Oscar Podcast #40: Toronto and Venice Festival Lineups, Updated Oscar Predictions

Published by
Share

In our 40th Oscar podcast, I am joined by Gold Rush Gang members Richard Anthony and, new this season, Bryan Bonafede.

With the announcements this week of the Toronto and Venice film festival lineups, that gives us lots to talk about in terms of who rises (La La Land, Arrival) and who falls (Loving, Moonlight) in our Oscar predictions. The upcoming Telluride announcement will be even more telling and we talk about some of the films expected there as well.

We detail updated predictions in Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress and wonder is Ruth Negga (Loving) is as locked as some of us (meaning I) think she is and how we build our predictions. How many performances from a single film will get Oscar nominated? Is Best Actor skewing too young and is there room for a newcomer in Best Actress? Why are Supporting Actor and Supporting Actress so bleak right now and are Liam Neeson (Silence) and Michelle Williams (Manchester by the Sea) going to be runaway winners?

All this and much more on this podcast that runs just about two hours.

iTunes
Permalink
Direct Download
YouTube

Erik Anderson

Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013. He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.

View Comments

Recent Posts

‘The Balconettes’ Review: Noémie Merlant Lets Loose in Topical, Genre-bending Romp | Cannes

Noémie Merlant first gained universal recognition in Celine Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire… Read More

May 19, 2024

‘Oh Canada’ Review: Proxy Richard Gere is Superb as Paul Schrader Points the Camera at Himself | Cannes

A Venice mainstay himself, Schrader premiered his newest chamber piece, Oh Canada in this year’s… Read More

May 19, 2024

‘Armand’ Review: Renate Reinsve is Electric as a Woman on the Verge in Halfdan Ullman Tøndel’s Enigmatic Debut | Cannes

Ever since Renate Reinsve stunned the Cannes Film Festival as a disaffected millennial in Joachim… Read More

May 18, 2024

‘Kinds of Kindness’ Review: Domination and Submission Grab Hold in Fresh Triptych for the Lanthimos-pilled | Cannes

Remember the myriad of ways Queen Anne demanded affection from her court in Yorgos Lanthimos’… Read More

May 18, 2024

‘Three Kilometers to the End of the World’ Review: Emanuel Pârvu Examines Homophobia in a Small Romanian Town | Cannes

Romanian cinema has carved a significant niche in international film topography through its strong ties… Read More

May 18, 2024

This website uses cookies.