AwardsWatch - Frontrunner Friday

Frontrunner Friday: Did SAG lay down the gauntlet on some Oscar hopefuls?

Erik Anderson December 14, 2018

Last week, the Golden Globe nominations put Vice on the Oscar map after months of wondering how that film might factor in. They loved The... Read More

Frontrunner Friday: The Golden Globes and Kevin Hart make for the most tumultuous awards season kickoff ever

Erik Anderson December 7, 2018

It’s been a week, hasn’t it? On November 29th I sent a call out to Film Twitter as to who they wanted to see host... Read More

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Frontrunner Friday: Awards season has begun

Erik Anderson November 30, 2018

This week has given us the Gotham Award winners, the National Board of Review and the New York Film Critics Circle. With wins for ROMA to Green... Read More

Frontrunner Friday: The Impact of AFI Fest and Spirit Awards noms

Erik Anderson November 16, 2018

This week saw the second half of AFI FEST bring us two long-awaited world premieres that could impact many Oscar categories: Mimi Leder’s Ruth Bader... Read More

Frontrunner Friday: Date change for ‘Beale Street,’ ‘A Star Is Born’ drops songs and Viggo Mortensen…well

Erik Anderson November 9, 2018

It’s only been a week but we’ve already seen a tidal wave midterm election, the beginning of AFI Fest (where I’ll be for the first... Read More

Frontrunner Friday: More category changes, ‘Widows’ rises, Best Actress is a fight

Erik Anderson October 26, 2018

It’s been yet another week of category changes but this time two about faces; just a week after Paramount announced Emily Blunt would be positioned... Read More

Frontrunner Friday – Annapurna in flux; category changes

Erik Anderson October 12, 2018

After last week’s drops of trailers for Vice and The Mule, this week’s Frontrunner Friday brings us a few changes that may or may not... Read More

Frontrunner Friday: ‘The Mule,’ ‘Vice’ trailers take aim at Oscar voters

Erik Anderson October 5, 2018

Two big trailer drops both impact multiple Oscar races in this week’s Frontrunner Friday. First was Vice, Adam McKay’s satire of the rise of Dick... Read More

Frontrunner Friday: No one knows anything (and that’s a good thing)

Erik Anderson September 28, 2018

Frontrunner Friday has returned after a month to digest the impact that Venice, Telluride and Toronto had on the Oscar playing field and it was... Read More