AwardsWatch - Frontrunner Friday

Frontrunner Friday Oscar Predictions: Marty vs Marvel; Nigeria disqualified from contention

Erik Anderson November 8, 2019

A few weeks ago (was it only a few weeks?) Martin Scorsese made an off-hand comment in an interview with Empire magazine that Marvel movies... Read More

Frontrunner Friday Oscar Predictions: Joker’s Wild

Erik Anderson November 1, 2019

With Halloween behind us, playtime is over and awards season is about to get real. It feels almost impossible to deny the box office behemoth... Read More

Frontrunner Friday Oscar Predictions: Bombshells, Bales and Marches

Erik Anderson October 25, 2019

Hot off the first screenings of Bombshell, which vaulted Charlize Theron and Margot Robbie up Oscar predictions charts everywhere (including mine), another unseen December release,... Read More

Frontrunner Friday Oscar Predictions: It’s peach season as ‘Parasite’ ripens this weekend

Erik Anderson October 11, 2019

The big news this week was the official list from the Academy of the record-breaking 93 countries that will compete for the (newly named) International... Read More

Frontrunner Friday: ‘The Irishman,’ ‘1917,’ ‘Richard Jewell,’ light up the Oscar race

Erik Anderson October 4, 2019

It’s the first Frontrunner Friday of the 2019-2020 Oscar season and for good reason: since the September Oscar predictions we’ve had Netflix’s The Irishman screen... Read More

Frontrunner Friday: With PGA, DGA and SAG split, who’s really ahead in the Oscar race?

Erik Anderson February 8, 2019

For only the 5th time in Oscar history we have a three-way split between the winners at the PGA (Producers Guild of America, who went... Read More

Frontrunner Friday: Guilds start rolling in but the Oscar race is still open

Erik Anderson February 1, 2019

Last weekend, the Screen Actors Guild gave us another piece of the prediction puzzle, with three actors securing their frontrunner status to near-locked while one... Read More

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Frontrunner Friday: Oscar nominations and PGA have given us a real race

Erik Anderson January 25, 2019

In this month alone, controversies rose and crested at the banks of a few major awards players in a way that could potentially change Oscar... Read More

Frontrunner Friday: ‘BlacKkKlansman’ back on top; ‘A Star Is Born’ is a guild monster

Erik Anderson January 11, 2019

It’s been a week. Throngs of guild nomination announcements came in, continuing to help shape the Oscar race. Sunday was the Golden Globes, the first... Read More