Oscar® Nominations: 2018

It is time for one of the most prestigious film awards of the year: the list of Oscar®-nominated films has been announced! There are both surprises and expected additions, as well as some insane snubs (How The Greatest Showman got only one nomination is beyond me, and no mention of Girls Trip at all? Come on…). There will be plenty of Oscars® content to come before the award ceremony on March 4, but for now, you can form your own opinions on what will and will not take home that golden statue. To see Reeltalk’s take on nominated films, follow the links at the bottom of the page.

Trivia: The Shape of Water leads for most nominations at 13 (the same as last year’s La La Land).

Lady Bird Masters Our Memory

If there is any film that deserved to the quintessential coming-of-age, high school film, it is most definitely Lady Bird. Not only does it evoke memories of the audiences’ own experiences throughout their late childhood, but it does so without needing to resort to a fabricated, fantastical idea of what that time in your life is like. It is not a forced and exaggerated adventure, like the kind made popular with Mean Girls (2004), Easy A (2010) or Paper Towns (2015) – this is the story of wanting an adventure, and realizing that you have been living one all along. It might not be amazing or world-changing, but it is your life that is changing, and stepping back to watch it happening to someone else makes you realize just how wonderful that stage of life was, even when it hurt.