2026 Oscar Predictions: The Awards Alchemist Previews the Historic Debut of the Casting Category and Fall’s Early Contenders
Film festival season is nearly here, and some of the mystery around separating contenders from pretenders will begin to lift once we’re in the mountains... Read More
2026 Oscar Predictions
2026 Oscar Predictions: SUPPORTING ACTRESS (July)
Holding onto this top for at least one more month as the coming days will shower us with festival announcements that will shape and reshape... Read More
2026 Oscar Predictions: BEST ACTRESS (July)
As we’re just about to embark on fall film festival announcements–Toronto already has revealed over a dozen titles, Venice lineup is next Tuesday–it once again... Read More
2026 Oscar Predictions: The Awards Alchemist Frames the Cinematography Landscape
As the cinematic landscape of 2025 slowly begins to take shape, I’m diving back into my Oscar predictions, this time with a focus on the... Read More
2026 Oscar Predictions: SUPPORTING ACTOR (July)
Not much movement outside of dropping Stephen Graham (those black and white flashbacks in the trailer for Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere say very small... Read More
2026 Oscar Predictions: BEST ACTOR (July)
In 2022, when The Whale premiered at the Venice Film Festival, Brendan Fraser’s reviews were pretty rapturous. While he didn’t win the Volpi Cup for... Read More
2026 Oscar Predictions: BEST PICTURE and BEST DIRECTOR (July)
While July is the month of Emmy nominations, it’s also when Venice announces its lineup (July 22) and Toronto reveals its sidebar sections and a... Read More
2026 Oscar Predictions: BEST ACTOR and BEST ACTRESS (June)
With George Clooney, Leonardo DiCaprio and Julia Roberts in high profile films this season, we may be entering, or reentering, a modern classic movie star... Read More
2026 Oscar Predictions: BEST CASTING (June)
The great thing about having a new category to predict is that we don’t have anything from the Academy to rely on in terms of... Read More
2026 Oscar Predictions: SUPPORTING ACTOR and SUPPORTING ACTRESS (June)
Sentimental Value‘s Grand Prix win at Cannes keeps Stellan Skarsgård in the #1 spot again this month but the first trailer for Springsteen: Deliver Me... Read More
Director Watch Podcast Ep. 136 – ‘Rules Don’t Apply’ (Warren Beatty, 2016) 
2026 Oscar Nomination Reactions from Timothée Chalamet, Rose Byrne, Wagner Moura and More 
AwardsWatch Podcast Ep. 329 – 98th Oscar Nominations Reactions: For Good 
Oscar Nominations: ‘Sinners’ Breaks All Time Record with 16, Sets Several Places in Academy Awards History