Frontrunner Friday Oscar Predictions: Happy (?) New Year and Hey, Just Look Up
Kind of perfect that the last Frontrunner Friday of 2021 falls on the actual last day of this tumultuous year. We might be able to... Read More
Oscars
2022 Oscar Predictions: BEST DIRECTOR and BEST PICTURE (December)
A canceled Golden Globes, a postponed Critics’ Choice ceremony. Is it even really awards season yet? Of course it is. We have dozens of critics... Read More
2022 Oscar Predictions: ANIMATED FEATURE, DOCUMENTARY FEATURE and INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM (December)
The shortlists for Documentary Feature and International Feature Film came with the usual surprise inclusions and shocking snubs but also more or less solidified what... Read More
2022 Oscar Predictions: MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING and VISUAL EFFECTS (December)
The Academy came in with their Oscar shortlists yesterday, including Makeup & Hairstyling and Visual Effects and once again No Time to Die showed up... Read More
2022 Oscar Predictions: ORIGINAL SCORE, ORIGINAL SONG and SOUND (December)
The shortlists are here for Original Score, Original Song and Sound, giving us now a very narrowed field from which to predict. No Time to... Read More
2022 Oscar Predictions: PRODUCTION DESIGN and COSTUME DESIGN (December)
Of the critics’ groups who give out production design wins, Dune has earned two while The French Dispatch, Nightmare Alley and West Side Story have... Read More
2022 Oscar Shortlist predictions: Expect love for ‘Dune,’ ‘Don’t Look Up,’ ‘The Harder They Fall’ and more
It’s the most wonderful time of the year. Christmas sure, but the Oscar Shortlists are arriving tomorrow and I’ve got predictions. Original Score has 137... Read More
2022 Oscar Predictions: BEST ACTRESS (December)
Best Actress is always the most exciting race of the season even when it’s not. I mean, it’s actresses, the bread and butter of awards... Read More
2022 Oscar Predictions: ADAPTED SCREENPLAY and ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY (December)
Of the critics groups who have screenplay winners, the overwhelming favorite in adapted is The Power of the Dog, Jane Campion’s adaptation of the 1967... Read More
2022 Oscar Predictions: FILM EDITING and CINEMATOGRAPHY (December)
We won’t have guild nominations for film editing (ACE) and cinematography (ASC) until next month but there are a few critics groups who expand outside... Read More
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