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Gold Rush Gang 2016 Oscar Predictions: BEST ACTOR (June)

Erik Anderson June 4, 2015

Some big changes this month in Best Actor. The top two guys, Eddie Redmayne in The Danish Girl and Leonardo DiCaprio in The Revenant are... Read More

Retrospective: Worst Picture/Best Picture Series – Rambo: First Blood Part II and Out of Africa (1985)

Jeff Beachnau May 29, 2014

Rambo: First Blood Part II and Out of Africa were both released in 1985, two action packed motion pictures that blew audiences away. In one... Read More

Contender or Pretender Series: A Most Violent Year

Erik Anderson March 27, 2014

Welcome back to Contender or Pretender 2014, an Awardswatch series where, in each entry, we profile a different 2014 film and try to determine whether... Read More

Retrospective: Worst Picture/Best Picture Series – Can’t Stop the Music and Ordinary People (1980)

Jeff Beachnau March 20, 2014

Welcome to a new Awardswatch series, Worst Picture/Best Picture from the mind of Jeff Beachnau. In 1929, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences... Read More

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86th Academy Award Nominations: Dallas Overperforms, 12 Years Underperforms and N’Oprah Strikes Again

Erik Anderson January 16, 2014

The nominations for the 86th Academy Awards were announced this morning to a chorus of shocks and awes with American Hustle and Gravity leading the... Read More

Gold Rush Gang FINAL Oscar Nomination Predictions

Erik Anderson January 15, 2014

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... Read More

BFCA + GG + SAG + BAFTA: The Holy Quartet

Erik Anderson January 11, 2014

Every year AwardsWatch compiles the lists and combinations of the major precursors bagged by potential Oscar nominees and this year is no different. A total... Read More

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Critics Societies roundup 6

Erik Anderson January 6, 2014

It has been a while, but we finally have some results from a batch of film critics organizations again. In this roundup, we have Georgia,... Read More

Oscar Podcast #7: December 17, 2013

Erik Anderson December 18, 2013

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... Read More

Critics’ choices or Oscar predictions? BFCA announces nominations

Erik Anderson December 16, 2013

“The single most accurate precursor to the Oscars….“. If ever it was more blatantly clear what the Broadcast Film Critics Association is actually trying to... Read More