Ten Best Performances from 2014 not nominated for an Academy Award

Chris Pratt as Star Lord (Peter Quill)

Ten Best Performances from 2014 not nominated for an Academy Award

January 19, 2015
Nathan Swank

The 2015 Academy Award nominations were recently announced and as usual, there are plenty of people’s favorites absent from the list – No LEGO MOVIE for Best ...

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Inside Llewyn Davis

Ten Best Performances from 2013 Not Nominated for an Academy Award

January 17, 2014
Nathan Swank

The 2014 Oscar nominations didn’t have quite the thrilling stats and surprises as the 2013 nominations.  The solid year for films made for a great list of nominees...

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Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst in Spider-Man

Superman, Spider-Man, Back to the Future and the top ten most awkward kisses in film

October 8, 2011
Nathan Swank

by Nathan Swank When I was in 8th grade, a girl had her friends ask my friends if I liked her.  You can imagine my elated glee upon this news and I swiftly asked her if ...

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Ryan Gosling as Driver

Ryan Gosling, Leonardo DiCaprio, Michael Fassbender and the Top Ten Performances from 2011 not to receive an Oscar Nomination

February 18, 2012
Nathan Swank

The difficult thing about the Academy Awards is that it only lists the top five performances in a category.  With such a subjective field as acting, it is inevitable peo...

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Ryan Gosling in Remember The Titans

Ryan Gosling's top ten movie performances…so far

September 28, 2011
Nathan Swank

By Nathan Swank Picking Ryan Gosling’s best performance in a film is like choosing your favorite child… It’s always the most recent one.  Since Gosling is nothing ...

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Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe in The Nice Guys

Post Civil War: 10 movies still to look forward to this summer

May 12, 2016
Nathan Swank

Now that CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR has been released and lived up to our high expectations, what other summer movies do we have to look forward to?  That’s a great qu...

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Parasite wins big despite needing a host at a very random Oscars 2020

February 12, 2020
Nathan Swank

As a huge fan of the Academy Awards, I felt a little empty about this year’s telecast. That’s not to say there weren’t plenty of great moments about the evening. I ...

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Rise of the Planet of the Apes

Oscar Predictions Part 2: Visual Effects, Score, Cinematography and other Technical Awards

February 22, 2012
Nathan Swank

Moving on to Part 2 of our Academy Award Predictions will consist of all the technical awards.  Many might find these to be quite boring however sometimes this is the on...

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A Separation

Oscar Predictions Part 1: Documentaries, Foreign Language Film and Animated Feature

February 21, 2012
Nathan Swank

It’s Oscar week!  A favorite time of year for us here at Flix66, where our movie judgments get to be reinforced or slapped in the face by Academy members. Throughout t...

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Birdman

Oscar Breakdown: Predictions for the 2015 Academy Awards

February 19, 2015
Nathan Swank

The technical awards is where people win or lose their Oscar bracket. Usually everyone has a fairly good idea who will win the “big” awards. But the technical...

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