AwardsWatch - Best Director

2025 Oscar Predictions: BEST PICTURE and BEST DIRECTOR (August)

Erik Anderson August 23, 2024

It’s just a matter of days before the curtain is peeled back on a host of fall and winter releases debuting at the Venice and... Read More

2025 Oscar Predictions: BEST PICTURE and BEST DIRECTOR (July)

Erik Anderson July 26, 2024

With full lineups of the Venice and Toronto film festivals announced, we’re finally in a place to make some educated Oscar predictions and rely a... Read More

2025 Oscar Predictions: BEST PICTURE and BEST DIRECTOR (June)

Erik Anderson June 6, 2024

Coming in with ‘early’ Oscar predictions a little later than last year, wanting to give some breathing room to Cannes and its winners and trying... Read More

FINAL 2024 Oscar Predictions: BEST DIRECTOR

Erik Anderson February 28, 2024

Christopher Nolan. Here are my ranked final 2024 Oscar winner predictions for Best Director. 1. Christopher Nolan for Oppenheimer (BAFTA, CCA, DGA, GG) 2. Justine Triet for Anatomy... Read More

FINAL 2024 Oscar Predictions: BEST PICTURE and BEST DIRECTOR

Erik Anderson January 19, 2024

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

2024 Oscar Predictions: BEST PICTURE and BEST DIRECTOR (December)

Erik Anderson December 15, 2023

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)

Erik Anderson November 21, 2023

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)

Erik Anderson October 23, 2023

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)

Erik Anderson September 18, 2023

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