Oscars 2018: The Imaginative, Thoughtful, and Timely Nominated Films

The Oscar nominations were announced this morning, and it’s an electrifying list. The breadth and depth of stories this year was stunning, and the talent on and off screen gets better every year. As it did at the Golden Globes, The Shape of Water leads the nominations with a total of 13. Black Panther cinematographer, Rachel Morrison, became the first female nominated for Cinematography for her work on the powerful Mudbound.

Can We Predict The Oscars? Social Media Reveals Who The Public’s Rooting For

They are known as quants (short for ‘quantitative analyst), and their undisputed supreme leader, at least in the public’s perception, is Nate Silver. You’ve heard of Silver, the man who went from relative obscurity before the 2008 presidential election to a household name thanks to his pinpoint accuracy predicting the last two presidential elections.

Quants are not just employed to help us figure out who the next Commander in Chief is going to be,

An Evening With George Stevens Jr., Celebrating his Honorary Oscar and his Remarkable Career

George Stevens Jr. has lived and breathed films since he was a child. His father, the legendary director George Stevens, instilled in Steven fils a love of story. It was a teenage George Jr. who paced around his father’s bed one night, excitedly telling him the truncated story of a book he had read that his father should turn into a movie. That movie turned out to be the legendary western