2021 Oscar Predictions: CINEMATOGRAPHY (January)
Beginning to feel pretty good about this top five, as it stays the same as last month. I toyed with the idea of Newton Thomas... Read More
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2021 Oscar Predictions: COSTUME DESIGN (January)
One of the more potentially open races this season, Oscar-winning and nominated designers like Mark Bridges (News of the World) and Alexandra Byrne (Emma.) will... Read More
2021 Oscar Predictions: PRODUCTION DESIGN (January)
I think I slept on Tenet for too long here. Nathan Crowley is a 5-time nominee in this category, four of them for Christopher Nolan... Read More
2021 Oscar Predictions: MAKEUP and HAIRSTYLING (January)
Things are moving in makeup and hairstyling this month ahead of the official Oscar shortlists coming February 9. Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom makes a big... Read More
2021 Oscar Predictions: VISUAL EFFECTS (January)
Finally a little bit of action in this category. With nearly all of the major player blockbusters that would have dominated this category moved off... Read More
2021 Oscar Predictions: ORIGINAL SONG (January)
Tony and Grammy winner Leslie Odom, Jr. is all but assured to become a double Oscar nominee this year and this month he moves up... Read More
2021 Oscar Predictions: SOUND (January)
War is hell. It’s also a prime Sound Oscar contender zone. Even with the newly merged sound categories, war films and films with lots of... Read More
2021 Oscar Predictions: ORIGINAL SCORE (January)
A handful of scores from major releases were revealed as ineligible ahead of the official list from the Academy (reported by Variety) largely based on... Read More
Frontrunner Friday Oscar Predictions: Blood Brothers
When Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods was released back in June of 2020 it was a test. We were entering the summer without a blockbuster.... Read More
Frontrunner Friday Oscar Predictions: Promising Young Woman
It was just last week that I mentioned in the January 15 Frontrunner Friday that those predictions would be posted just hours before I had... Read More
2025 Oscar Predictions: BEST PICTURE and BEST DIRECTOR (November) 
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