Tag: Award

With fall film festival season underway this month and ushering in the beginning the Oscar chatter, many high quality movies that opened during the first two-thirds of the year can be overlooked. Up until recently, the first half of the year is no longer an Oscar wasteland. Tings have changed thanks to multiple Academy Award wins for movies like “Mad Max: Fury Road” and “The Grand Budapest Hotel.” If any movies from the first half of the year will receive multiple technical nominations, it could be Jon Favreau’s “The Jungle Book.”