2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions: PRODUCTION DESIGN and COSTUME DESIGN (August)
Production Design and Costume Design are two fantastically intertwined categories. The last 20 years have given us so many examples of films winning both in... Read More
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2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions: FILM EDITING and CINEMATOGRAPHY (August)
The below the line categories of Film Editing and Cinematography are getting their first predictions of the season and we know how integral film editing... Read More
2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions: BEST PICTURE (July)
As in Best Director, the most substantial moves up go to A24’s The Farewell and Neon’s Parasite, the latter of which enters the top 10... Read More
2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions: BEST DIRECTOR (July)
Having a hard time moving the top four on my Best Director predictions anywhere at this point. Placeholders? Maybe one or two, unless they’re all... Read More
2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions: BEST ACTRESS (July)
You might think that Scarlett Johansson’s “[I] should be able to play any person, or any tree, or any animal” answer to a question about... Read More
2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions: BEST ACTOR (July)
While I’m sticking with Jonathan Pryce in Fernando Meirelles’s The Pope from Netflix as my top Best Actor choice, I’m feeling better and better about... Read More
2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions: SUPPORTING ACTRESS (July)
We have a new #1 in Supporting Actress and it’s Laura Dern in the new Noah Baumbach that is tentatively (possibly) now titled Marriage Story,... Read More
2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions: SUPPORTING ACTOR (July)
Although I still think if Brad Pitt goes supporting for Sony/Columbia’s Tarantino flick Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood that he’s got this in the bag,... Read More
A much, much richer category than Adapted, the sheer volume of high-level contenders in Original Screenplay this year is overwhelming. The box office may be... Read More
2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions: ADAPTED SCREENPLAY (July)
The Irishman (Netflix) and Ford v Ferrari (20th Century Fox) hold their positions in Adapted Screenplay this month but there’s a lot of movement elsewhere,... Read More
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