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2017 Oscars: First Oscar Predictions of the 2016-2017 Season (March 2016)

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Erik Anderson
March 7, 2016 10:32 am
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The first predictions of the top 6 categories from the NEW Gold Rush Gang are here and right now Paramount Pictures’ Silence tops the pack in Best Picture, Best Director and Best Supporting Actor (Liam Neeson) while Sundance hit Manchester by the Sea scores two #1s, Best Actor (Casey Affleck) and Best Supporting Actress (Michelle Williams).

Ruth Negga (Loving) heads the leading ladies with Viola Davis (Fences) on her heels. We’re also seeing the possibility for some Oscar comebacks from Annette Bening (20th Century Women) and Michelle Pfeiffer (Beat-up Little Seagull). Watch for expanded predictions in the coming weeks and follow the up-to-the-minute predictions from the Gang right here. Also, enjoy the first podcast of the new season, recording yesterday and featuring myself and new Gold Rush Gang member Júlia Albuquerque.

Here are the March 2016 Oscar Predictions from the Gold Rush Gang (click image to enlarge):

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Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013. He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Critics Choice Association (CCA), San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.

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  • Ben Affleck and Andrew Garfield will get acting nominations? When did they learn to act? Hope springs eternal...

      • CASEY Affleck isn't the alleged nominee I object to. He's a talented actor. It's his horrifically untalented brother BEN. Ben may be a fairly good director (though severely overrated) but Ben can't act to save his life so it is very surprising people on here voted for him as a possible acting nominee.

        "Read a book, huh?" I could suggest you read posts before responding.

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