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Our panel of film experts is back to predict what contenders will be getting Oscar attention and to spotlight the films and talent they hope don’t get overlooked in 10 Academy Awards categories.
The animated feature adapted from the popular children’s books crafts a lovely, bittersweet parable of parenting.
The two youngest people to write a Disney song score and one of the most-nominated female songwriters in Oscar history are in this year’s original song mix.
In another year of wildly varied animated features, Japan, Australia, Great Britain and the planet Cybertron send us their best.
The makers of the highest-grossing animated film ever put a lot of their families — and themselves — into the movie’s exploration of puberty blues.
Clément Ducol and Camille whip up a suite of songs in a surprising range of genres that suit one of the year’s more surprising films.
‘Out of Oklahoma,’ the song she co-wrote for the movie, evokes a long drive on a flat, open highway and aligns with the protagonist’s journey.
‘Bob Marley: One Love’ focuses on the music legend’s life. In reading the script, Lashana Lynch realized Rita Marley was ‘imperative’ to his journey.
Joaquin Phoenix, Lady Gaga and co-writer-director Todd Phillips bend the architecture of the comic-book origin story toward a musical, not all that tunefully.
Featuring inspired vocal performances by Lupita Nyong’o, Pedro Pascal and a deep cast of animation veterans, Chris Sanders’ warm adventure approaches sublimity.
