FINAL 2019 Oscar Predictions: MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING
BAFTA may have gone for The Favourite but that film isn’t nominated for the Oscar. Of the three films that are (why are there still... Read More
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FINAL 2019 Oscar Predictions: ADAPTED and ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Spike Lee is finally going to win a competitive Oscar to go along with his Honorary one from 2016. Although the screenplay for BlacKkKlansman has... Read More
FINAL 2019 Oscar Predictions: FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Can anything really beat Roma here? There’s really nothing standing in its way unless you think that the voting body doesn’t want to give the... Read More
FINAL 2019 Oscar Predictions: PRODUCTION DESIGN and COSTUME DESIGN
I’ve sort of hammered away both in print and on podcasts that Production Design and Costume Design go hand in hand and in fact, they... Read More
FINAL 2019 Oscar Predictions: SOUND EDITING and SOUND MIXING
A few months ago we all could have easily called Sound Mixing for A Star Is Born and called it a day. But that was... Read More
FINAL Oscar Predictions: ANIMATED, DOCUMENTARY and LIVE-ACTION SHORT
There’s a wealth of sadness, depravity and dreariness in many of the nominees in the short film categories with a few rays of light that... Read More
FINAL 2019 Oscar Predictions: ANIMATED FEATURE
It’s hard to bet against a film that’s so utterly dominated nearly all precursors and that’s Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. I know people want to... Read More
FINAL 2019 Oscar Predictions: VISUAL EFFECTS
This will be between Avengers: Infinity War, which won the Visual Effects Society’s top prize and First Man, which took the group’s supporting visual effects... Read More
FINAL 2019 Oscar Predictions: DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
A complicated category in a banner year for documentaries with precursor wins going to films not even nominated. PGA and DGA went to Won’t You... Read More
Oscar Podcast #73: FINAL Oscar winner predictions with guest Amanda Spears, creator of the #PresentAll24 movement
Welcome to the AwardsWatch Final Oscar Winner Predictions Podcast! I am honored to be joined by Amanda Spears, the creator of the #PresentAll24 hashtag and... Read More
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