FINAL 2023 Oscar Predictions: CINEMATOGRAPHY
A funny category this year, cinematography, where the overwhelming critics’ winner, Top Gun: Maverick, the most populist film of 2022, was the category’s shocking snub.... Read More
Predictions
FINAL 2023 Oscar Predictions: SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Chaos reigns. Best Actress might be a very close two-person race but Supporting Actress is where the action is with three contenders are realistically vying... Read More
FINAL 2023 Oscar Predictions: SUPPORTING ACTOR
In a year of a tremendous amount of narratives for actors and their complicated paths to comebacks, none stands taller than that of Ke Huy... Read More
FINAL 2023 Oscar Predictions: ADAPTED SCREENPLAY and ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
The screenplay categories at the Oscars often exist in two worlds; you’re either aligned with the Best Picture winner or be a screenplay that’s either... Read More
FINAL 2023 Oscar Predictions: FILM EDITING and SOUND
Since 2013, the Film Editing and Sound Oscars have gone hand-in-hand, regardless of the Sound category being two separate ones (editing and mixing) or merged... Read More
FINAL 2023 Oscar Predictions: MAKEUP and HAIRSTYLING
I think there are only two ways this will go and it’s either Elvis or The Whale. Both are Makeup and Hair Stylists guild (MUAH)... Read More
FINAL 2023 Oscar Predictions: ORIGINAL SONG
There is no real Best Picture/Original Song correlation historically but, like Original Score, there is a Golden Globe connection. The last time the Oscar winner... Read More
FINAL 2023 Oscar Predictions: ORIGINAL SCORE
Since 1999, when the Original Score category merged into one, after four years of being split between comedy and dramatic scores and long after the... Read More
FINAL 2023 Oscar Predictions: COSTUME DESIGN
As I mentioned in my Production Design predictions, Catherine Martin is 2/2 in this category and PD (for 2001’s Moulin Rouge! and 2013’s The Great... Read More
FINAL 2023 Oscar Predictions: PRODUCTION DESIGN
With Art Directors Guild (ADG), BAFTA and Critics’ Choice, Babylon is the film to beat for Production Design. While the first Avatar won this category... Read More
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