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The 2017 British Film Academy Awards are this Sunday with Stephen Fry making his 12th appearance as host. La La Land leads the nominations with 11, followed by Arrival and Nocturnal Animals with nine apiece. La La Land was nominated for a record-tying 14 Oscar nominations; Arrival earned eight, Nocturnal Animals just one – amazingly, not one that it earned at ...

The Directors Guild of America (DGA) and the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) are announcing their winners at ceremonies tomorrow night (February 4th) but it almost seems perfunctory. The DGA is the last of the three major guilds (along with SAG and PGA) that guide us to the eventual Best Picture winner and La La Land currently has the PGA ...

The Producers Guild of America and the Screen Actors Guild both gave out their awards last weekend and La La Land‘s win at the PGA came as a surprise to no one but Hidden Figures besting Moonlight at SAG was. Not a shock, really, the film is a huge populist hit and SAG loves that. It also loves Best Picture ...

The 22nd Screen Actors Guild Awards are Sunday night and if last year proved anything, we should always be ready for surprises. Chicago, the last musical to win Oscar’s Best Picture, took home three awards in 2003: Ensemble, Actress in a Leading Role (Renee Zellweger) and Actress in a Supporting Role (Catherine Zeta-Jones). La La Land can’t pull off the top ...

This time last year I was predicting The Revenant to win the Producers Guild of America’s top honor while the rest of the Gold Rush Gang was predicting Spotlight to win. Neither happened, of course, as The Big Short shocked all of us and took the prize. But then, last year was a crazy year. A different film won each ...

Here are the FINAL results of the Forum Oscar Polls in the top 8 categories for the 2017 Oscars, listed in alphabetical order. BEST PICTURE Arrival Fences Hacksaw Ridge Hell or High Water Hidden Figures La La Land Lion Manchester by the Sea Moonlight     BEST DIRECTOR Damien Chazelle, La La Land Garth Davis, Lion Barry Jenkins, Moonlight Kenneth ...

Since the Best Picture expansion and preferential ballot usage in 2011 that would give us 5-10 nominees, we haven’t had either just five or a full 10 Best Picture nominees. We’ve had 9 the first three years and eight for the last two years. I think it’s safe to predict either 8 or 9 this year as well. La La ...

The nominations for the 89th Academy Awards are just one week away and I’m getting very close to a final set of predictions. There really isn’t much happening between now and then in terms of guilds or new awards nominations and voting has been closed for four days now so it’s as good a time as any to unleash them. ...

On Tuesday, the Producer’s Guild of America (PGA) released their nominations for best motion picture of the year. These are looked upon, given their impressive track record, with considerable interest. But they’re also going to be the first industry preferential ballot of the 2016-2017 season. This year’s race for Best Picture is looking very much like La La Land’s to lose; ...

It’s Friday, January 13th, a scary day for some but for none more than for Oscar hopefuls as today at 5pm PST the voting closes for this year’s Academy Award nominations. This year’s voting period, extended a week from last year, fell right in the middle of the Golden Globe winners as well as BAFTA, Producers Guild and Directors Guild ...