FINAL 2024 Oscar Predictions: BEST PICTURE and BEST DIRECTOR
Is it just me or do you feel weirdly calm about what’s making it into Best Picture and that it’s going to be the PGA... Read More
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FINAL 2024 Oscar Predictions: BEST ACTRESS
No acting category has been quite as tough to suss out over the pre-season months than Best Actress. How do you not include Margot Robbie... Read More
FINAL 2024 Oscar Predictions: BEST ACTOR
Is it the SAG five in Best Actor? It’s never that easy, right? There isn’t much of a case to be made against Cillian Murphy... Read More
FINAL 2024 Oscar Predictions: SUPPORTING ACTOR
With this year’s RRR – Robert Downey Jr., Ryan Gosling and Robert De Niro – firmly in place, like so many categories (especially acting) it’s... Read More
FINAL 2024 Oscar Predictions: SUPPORTING ACTRESS
While it may be a forgone conclusion that Da’Vine Joy Randolph in The Holdovers is winning the Oscar for Supporting Actress – and really, her... Read More
FINAL 2024 Oscar Predictions: ORIGINAL SCORE and ORIGINAL SONG
In Original Score we have just two that have gone all the way with the most precursors an Oscar category has: BAFTA, Golden Globe, Critics... Read More
FINAL 2024 Oscar Predictions: ADAPTED SCREENPLAY and ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
With the writers branch of the Academy declaring the screenplays for both Greta Gerwig’s Barbie and Ava DuVernay’s Origin must compete in Adapted (and not... Read More
FINAL 2024 Oscar Predictions: FILM EDITING and CINEMATOGRAPHY
We won’t have the ACE Eddie nominations for film editing until two days after Oscar nominations so they’re not a precursor here but we do... Read More
FINAL 2024 Oscar Predictions: COSTUME DESIGN and PRODUCTION DESIGN
We should see several films double up here, like Barbie, Poor Things and Killers of the Flower Moon after earning all precursors in the respective... Read More
FINAL 2024 Oscar Predictions: SOUND, MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING and VISUAL EFFECTS
Oscar nominations will be announced on January 23 and the 96th Academy Awards will be held on March 10. Here are my final 2024 Oscar... Read More
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