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
Predictions
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
Emmy Podcast #28: Winner predictions in the Comedy categories
After a spirited debate on the Drama categories for this year’s Primetime Emmy Awards, Amanda Spears and I return to tackle Comedy and it’s a... Read More
Emmy Podcast #27: Winner predictions in the Drama categories
With all of the episodes submissions in for Drama Series and individual performers, the first Emmy winner prediction podcast is here, tackling the guest, supporting... 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
True/False Film Fest Dispatch #3: ‘Barbara Forever,’ ‘Time and Water,’ ‘American Doctor’ 
FINAL 2026 Oscar Predictions: ADAPTED SCREENPLAY and ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY 
‘All That’s Left of You’ Review: Cherien Dabis’ Drama of Palestinian Origin and Struggle is a Generational Touchstone [A] 
2026 Oscar Predictions: The Awards Alchemist Predicts the Winners – Part One