Foreign Language Film

ROMA (Netflix) Can anything really beat Roma here? There’s really nothing standing in its way unless you think that the voting body doesn’t want to give the film both this and Best Picture. The odds are still stacked way in Roma‘s favor, not simply with its unilateral FLF wins everywhere, but because when a film is nominated here and in …

In the last Frontrunner Friday before final 2019 Oscar winner predictions come out next week, we have one of the biggest pieces of the puzzle – BAFTA. But did it help or just confuse us more? Let’s just say it’s a little from column A, a little from column B. BAFTA went for Roma for Best Film, Director, Cinematography and …

The top guilds have given us three different winners, all with historic paths to Best Picture 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 for Green Book), DGA (Directors Guild of America, who went for Roma) and SAG (Screen Actors Guild, who chose …

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 blew the doors open on its race. Glenn Close (The Wife), Rami Malek (Bohemian Rhapsody) and Mahershala Ali (Green Book) were already the leaders in their respective races but now with SAGs in their hands …

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 voting this year and forever. Or maybe it will just be the same as it ever was. For Green Book, which has taken hit upon hit this season over everything from its point of view …

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Oscar winner predictions for the 91st Academy Awards in all 24 categories are all right here. Follow this page and the links below over the next month for live predictions, updated in real time, following the buzz and precursors all leading up the big night at the Dolby – February 24, 2019. All predictions are from Erik Anderson, founder and …

A host of controversies (including a host yet not a host), critics vs audiences, pundits vs pundits. This season has been a roller coaster unlike any I’ve seen in maybe all of my time covering Oscar season, both as a viewer and as a pundit in the mix. It’s been messy, ugly and has seeped into the race to infect …

BlacKkKlansmanA Star Is Born 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 televised awards of the season that often frontrunners solid footing or gives someone a crucial boost they need. All of those things happened but nothing bigger came this week than the …

It’s the last Frontrunner Friday of 2018 and I’m closing it out with predictions, of course, but also a deep look into what could be a great divide between critics and the Academy this year. It’s often griped that the Oscars don’t, or shouldn’t, align with critics because critics don’t vote on the Oscars. Fair enough, as critics have their …