FINAL 2024 Oscar Predictions: COSTUME DESIGN
One of the more competitive categories this season, the battle for costume design should be between Barbie and Poor Things, the only films to pick... Read More
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FINAL 2024 Oscar Predictions: VISUAL EFFECTS
Lacking a Best Picture nominee, especially the shortlisted Poor Things (which won the BAFTA) and not shortlisted at all Oppenheimer (the Critics Choice winner), the... Read More
FINAL 2024 Oscar Predictions: ANIMATED SHORT, DOCUMENTARY SHORT and LIVE ACTION SHORT
The shorts categories are traditionally your Oscar pool makers or breakers. Even the avid Oscar fan hasn’t seen many or most of them so sometimes... Read More
FINAL 2024 Oscar Predictions: BEST DIRECTOR
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: SUPPORTING ACTOR
Like Da’Vine Joy Randolph in Supporting Actress, Robert Downey Jr. (Oppenheimer) made a clean sweep of the precursors and even led regional critics wins, although... Read More
FINAL 2024 Oscar Predictions: SUPPORTING ACTRESS
LAFCA, NBR, NSFC, NYFCC, BAFTA, CCA, GG, SAG, Spirit. It’s rare that a sweep like this happens but when it does there’s not much more... Read More
FINAL 2024 Oscar Predictions: ANIMATED FEATURE
It’s been quite a volley between The Boy and the Heron and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse with wins this season, a balance that would traditionally... Read More
FINAL 2024 Oscar Predictions: MAKEUP and HAIRSTYLING
A year ago this was the easiest category to call. That image of Bradley Cooper in Maestro in old Leonard Bernstein came out and we... Read More
FINAL 2024 Oscar Predictions: INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM
The dominance of Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall in the non-English language film categories both before and after France opted to submit The Taste... Read More
FINAL 2024 Oscar Predictions: ORIGINAL SCORE
With the BAFTA, Critics Choice, Golden Globe and SCL under his belt, Ludwig Göransson is set for his second Oscar for Original Score with Oppenheimer... Read More
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