2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions: MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING and VISUAL EFFECTS (October)
Bombshell screened this week for critics and it’s coming in roaring hot, moving up to the #1 spot this month. With an incredible amount of... Read More
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2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions: ORIGINAL SCORE and ORIGINAL SONG (October)
Not a move this month in Original Score, which is feeling very solid at the moment. Obviously though, we’ll have a clear picture on December... Read More
2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions: PRODUCTION DESIGN & COSTUME DESIGN (October)
Ahead of its release, Ad Astra was feeling very much like it was taking an identical trajectory to 2018’s First Man and indeed, it has... Read More
2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions: FILM EDITING & CINEMATOGRAPHY (October)
Some movement in Film Editing this month with James Mangold’s race car drama Ford v Ferrari moving into the pole position. It’s a tough call... Read More
2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions: ANIMATED & DOCUMENTARY FEATURE (October)
The surprisingly robust box office start for The Addams Family this weekend is enough to vault the macabre comedy into the top 5 month as... Read More
Frontrunner Friday Oscar Predictions: It’s peach season as ‘Parasite’ ripens this weekend
The big news this week was the official list from the Academy of the record-breaking 93 countries that will compete for the (newly named) International... Read More
How big of an Oscar contender will ‘The Irishman’ be?
On Friday, September 27th, Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman had its premiere at the New York Film Festival. The 3 and a half hour mob epic... Read More
Frontrunner Friday: ‘The Irishman,’ ‘1917,’ ‘Richard Jewell,’ light up the Oscar race
It’s the first Frontrunner Friday of the 2019-2020 Oscar season and for good reason: since the September Oscar predictions we’ve had Netflix’s The Irishman screen... Read More
2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions: BEST PICTURE (September)
In a post-Venice/Telluride/TIFF world there’s a lot of green to be seen on this month’s Best Picture chart. Some films found their places locked and... Read More
2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions: BEST DIRECTOR (September)
As with every year, the director’s branch of the Academy has an opportunity to both recognize great artists and make history. Last year saw a... Read More
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