2024 Oscar Predictions: ADAPTED SCREENPLAY and ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY (September)
After weeks of debate and discussion among awards fans and pundits, Warner Bros officially announced it will run the Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach-penned Barbie... Read More
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2024 Oscar Predictions: BEST DIRECTOR and BEST PICTURE (September)
With the Venice, Telluride and Toronto film festivals now behind us, films seen and awards given out, we’re in a better place to visualize Oscar... Read More
2023 TIFF People’s Choice Award Predictions: Who Will Boost Their Best Picture Chances?
The 48th Toronto International Film Festival is just about to wrap up, closing 11 days of films, director-driven Q&A, and a slightly muted version of... Read More
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
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
‘Wishful Thinking,’ ‘Over Your Dead Body’ Among 2026 SXSW Film & TV Festival Juried and Audience Award Winners 
Director Watch Podcast Ep. 144 – ‘A Matter of Life and Death (Powell and Pressburger, 1946) with Special Guest Jesse Nussman 
Association of Motion Picture Sound (AMPS) Television and Nonfiction Nominations Announced: ‘Adolescence,’ ‘Black Mirror,’ ‘Slow Horses’ and More 
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