It's award season and while we are in the midst of deciding what the best films of 2015 are sometimes it's interesting to look back.  So this week we are going to look back 10 years at the Oscar race of 2006.  Heading into the Oscars that year Brokeback Mountain was one of the most talked about films and easily the front runner.  Crash on the other had slowly been gaining momentum but released by Lionsgate who had no experience running an Oscar Campaign it was not expected to win much except possibly for screenplay.  But in one of the biggest upsets in Oscar history Crash beat Brokeback Mountain for Best Picture even though Ang Lee won Best Director.  It was one of the odd years when Best Picture and Best Director went to different movies. Oddly enough the same thing happened to Lee in 2013 when Lee when Best Director for Life of Pi but Argo won Best Picture.  

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by Stephen Milek

Oscar nominations will be announced next week and all the Oscar ballots have been submitted.  So it's time to start putting some predictions in writing.  I thought about waiting till the DGA announced their nominees and I might update it after they do but not sure how much will change.  I am pretty confident on most of these predictions.  Again these are based on current trends and previous nominations so far this Oscar season.  These are not my personal opinions since I have not seen most of the movies.  Unlike previous years I am only predicting a few of the major categories.  Not going to try to predict all of them.  
Let me know what you think.  

Later this year Milwaukee will see their first Women's Film Festival.  While still in the planning stage we are excited to  see what it will showcase.  We wanted to learn more about the festival so we asked festival director Andrea Thompson some questions in our latest edition of our 10 Questions With... series.  
For more info on the film fest check out the Facebook Page 
and if you have a film you want to submit check out the FilmFreeway page
and if you are interesting in sponsoring the festival let her know.  

by Stephen Milek

As 2016 begins lets take a look back at some of the biggest news stories of 2015.  The year started off with lots of controversy but the rest of the year we spend mostly talking about how much money movies were making.  Along the way we lost a few great celebrities.