Oscars

Oscar winners Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz will duel in Best Supporting Actress with The Favourite The season’s biggest category question has finally been answered; Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz will compete in Supporting Actress for The Favourite while Olivia Colman gets bumped up to Lead. Appropriate that the two will battle against each other as they are also rivals …

Mahershala Ali in Green Book (Universal) Academy Award winner Mahershala Ali not only holds onto his #1 spot, he’s starting to look like a lock. Along with the Toronto International Film Festival’s People’s Choice Award win last month, Green Book just won another Audience Award, from the Mill Valley Film Festival, this week. He is looking very good for a …

The predictions for Animated Feature, Documentary Feature and Foreign Language Film have been live for a month (you can always check back here to see things change throughout the month) but today marks the first official predictions in those categories. Shortlists for Documentary Feature and Foreign Language Film will arrive on December 17th.  While Incredibles 2 seems like an easy …

This is the first month of official predictions for all below the line technical categories (although they have been live in the updating chart of predictions here) that will include: Film Editing, Cinematography, Production Design, Costume Design, Original Score, Original Song, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, Makeup & Hairstyling and Visual Effects. At the moment First Man, ROMA, A Star Is Born …

The Mule (Warner Bros) The top 4 of If Beale Street Could Talk, BlacKkKlansman, Can You Ever Forgive Me? and Boy Erased hold tight this month as Widows creeps back up and A Star Is Born finds a closer spot in the top 10.  Beautiful Boy falls out of the top 5 for the first time, despite the film’s strong …

After last week’s drops of trailers for Vice and The Mule, this week’s Frontrunner Friday brings us a few changes that may or may not affect the status of a handful of films and performances. The big news is that Annapurna suffered a big loss with the stepping down (firing?) of its president Chelsea Barnard this week as the fledgling …

Two big trailer drops both impact multiple Oscar races in this week’s Frontrunner Friday.  No country for old white men? Vice and The Mule aim to crash the Oscar race First was Vice, Adam McKay’s satire of the rise of Dick Cheney through the ranks of US government all the way up to his vice presidency under George W. Bush. We know Christian Bale is …

Frontrunner Friday has returned after a month to digest the impact that Venice, Telluride and Toronto had on the Oscar playing field and it was definitely substantial.  What it didn’t do, however, is solidify among us Oscar pundits an actual frontrunner. You ask one of us and they’ll say A Star Is Born has it. You ask another and it’s …

RBG (Magnolia) Previous…Foreign Language Film

ROMA (Netlfix) These are predictions for the 9-film shortlist from the Foreign Language Film committees which will be revealed in mid-December. This list includes official and unofficial submissions. The deadline for entries is October 1st. Previous…Animated Feature Next…Documentary Feature