Frontrunner Friday has returned after a month to digest the impact that Venice, Telluride and Toronto had on the Oscar playing field and it was definitely substantial. What it didn’t do, however, is solidify among us Oscar pundits an actual frontrunner. You ask one of us and they’ll say A Star Is Born has it. You ask another and it’s …
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Mahershala Ali, Green Book (Universal) Previous…Best Actress Next…Supporting Actress
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Oscar nominee Timothée Chalamet (Call Me By Your Name) remains atop the Supporting Actor chart for another month with the drug addiction family drama Beautiful Boy and again with newly minted Supporting Actor Oscar winner Sam Rockwell (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) on his heels at #2 with Dick Cheney biopic Backseat starring as then-president George W. Bush. After that …
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Timothée Chalamet, who earned his first Oscar nomination earlier this year in Best Actor for Call Me By Your Name, is the new crown-wearer in Best Supporting Actor for April with Beautiful Boy (above, with Steve Carell). The 22-year old is definitely looking at a return to the Dolby in classic ‘afterglow’ nomination style with a searing biopic playing a …
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Here we go. After one of the wildest and most unpredictable Oscar seasons in recent memory with regards to the top category, Best Picture, the Gold Rush Gang and myself have finally settled on our final Oscar winner predictions. Or have we? LISTEN: Oscar Podcast #65: FINAL Oscar winner predictions with Vanity Fair’s Joanna Robinson Three films have #1 spots …
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Sam Rockwell (Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri) maintains a solidly perfect score at #1 while critics’ favorite Willem Dafoe (The Florida Project) is #2 across the board. Something drastic would need to happen to change those up and it’s not impossible. The backlash against Three Billboards and its depiction of racism, while featuring very little attention to its meager black …
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With the SAG, Golden Globe and Critics’ Choice nominations out now we turn to ‘Who Has What?’ in the hunt for an acting Oscar nomination. This year, 16 performers have captured all three precursor nominations but as we often see, at least one of these names stands a chance of being the season’s major snub. We just saw it happen in January when Amy Adams …
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After months of moving the puzzle pieces around for Best Supporting Actor between Willem Dafoe (The Florida Project), Sam Rockwell (Three Billboards) and Michael Stuhlbarg (Call Me By Your Name), and even the recent surge of Armie Hammer (Call Me By Your Name), the first trio of major critics’ awards (the National Board of Review, the New York Film Critics Circle and the Los Angeles …
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Best Picture Best Director Best Actor Best Actress Best Supporting Actor Best Supporting Actress Next: Original & Adapted Screenplay, Film Editing, Cinematography, Production and Costume Design
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BEST PICTURE [visualizer id=”23692″] (hover over the graph for more details…) 01. La La Land (98%; 151 votes) 02. Manchester by the Sea (96%; 148 votes) 03. Silence (93%; 143 votes) 04. Jackie (92%; 142 votes) 05. Moonlight (89%; 137 votes) 06. Arrival (74%; 114 votes) 06. Fences (74%; 114 votes) 08. Sully (53%; 81 votes) 09. Lion (49%; 75 …
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