FINAL 2024 Oscar Predictions: BEST PICTURE and BEST DIRECTOR
Is it just me or do you feel weirdly calm about what’s making it into Best Picture and that it’s going to be the PGA... Read More
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2024 Oscar Predictions: BEST PICTURE and BEST DIRECTOR (December)
With Critics Choice and the Golden Globe nominations in as well as a deluge of critics’ nominations and wins, we have a real race on... Read More
2024 Oscar Predictions: BEST PICTURE and BEST DIRECTOR (November)
The Gotham and BIFA nominations have given us their usual inside look at what the Spirit Awards and BAFTA might look like, a peripheral version... Read More
2024 Oscar Predictions: BEST PICTURE and BEST DIRECTOR (October)
As the major fall festivals have just about ended – AFI FEST kicks off this week – festival awards from the regionals, combined with Cannes,... Read More
2024 Oscar Predictions: BEST DIRECTOR and BEST PICTURE (September)
With the Venice, Telluride and Toronto film festivals now behind us, films seen and awards given out, we’re in a better place to visualize Oscar... Read More
2024 Oscar Predictions: BEST DIRECTOR and BEST PICTURE (August)
We’re just a week away from the fall festival kick off with Venice in August 30 and Telluride on August 31, both of which will... Read More
2024 Oscar Predictions: BEST DIRECTOR and BEST PICTURE (July)
With Toronto and Venice lineups announced and Telluride in a month’s time the fall festival season is taking shape in the midst of the ongoing... Read More
2024 Oscar Predictions: BEST DIRECTOR and BEST PICTURE (June)
As I expected in May, Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall and Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest were the top Cannes winners last month,... Read More
2024 Oscar Predictions: BEST DIRECTOR and BEST PICTURE (May)
Last year, I kicked off my Oscar predictions just after Cannes, after Ruben Östlund won his second Palme d’Or and took that win all the... Read More
FINAL 2023 Oscar Predictions: BEST DIRECTOR
With the BAFTA winner (Edward Berger for All Quiet on the Western Front) not in contention here and the Golden Globe winner (Steven Spielberg for... Read More
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