2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions: MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING and VISUAL EFFECTS (September)
September marks the first Oscar predictions in Makeup & Hairstyling and Visual Effects, categories that will see shortlists and bakeoffs come December. New this year,... Read More
2020 Oscar Predictions
2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions: ORIGINAL SCORE and ORIGINAL SONG (September)
The top three in Original Score remains the same this month, with two Oscar winners (John Williams and Alexandre Desplat) and now the most-nominated living... Read More
2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions: ANIMATED & DOCUMENTARY FEATURE (September)
Is it just me or does this year’s crop of animated feature contenders seem…meh? Packed with sequels, some of which were big critical and box... Read More
2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions: PRODUCTION DESIGN & COSTUME DESIGN (September)
The luxuriant production design (and a big part of the film’s $90M budget) bumps Sony/Columbia’s Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood up one to the top... Read More
2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions: FILM EDITING & CINEMATOGRAPHY (September)
Not a lot of major changes in Film Editing and Cinematography this month (Cinematography top 5 is the exact same) even as we’ve just left... Read More
Oscar Predictions: Post-Telluride, mid-Venice, pre-TIFF set your sights on Renée Zellweger, Adam Driver and ‘Parasite’
With Telluride just finishing, Venice still underway, and Toronto starting tomorrow, we are smack in the middle of the fall festival kickoff of awards season... Read More
2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions: BEST PICTURE (August)
Unlike most categories this month, Best Picture sees movement from every single film in the top 10 for August, not the least of which is... Read More
2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions: BEST DIRECTOR (August)
There’s a bit of déjà vu happening in Best Director right now. Go back with me, if you will, all the way back to the... Read More
2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions: BEST ACTRESS (August)
Things are starting to pick up in Best Actress but I’m still not budging on Cynthia Erivo completing her EGOT with Focus Features’ Harriet. The... Read More
2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions: BEST ACTOR (August)
With the fall festival lineups locked in, well, save Telluride (we all but know what’s showing up there though) it starts to make things just... Read More
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