Sound Editing

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 Favourite, Green Book and A Star Is Born. We weren’t even done reeling over the Kevin Hart Oscar host debacle when this week, the Critics’ Choice went in deep for First Man, a film that …

Former Oscars host Kevin Hart 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 the Oscars since it was getting pretty late in the season to be without one. I got a lot of responses. Tiffany Haddish and Maya Rudolph. John Mulaney and Nick …

First Reformed, A Star Is Born, Eighth Grade and Green Book have started out awards season ahead of the pack 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 Book to A Star Is Born, and performances from Ethan Hawke to Regina King to …

First Man (Universal)A Star Is Born (Warner Bros) First Man stays locked at #1 in Sound Editing despite faltering elsewhere this month. It feels like a category that would be impenetrable to its overall nomination potential and could even eke out a win.  Black Panther keeps moving up, ROMA holds on at #2. After La La Land‘s shocking loss in …

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 Ginsburg biopic On the Basis of Sex (review here) starring Academy Award nominee Felicity Jones and Josie Rourke’s feature film directorial debut Mary Queen of Scots (review forthcoming) about the Queen Anne/Queen Elizabeth I rivalry …

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 time), a significant date change from Annapurna and an actor who may have just sunk his chances at an Oscar nomination.  Barry Jenkins’ If Beale Street Could Talk, which was set to debut in New …

Green Book won another film festival audience award this week, its fourth, cementing the film as one of fall’s biggest crowd pleasers and pushing it up another spot in my Frontrunner Friday Best Picture predictions.  Also earlier this week was the announcement from Universal that it would be giving Green Book a 20-theater limited release ahead of its November 21st …

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 in Best Actress for A Quiet Place and Sony Classics was touting Jonathan Pryce in Best Actor for The Wife, both studios flipped and official FYCs from each studio have them both in supporting. For …

This is the first month of official predictions for all below the line technical categories (although they have been live in the updating chart of predictions here) that will include: Film Editing, Cinematography, Production Design, Costume Design, Original Score, Original Song, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, Makeup & Hairstyling and Visual Effects. At the moment First Man, ROMA, A Star Is Born …

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 affect the status of a handful of films and performances. The big news is that Annapurna suffered a big loss with the stepping down (firing?) of its president Chelsea Barnard this week as the fledgling …