Oscar Nominations 2018 – Winners and Losers
The nominees for the 91st Academy Awards have been announced! And of course, like any major announcement of awards or movie news, there will be things we loved and tragic oversights. So, here are some quick thoughts and observations on…
How the Academy is Missing the Mark
It’s been a couple of weeks since The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced it would be adding an additional category to its award ceremony and people are still debating and rolling their eyes about the decision. So…
Humble Disagreements With the 2018 Oscar Nominations
Let me start off by saying that “snub” is a pretty harsh word for most of these. I would also accept “oversights” or “tough calls.” With that said, here are five of my initial thoughts on films/directors/actors who I thought…
Oscar 2017 Pool– with Prizes!
The Oscars are just around the corner and the Reel World Theology team would love to have a picks pool with it’s awesome fans and listeners! To make things interesting, RWT has just acquired a few copies of Academy Award…
#126 – The 2016 Movie Year and a RWT Oscar Preview
On this episode of the Reel World Theology Podcast: As the 2017 Year in Film is just kicking off, we pause to take a look back at the year that was (2016). For what we hope will be a yearly…
Top 5 Directors 2016
The director is the only person who is involved in every aspect of making a movie. No matter how great a performance, how well-crafted a script, creative the editing, or cutting edge the special effects are, if the director is…
Top 5 Actors 2016
Of all the Top 5’s we’re doing this week, the Best Actor category may be the most predictable and also contains the most consensus among the RWT staff. Does that speak to the lack of great starring roles by men in…
Top 5 Actresses 2016
Our Top 5’s continue with a category slightly flipping the script on the recent Oscar-nominations. While the most-likely candidate to win the Oscar this year squeaked into our Top 5, we are still in shock over the snub of our…
Top 5 Supporting Actor 2016
After a creaking start to the first-half of 2016, the movies and performances picked up steam to near breakneck speeds in November through January. Which ends up being pretty funny since this category is heavy with movies from before November.…
Top 5 Supporting Actress 2016
In 2016, if there was ever a category needing a Top 5 instead of a Top 10, it is the Best Supporting Actress category. Multi-Oscar winners continued their incredible run of great performances and some surprising newcomers entered the conversation,…