Patrick Goldstein is an American former film critic and columnist for the Los Angeles Times who wrote about movies in a column titled The Big Picture.
[1] Colleague Tom O'Neil described him as the newspaper's "chief Oscarologist" as his column focused largely on the doings of the Academy Awards.
[2] Goldstein and O'Neil had a long rivalry concerning the outcome of annual Academy Awards.
[3] Goldstein left the paper in 2012 after a change in management.
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