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  • What The 2025 Oscar Season Can Teach Us About This Year’s Early Best Picture Contenders

    What The 2025 Oscar Season Can Teach Us About This Year’s Early Best Picture Contenders

    Going into the fall and winter, several movies are being projected as Oscar favorites and sure-fire nominees sight unseen, as per usual. But it is also per usual to have a lot of those preseason favorites collapse as soon as anyone sees them, and there were a lot of examples of that last season. As…


  • If I Had A 2026 Emmy Award Ballot…

    If I Had A 2026 Emmy Award Ballot…

    Today is the final day of voting for the 2026 Emmy Awards. It’s been a long and wild season, filled with ups and downs. We’ve conducted several interviews, shared our individual FYC considerations, and discussed the contenders endlessly, with our final winner predictions still to come on the Next Best Series Podcast. But today, I wanted…


  • The Next Best Picture Podcast – Interview With “Colony” Filmmaker Yeon Sang-ho

    The Next Best Picture Podcast – Interview With “Colony” Filmmaker Yeon Sang-ho

    “Colony” (Korean: 군체) is a 2026 South Korean action horror film directed and written by Yeon Sang-ho, with Choi Gyu-seok as co-writer. It stars Jun Ji-hyun, Koo Kyo-hwan, Ji Chang-wook, Kim Shin-rok, Shin Hyun-been, and Go Soo. The film explores the harrowing struggle of isolated survivors trapped in a building, quarantined amidst an unknown outbreak,…


  • The 2008 NBP Film Award Nominations

    The 2008 NBP Film Award Nominations

    Everyone has until before this weekend to vote on the 2008 NBP Film Community Award winners as a part of our 2008 retrospective. However, as heard earlier this week on the podcast, the Next Best Picture staff have also revealed our nominations for the 2008 NBP Film Awards. Voting on those has begun and we’ll…


  • “THE DOG STARS”

    “THE DOG STARS”

    THE STORY – After the world’s population has been ravaged by a pandemic, a man lives a lonesome existence in a Colorado airplane hangar with his dog and a dour gunman he has befriended. When a mysterious transmission comes through on the radio while he’s flying his old Cessna, it sparks a hunt for the provenance…


  • Every Series Nominee At The 2026 Emmys Ranked

    Every Series Nominee At The 2026 Emmys Ranked

    As Emmy voting draws to a close, now is the perfect time to take a look at all 21 TV shows nominated for the various Best Series awards. Here is my ranking of all of them – comedy, drama, and everything in between. 21. “Nobody Wants This” Season 2 The first season of “Nobody Wants…


  • Will The Academy Reward A Past Acting Oscar Winner Again This Year?

    Will The Academy Reward A Past Acting Oscar Winner Again This Year?

    It’s easy to assume that if an Oscar race comes down between someone who has won before and someone who hasn’t, the Academy would tend to prefer a newer winner. But when it comes to acting races, that really hasn’t been the case in the last decade, as seven of the last nine years have…


  • The New York Film Festival (NYFF) Adds “NAZA” To Its 2026 Main Slate

    The New York Film Festival (NYFF) Adds “NAZA” To Its 2026 Main Slate

    Film at Lincoln Center has added the North American premiere of “NAZA,” a new documentary film directed by Israeli filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor and produced by the Guardian, to the Main Slate of the 64th New York Film Festival. Presented by Film at Lincoln Center, the 64th New York Film Festival will take…