2024 Oscar Predictions: BEST DIRECTOR and BEST PICTURE (May)
Last year, I kicked off my Oscar predictions just after Cannes, after Ruben Östlund won his second Palme d’Or and took that win all the... Read More
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2024 Oscar Predictions: BEST ACTRESS (May)
It’s only May but between Sundance and the currently underway Cannes Film Festival, Best Actress is already a buffet this season with two major pick-ups... Read More
2024 Oscar Predictions: BEST ACTOR (May)
As a 9-time Oscar nominee in four different categories, Bradley Cooper should be in his George Clooney or Kenneth Branagh era by now but the... Read More
2024 Oscar Predictions: SUPPORTING ACTRESS (May)
As mentioned in this month’s Supporting Actor piece yesterday, the awards history for The Color Purple, the 1985 film, 2005 Broadway musical and its subsequent... Read More
2024 Oscar Predictions: SUPPORTING ACTOR (May)
Picture it, May 2023. My first supporting actor Oscar predictions of last season and in the top 5 are *checks notes* Robert De Niro and... Read More
2024 Oscar Predictions: ADAPTED SCREENPLAY and ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY (May)
I’m kicking off my early 2024 Oscar predictions this season with Adapted Screenplay and Original Screenplay, a full four months earlier than last year. Why?... Read More
2023 Tony Awards nomination predictions: The Plays – Leading actresses given short shrift this season
With seventeen new plays and six revivals eligible for Tony consideration this season, there’s a lot to wade through this year. And yet, in a... Read More
2023 Tony Awards nomination predictions: The Musicals – Expect ‘Some Like It Hot’ and ‘Sweeney Todd’ to score
Theater lovers, we did the thing: We made it through another theatrical season of musicals, comedies, and plenty of drama! From the nastiness erupting in... Read More
2023 Emmy Predictions: Drama Series categories are an HBO showdown
Now that we’re a couple of weeks into April and every series imaginable has premiered (or will within the next two weeks), it’s time to... Read More
2023 Emmy Predictions: Limited Series and Television Movie categories are a mad scramble to beat the deadline
Does it seem like we’re getting even more limited and anthology series programming right now? Probably because we are. New Emmys, new rules. Limited and... Read More
2024 North Carolina Film Critics Association (NCFCA) Nominations 
2024 Philadelphia Film Critics Circle (PFCC) Winners: ‘Anora’ Named Best Film Among its Six Awards 
2024 Utah Film Critics Association (UFCA) Nominations 
2024 Black Reel Awards Nominations: ‘Nickel Boys,’ ‘The Piano Lesson’ Lead