FINAL 2024 Oscar Predictions: BEST PICTURE and BEST DIRECTOR
Is it just me or do you feel weirdly calm about what’s making it into Best Picture and that it’s going to be the PGA... Read More
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2024 Oscar Predictions: BEST PICTURE and BEST DIRECTOR (December)
With Critics Choice and the Golden Globe nominations in as well as a deluge of critics’ nominations and wins, we have a real race on... Read More
2024 Oscar Predictions: BEST PICTURE and BEST DIRECTOR (October)
As the major fall festivals have just about ended – AFI FEST kicks off this week – festival awards from the regionals, combined with Cannes,... Read More
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
FINAL 2023 Oscar Predictions: BEST DIRECTOR
With the BAFTA winner (Edward Berger for All Quiet on the Western Front) not in contention here and the Golden Globe winner (Steven Spielberg for... Read More
FINAL 2023 Oscar Nomination Predictions: BEST DIRECTOR
As we get to the end of the long, long phase of Oscar season leading up to the nominations and as it often happens, we... Read More
2023 Oscar Predictions: BEST DIRECTOR (December)
A funny thing happened on the way to the Oscar shortlists… Edward Berger’s All Quiet on the Western Front, Germany’s International Feature Film Oscar entry... Read More
2023 Oscar Predictions: BEST DIRECTOR (November)
Can’t really find a reason to alter my top 5 in director just yet, although chatter about the holiday weekend box office of Steven Spielberg’s... Read More
We’ve already talked about how rich Best Actress is this season (and then added yet another contender in Michelle Williams) but Best Director is a... Read More
2023 Oscar Predictions: BEST DIRECTOR (August)
As we enter the final week before the fall festivals begin, the true kick-off to awards season, Steven Spielberg remains atop my Best Director list... 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