2022 Oscar Predictions: BEST DIRECTOR and BEST PICTURE (November)
Things are heating up as we are turning the bend with late breaking films finally starting to screen and few are as big as Steven... Read More
Best Director
2022 Oscar Predictions: BEST DIRECTOR (October)
After Paweł Pawlikowski (2018’s Cold War) and Thomas Vinterberg (2020’s Another Round) made the cut in the best director category it seems like we’re all... Read More
2022 Oscar Predictions: BEST DIRECTOR (September)
It took a bit of time but the game of chicken between Warner Bros and the Directors Guild of America (DGA) has a winner and... Read More
2022 Oscar Predictions: BEST DIRECTOR (August)
The heated battle for the trending non-English language director slot just got hotter this week with the reveal of the first trailer for Paolo Sorrentino’s... Read More
2022 Oscar Predictions: BEST DIRECTOR (July)
Definitely glad I waited until after Cannes to do July Oscar predictions because the festival, and the winners in particular, really gave the race a... Read More
2022 Oscar Predictions: BEST DIRECTOR (June)
I’m feeling very good about my Asghar Farhadi prediction last month as his new film, A Hero, was announced in competition for this summer’s Cannes... Read More
2022 Oscar Predictions: BEST DIRECTOR (May)
After a season in which Chloé Zhao (Nomadland) made Academy Awards history and became the first woman of color to win the Best Director Oscar... Read More
FINAL 2021 Oscar Predictions: BEST DIRECTOR
Making history at the Oscars is always a great thing to celebrate but it’s also a measured response tempered by the fact that it took... Read More
FINAL 2021 Oscar Nomination Predictions: BEST DIRECTOR
While I am comfortable predicting that we will get two female directors in this category for the first time in Oscar’s 93-year history, the question... Read More
2021 Oscar Predictions: BEST DIRECTOR (February)
I’m hesitant to finally call this the ‘Year of the Woman’ in the directing category since we’ve been burned so many times before but I... Read More
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