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
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2024 Oscar Predictions: BEST ACTRESS (August)
Let’s take a look at how crucial the fall festival presence in Best Actress is, or at least offer a cross section for reference. Venice... Read More
2024 Oscar Predictions: BEST ACTOR (August)
A very strange and quiet period from July predictions to August even though we have virtually all of the fall festival lineups save Telluride. The... Read More
2024 Oscar Predictions: ADAPTED SCREENPLAY and ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY (August)
Barbenheimer strikes again, as Barbie and Oppenheimer each rise to the top spot of the respective screenplay categories, original and adapted. I know there is... Read More
2024 Oscar Predictions: SUPPORTING ACTRESS (August)
Was I wrong to take Emily Blunt out of my predictions last month? Yes. Is she back and all the way up to #2 now?... Read More
2024 Oscar Predictions: SUPPORTING ACTOR (August)
It’s RRR season. Robert Downey Jr. (Oppenheimer), Ryan Gosling (Barbie) and Robert De Niro (Killers of the Flower Moon) stay put as my top three... 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 ACTRESS (July)
News of films possibly or definitely moving out of 2023 and into 2024 as the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike prevents actors from promoting their films at... Read More
2024 Oscar Predictions: BEST ACTOR (July)
This month has given us a lot of first looks with trailers for The Holdovers with Paul Giamatti, Napoleon with Joaquin Phoenix and Bob Marley:... Read More
2024 Oscar Predictions: ADAPTED SCREENPLAY and ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY (July)
Not a lot of movement in the screenplay categories this month; Apple’s Killers of the Flower Moon and Universal’s Oppenheimer should be able to maintain... Read More
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