As we noted back in December, the nominees for this year’s NAACP Image Awards line up pretty nicely with every other award show, and the big winners at this weekend’s two-night ceremony prove just how much of an impact shows and movies like Black-ish, The People V. O.J. Simpson, and Moonlight have had—not to mention…
Though the actors are taking the stage tonight for the Screen Actors Guild Awards, everybody in The Industry knows that the real people who make movies happen are the producers. So, in a way, the Producers Guild Awards are the biggest and most important honors of the whole awards season—especially if you are a…
When Norman Jewison’s Oscar-winning film In The Heat Of The Night was released in 1967, the world was a different place. Americans were embroiled in an acrimonious national conversation on race relations, white supremacist organizations were making alliances with law-enforcement agencies, and cinema was coming into…
A director’s job generally involves telling people what to do, so it stands to reason that directors would have a well-informed opinion on what things are worthy of awards. After all, what is an award but an attempt to tell people what to do or watch on a grand scale? That might not be the real reason that the…
More than two decades after the trial, 2016 gave us two new examinations of the O.J. Simpson case. One was American Crime Story: The People V. O.J. Simpson, an FX series from Ryan Murphy starring Cuba Gooding Jr. as Simpson, Sarah Paulson as prosecutor Marcia Clark, and David Schwimmer as a guy who says “Juice” a lot.…
The Golden Globes aren’t the first awards show of the season or the biggest, but people work really hard on movies and TV shows every year, so they deserve multiple opportunities to be highlighted for their cultural contributions. This year’s ceremony doesn’t have the added thrill of foreshadowing Leonardo DiCaprio’s…
Though it seems like it’s been in the works for a long time and should probably be in theaters soon, Marvel’s Black Panther movie is still over a year off. So, with all of that extra time, the studio might as well keep tossing more good actors into this thing until every ancillary character is played by someone you…
Yesterday, The A.V. Club ran down the first half of the year’s best television, from Last Week Tonight to You’re The Worst. Today: the best of the best, featuring robot cowboys, nasty women, and a dream team of legal and legal-adjacent shows grappling with moral, mental, and media crises.
It’s been a good 12 hours for La La Land. After the Ryan Gosling-Emma Stone musical cleaned up at the Critics Choice Awards last night, it went on to collect the most Golden Globe nominations of any film, seven in total, when those were announced by Anna Kendrick, Laura Dern, and Don Cheadle this morning. Damien…
The horror of the year we are about to depart has been well-established, but thanks to our swag table, we at The A.V. Club were not left empty-handed. Why, we received a variety of fun items, like: A Grand Tour air-freshener for our car! Donald Trump socks! A bottle of witch’s urine! An actual cow eye! Many, many…
After conquering the Emmys, The People V. O.J. Simpson has now moved on to the Critics’ Choice Awards. The series picked up six nominations, the most of any series, and is represented in all the limited series categories save for supporting actress. Its biggest rival is The Night Manager with five. Elsewhere, the…
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Critically and commercially successful shows like Making A Murderer, The Jinx, The People Vs. O.J. Simpson, and Serial have proven that what the public wants is real-life murder and plenty of it. In that spirit, Above Average has created a promo for The Murder Network (TMN), a sadly fictional channel aimed…
While there was still plenty of the “ol’ white men making jokes about diversity” schtick at the Emmys this year, there were at least some glimmers of hope for the future of Hollywood when it comes to queer representation in front of and behind the camera. Four queer women took home Emmys, which was a record in and of…
Generally, it’s not very easy to tell what the overall theme of an Emmy Awards ceremony is going to be until after Game Of Thrones or Modern Family start pulling in every award, but a specific theme started to take shape early on that then turned into a rallying cry when Transparent’s Jill Soloway won a directing Emmy…
The Emmy Awards for the cool and popular kids are happening next week, on September 18, but this weekend saw some of the best-ish and brightest-ish stars come out of their reasonably sized mansions for the Creative Arts Emmys, which have been expanded into a two-night event this year simply because one evening cannot…
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Sarah Paulson’s no stranger to Emmy nominations—she’s picked up an Outstanding Lead or Supporting Actress nod every year since 2012. But 2016 was a banner year for the Ryan Murphy-series stalwart, as she became a “double nominee” this year: Paulson is being recognized for her supporting work on American Horror Story:…
For centuries, orange juice has been the “healthy” or “mature” option for people who like to drink juice. Apple juice is a little too kid-oriented, grape juice is a disaster waiting to happen, and most other juices are primarily used for mixing in alcoholic beverages, but orange juice—or “OJ,” as its colloquially…
The members of the Television Critics Association paused their summer press tour today to honor the best in television from the past year, proving once more that such honors ought to be bestowed by the people who have their faces pressed against the medium for much of their waking hours. The big winner was FX,…
