AwardsWatch Podcast #215: Our Final 2024 Oscar Nomination Predictions
On episode 215 of The AwardsWatch Podcast, Executive Editor Ryan McQuade is joined by AwardsWatch Editor-In-Chief Erik Anderson, Associate Editor Sophia Ciminello and AwardsWatch contributor... Read More
Year: 2024
FINAL 2024 Oscar Predictions: BEST ACTOR
Is it the SAG five in Best Actor? It’s never that easy, right? There isn’t much of a case to be made against Cillian Murphy... Read More
‘Stress Positions’ Review: Pandemic-Era Disaster Gays Provide More Cringe Than Comedy | Sundance 2024
Stress Positions, the first feature from writer-director-actor-composer-editor Theda Hammel, isn’t concerned about being likable. The setting — New York City at the frightening start of... Read More
Director Watch Podcast Ep. 28 – ‘The French Connection’ (William Friedkin, 1971)
Welcome to Director Watch! On this AwardsWatch podcast, co-hosts Ryan McQuade and Jay Ledbetter attempt to breakdown, analyze, and ultimately, get inside the mind of... Read More
FINAL 2024 Oscar Predictions: SUPPORTING ACTOR
With this year’s RRR – Robert Downey Jr., Ryan Gosling and Robert De Niro – firmly in place, like so many categories (especially acting) it’s... Read More
FINAL 2024 Oscar Predictions: SUPPORTING ACTRESS
While it may be a forgone conclusion that Da’Vine Joy Randolph in The Holdovers is winning the Oscar for Supporting Actress – and really, her... Read More
FINAL 2024 Oscar Predictions: ORIGINAL SCORE and ORIGINAL SONG
In Original Score we have just two that have gone all the way with the most precursors an Oscar category has: BAFTA, Golden Globe, Critics... Read More
FINAL 2024 Oscar Predictions: ADAPTED SCREENPLAY and ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
With the writers branch of the Academy declaring the screenplays for both Greta Gerwig’s Barbie and Ava DuVernay’s Origin must compete in Adapted (and not... Read More
FINAL 2024 Oscar Predictions: FILM EDITING and CINEMATOGRAPHY
We won’t have the ACE Eddie nominations for film editing until two days after Oscar nominations so they’re not a precursor here but we do... Read More
EE BAFTA Nominations: ‘Oppenheimer’ and ‘Poor Things’ Lead, ‘Saltburn,’ ‘Maestro,’ ‘All of Us Strangers’ Rise While ‘Barbie’ Falls
BAFTA today announced the nominations for the 2024 EE BAFTA Film Awards and to one one’s surprise Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer rose to the top with... Read More
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