2027 Oscar Predictions: The Awards Alchemist’s First Look at the 99th Academy Awards
Oscar prediction season now begins almost as soon as the previous ceremony ends. Every year, the same debate follows: jump in immediately or wait... Read More
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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
FINAL 2026 Oscar Predictions: BEST PICTURE and BEST DIRECTOR
After a seemingly endless season where we have an abundance of riches in Best Picture, including a top two that have deep benches of passion... Read More
2026 Oscar Predictions: The Awards Alchemist Predicts the Winners – Part Two
Welcome to Part Two of my final predictions for the 98th Academy Awards. If you missed it, please check out Part One here. In the... Read More
FINAL 2026 Oscar Predictions: BEST ACTOR
What a roller coaster this category has been, right? Timothée Chalamet, who had long been the ‘on paper’ frontrunner for Best Actor for months, stormed... Read More
FINAL 2026 Oscar Predictions: ADAPTED SCREENPLAY and ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Two of the easiest categories to predict on Oscar night are right here, and have been months. Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another is... Read More
2026 Oscar Predictions: The Awards Alchemist Predicts the Winners – Part One
And so we limp to the finish line of another awards season. Every year I tell myself it won’t feel quite this long. Every year... Read More
FINAL 2026 Oscar Predictions: CINEMATOGRAPHY
With American Society of Cinematographers (ASC), BAFTA and British Society of Cinematographers (BSC), Michael Bauman has the goods to win the Oscar for One Battle... Read More
FINAL 2026 Oscar Predictions: BEST SOUND
A big weekend for sound awards with Cinema Audio Society (CAS) and Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE), which offered us at least one little surprise... Read More
FINAL 2026 Oscar Predictions: BEST CASTING
The first new category at the Oscars in two decades and even with three available precursors the results are impacted by everything from inconsistent competition... Read More
2026 San Francisco International Film Festival Reviews: ‘Two Pianos,’ ‘If I Go Will They Miss Me,’ ‘Filipiñana,’ ‘Elder Son’ [SFFILM] 
‘Idiots’ Review: Dave Franco and O’Shea Jackson Jr. Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore [B] Atlanta Film Festival 
Ildikó Enyedi’s ‘Silent Friend’ Among 2026 SFFILM Honorees of the Sloan Science in Cinema Initiative 
How Badie Ali and Watermelon Pictures are Decolonizing the Film Industry [INTERVIEW]