Oscars

It’s all come down to this. With the 11 members of AwardsWatch’s Gold Rush Gang this year you’ll find quite a bit of unity in many categories, or at least 4/5 of the possible nominees. But, a few of our gang have really broken from the pack, sometimes being the lone vote in a category. Long choosing Blue Jasmine in ...

  Erik and Kenneth dish to the death in this epic Oscar podcast that covers the Golden Globe winners and our final (sort of) Oscar nomination predictions for this Thursday. Hold onto your wigs, ’cause it’s a long one.

Now that’s a mouthful, isn’t it? Here are the final winner predictions of the Gold Rush Gang, or most of them, at least. Lots of unity around major wins like Ejiofor, Blanchett, Leto and Screenplay but then some interesting disagreement over Dern vs. DiCaprio for Comedy/Musical Actor, Streep vs. Adams for Comedy/Musical Actress and for Original Score. The list: Gold ...

  On this podcast, recorded Friday, January 10, 2014, Erik, Ben and Long discuss the DGA and BAFTA nominations and their predictions for the Golden Globe winners this Sunday.

Through a haze of champagne, we are going to try to look ahead with our Gold Rush Gang today to Friday, when the Writers Guild of America brings us their nominations. Their myriad of eligibility rules always leads to a lot of screenplays being excluded from nominations (you can find some of this year’s casualties here), giving way to some fare ...

We are in the lull of the season, with most people either still digesting Christmas dinner or preparing their firecrackers for New Years Eve (except the good people of Central Ohio, it seems). But fear not, a week of important nominations is coming up, as the guilds begin to roll out their nominees. The PGA, WGA, and DGA all announce ...

The shortlist for the Foreign Language Film Oscar was revealed today and most notably for what was missing rather than what made it. Iran’s The Past, from Asghar Farhadi, was surprisingly snubbed. His A Separation won this award just two years ago and was seen as a frontrunner here. Also missing, and also a deemed front runner, was Saudi Arabia’s ...

With the first round of major industry and critics nominations revealed, the Gold Rush Gang has unleashed their updated predictions in all categories. Taking into account the Screen Actors Guild, the Golden Globes, the Broadcast Film Critics Association and the abundance of critics groups, the race between 12 Years a Slave vs. Gravity now seems to be 12 Years a ...

On this Oscar podcast, recorded Tuesday, December 17, 2013, Erik, Peter and Richard discuss the crazy week of SAG, Golden Globe and BFCA nominations. Who surprised, who stumbled and what happened to Amy Adams??

The Gold Rush Gang have a few things to say about the Golden Globe nominations, especially…what is going on with Supporting Actor?? After today’s Screen Actors Guild nominations the Gang went scrambling to check and re-check their predictions here. Will the rise of Barkhad Abdi and the fall of Bradley Cooper continue? Will James Gandolfini add a Golden Globe nomination ...