Nomination Reactions (#266) | Contra Zoom
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The 2024 Oscar nominations have now been announced with Oppenheimer, Poor Things, Killers of the Flower Moon, Barbie and Maestro leading the pack. We go over the big categories and discuss what we think of the crop of nominees including who our pleasant surprises were and biggest snubs. Joining the show is Matthew Simpson,…
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The 2023 CFTCA Best Cascadian Film Award Winner: Riceboy Sleeps | Cascadia Critics
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This year I co-founded the Cascadia Film & Television Critics Association, and as part of our launch we coordinated our membership to vote for the Best Cascadian Film Award, our premiere award highlighting the films of the region. I’m pleased to announce Riceboy Sleeps by director (and writer, editor, and actor) Anthony Shim as…
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The 2023 Canadian Screen Award Nominees and Where to Buy, Rent or Stream them | Awesome Friday
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The 11th Canadian Screen Awards are happening this coming Sunday! As with every year our great nation produces a ton of great movies, and this years crop of nominees is no different. They can be hard to find though, so if you haven’t had a chance to catch up with this years nominees then…
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2022 – 2023 International Film Society Critics Awards
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As a member in good standing of the International Film Society Critics I was pleased to vote in the proceedings to select the nominees and winners of this year’s awards. You can see the full list of nominees and winners here on the IFSCA Website.
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2023 Pandora International Critics Awards
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The 2023 Pandora International Critics Awards are my second as a voting member of the group. This year there was one particular film that dominated the conversation! We have to go back to the Academy Awards in 1972 when Cabaret took home 8 Oscars – including Best Director and two acting prizes – without the big…
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2022 Pandora International Critics Awards
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In 2021 I was invited to join the Pandora International Critics group and vote in their proceedings to select nominees and then winners for their third annual awards. Welcome to the Pandora International Film Critics awards for 2021. The36 members of the critics group have had to watch a lot of films to get where we…