The Oscars - an alternative perspective
There are a couple of film critics in particular who constantly provide me with challenging, interesting critiques of films on release... and who happen to be Christians . One is, of course, Mark Kermode of BBC Radio 5 Live's Film Review show (a Methodist), who presides the show in tandem with straight man-foil and award-winning DJ in his own right, Simon Mayo. The other is Jeffrey Overstreet, American film critic, journalist and author (both of film-related books and fantasy novels). The latter recently posted on his website an article of Oscar Predictions, but not in the sense of actually predicting the winning films. He presents in a very clear-minded fashion the extent to which the Oscars can be and ar e influenced by non-artistic factors. He began as follows: ******** Based on my experience of watching and reading about the Academy Awards in past years, here are my Oscar predictions… BEST PICTURE Of the nine nominees, the Academy will give the Bes...