Alissa Wilkinson
Former Senior Correspondent + Critic
Latest articles by Alissa Wilkinson
Figure out what the Academy Awards are for before you do another one.
The family drama is a hugely unlikely Best Picture winner. But it sort of makes sense.
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy explores the startling role of pure luck in our lives.
The Licorice Pizza director has made beautiful loners out of Haim, Fiona Apple, Radiohead, and more.
Before the Oscar nominee was in The Lost Daughter, she starred in the terrific Wild Rose.
Bad Vegan, Inventing Anna, The Dropout, and the real point of the flourishing genre.
How the Best Picture nominee digs into Murakami and Chekhov.
A tale of two moral universes.
Hollywood’s going global, but its biggest awards are still provincial.
How do you get an Oscar? Who’s going to win Best Picture? Why wasn’t Spider-Man nominated?