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Oscars 2018: Live Blog

Oscars 2018: Live Blog

Published March 4, 2018 By Linda Marric

Follow our live blog and find who won what as the night progresses.

You can have a look at all of the nominees we have reviewed,  the Screenwords predictions, and all of our writers’ “best of 2017” thoughts meanwhile.

And of course @screen_words and founding editor @linda_marric will be on Twitter into the small hours.

Winners in bold.

Best Picture:

Call Me by Your Name
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
Get Out
Lady Bird
Phantom Thread
The Post
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

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Oscars 2018: Our Predictions

Oscars 2018: Our Predictions

Published March 2, 2018 By Rachael Kaines

Rachael Kaines shares her Oscars 2018 wish list.

The Oscars are here again. After the snafu of last year and the extremely unlikely event of the voters actually picking the best film for best film, all bets are off this year. “Oscar bait” films seem to be doing worse year on year, which makes for much better pickings and increasingly harder to predict winners.

Here are some predictions, or rather a wish list of sorts. (predictions are in bold)

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Film Review: A Fantastic Woman

Film Review: A Fantastic Woman

Published March 2, 2018 By Linda Marric

Reviewed by Linda Marric

A few films have managed to garner the kind of good will directed at Chilean filmmaker Sebastián Lelio’s brilliantly well observed feature A Fantastic Woman. Nominated for a foreign language Oscar at this weekend’s Academy Awards, the film offers a wonderfully complex, engaging and thoroughly affecting account of a young trans woman’s battle against preconceived ideas about gender and sexuality in a traditional latin society. Staring transgender actress Daniela Vega in the principle role, A Fantastic Woman is as innovative in its story telling as it is tender in its dealings with issues relating to grief and loss. 

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Film Review: The Nile Hilton Incident

Film Review: The Nile Hilton Incident

Published March 1, 2018 By Rachael Kaines

Reviewed by Rachael Kaines

Tarik Saleh delivers with The Nile Hilton Incident a compelling and taut thriller, that manages to remain engaging and unpredictable right up to its end. The transportation of the specific Scandi thriller style, with all its preoccupation with corruption and mistreatment of unseen minorities to Egypt works very well. A lot of the issues this type of thriller tends to deal, corruption and accountability for crimes, with are tangible and pervasive in the pre-revolutionary Cairo in which the film is set.

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