2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions: SOUND EDITING & SOUND MIXING (September)
Vroom vroom, bitches. Race cars, space wars and world wars make up the bulk of the top contenders for Sound Editing and Sound Mixing this... Read More
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2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions: MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING and VISUAL EFFECTS (September)
September marks the first Oscar predictions in Makeup & Hairstyling and Visual Effects, categories that will see shortlists and bakeoffs come December. New this year,... Read More
2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions: ORIGINAL SCORE and ORIGINAL SONG (September)
The top three in Original Score remains the same this month, with two Oscar winners (John Williams and Alexandre Desplat) and now the most-nominated living... Read More
2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions: ANIMATED & DOCUMENTARY FEATURE (September)
Is it just me or does this year’s crop of animated feature contenders seem…meh? Packed with sequels, some of which were big critical and box... Read More
2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions: PRODUCTION DESIGN & COSTUME DESIGN (September)
The luxuriant production design (and a big part of the film’s $90M budget) bumps Sony/Columbia’s Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood up one to the top... Read More
2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions: FILM EDITING & CINEMATOGRAPHY (September)
Not a lot of major changes in Film Editing and Cinematography this month (Cinematography top 5 is the exact same) even as we’ve just left... Read More
Is ‘Game of Thrones’ the ‘Lord of the Rings: Return of the King’ of the 2019 Emmys?
In 2001, Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring made its way to theaters. It was the first of a groundbreaking trilogy as... Read More
2019 Emmys: Creative Arts Emmy winner predictions in Guest Acting, Casting, Music categories and more
If you listened to this week’s Emmy podcast about the Creative Arts Emmy Awards this weekend you’ll have a good idea where Emmy beat writer... Read More
Emmy Podcast #30: Creative Arts Emmy Winner Predictions
The Creative Arts Emmys, a two-night affair celebrating the technical achievements of the television season such as lighting, editing and cinematography, are this weekend –... Read More
Oscar Predictions: Post-Telluride, mid-Venice, pre-TIFF set your sights on Renée Zellweger, Adam Driver and ‘Parasite’
With Telluride just finishing, Venice still underway, and Toronto starting tomorrow, we are smack in the middle of the fall festival kickoff of awards season... Read More
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