2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions: SUPPORTING ACTOR (August)
Tom Hanks (Sony/TriStar’s A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood) is back in the #1 for Supporting Actor for August with the announcement of the film’s... Read More
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2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions: ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY (August)
With the confirmation that Amazon’s The Aeronauts is an adapted screenplay, that opens up a spot in this month’s chart, in the top five, no... Read More
2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions: ADAPTED SCREENPLAY (August)
There’s a new #1 in Adapted Screenplay as Sony/TriStar’s A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood unseats Netflix’s The Irishman for the top spot for the... Read More
2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions: ORIGINAL SCORE and ORIGINAL SONG (August)
Last year, the Academy reintroduced the shortlists for Original Score and Original Song for the first time since 1979. This gave us smaller eligibility lists... Read More
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
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
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
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