FINAL Frontrunner Friday Oscar Predictions of the 2025/2026 Season
Let’s skip to the good part. Here are my final winner predictions in all 24 categories for the 98th Academy Awards, which will take place... Read More
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Frontrunner Friday Oscar Predictions: The Last Battle Before the War is Won (2/27/26)
Last week, we had our first real taste of where the industry was leaning and it was for One Battle After Another. BAFTA kept the... Read More
Frontrunner Friday Oscar Predictions: The Pre-BAFTA Conclave Begins, Will a New Frontrunner Be Anointed? (2/20/26)
Last weekend the Make Up & Hairstylists Guild (MUAH) winners, where Sinners grabbed both period hair and makeup while Frankenstein took the prosthetic makeup award, to no... Read More
Frontrunner Friday Oscar Predictions: Paul Thomas Anderson Inches Closer (2/13/26)
Last weekend, Paul Thomas Anderson won the Directors Guild of America (DGA) award for Theatrical Feature Film for One Battle After Another, moving one step... Read More
Frontrunner Friday Oscar Predictions: The Calm Before the Storm (2/6/26)
All is quiet on the western front this week with no changes across the board in the rankings from last week but that could all... Read More
Frontrunner Friday Oscar Predictions: We Need to Talk About ‘Marty’ (1/30/26)
It wouldn’t be a proper Oscar season without an old controversy made new, would it? Earlier this week, the inaugural issue of the California Post... Read More
Frontrunner Friday: First Take on 2026 Oscar Winner Predictions
No rest for the wicked (sorry, that’s my last one of those), it’s time for first Oscar winner predictions of the season. The Oscar nominations... Read More
Frontrunner Friday 2025 Oscar Predictions: A Cinderella Story
Awards season seemed to tilt on its axis last weekend as what was largely a muddled, unsure Best Picture race got much clearer. Or at... Read More
Frontrunner Friday 2025 Oscar Predictions: We Need to Talk About Karla
I haven’t delved much into the last few weeks of Oscar drama regarding Oscar-nominated actress Karla Sofía Garcón from Emilia Pérez, the most nominated film... Read More
Frontrunner Friday 2025 Oscar Predictions: Forming the Winners Circle
While the first phase of Oscar season seems like an endless marathon, the post-nominations second phase is a sprint. After the date change and extension... Read More
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