Oppenheimer is already proving to be among director Christopher Nolan’s best works, with the 2023 epic biographical thriller earning 13 Oscar nominations this year. The film is centered on ...
For a while, David Lean made films that could well be considered pretty lean, as far as their runtimes were concerned. He gradually earned his reputation as one of the best British filmmakers of ...
Epic scale is a measure of the scope of a character's inner journey. Look, for example, at Sydney Pollack's classic, Jeremiah Johnson, one of my all-time favorites. The film has very few characters ...
Shot for less than $10 million, the almost four-hour epic won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival and took home Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Director at the Golden Globes.
"We've seen epic filmmaking do well at the Oscars in every decade," says Karie Bible, box office analyst at Exhibitor Relations. "The very first film to win best picture in 1927 was an aviation ...