2025 Oscar Predictions: SUPPORTING ACTOR (August)
Reiterating my Best Actress predictions, with Venice, TIFF and NYFF lineups revealed, save a few titles over the next couple of weeks, and Telluride just around the corner, who’s showing... Read More
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Director Watch Podcast Ep. 58 – ‘Unstoppable’ (Tony Scott, 2010)
Welcome to Director Watch! On this AwardsWatch podcast, co-hosts Ryan McQuade and Jay Ledbetter attempt to breakdown, analyze, and ultimately, get inside the mind of... Read More
Director Watch Podcast Ep. 57 – ‘Deja Vu (Tony Scott, 2006) with guest Brendan Cassidy of InSession Film
Welcome to Director Watch! On this AwardsWatch podcast, co-hosts Ryan McQuade and Jay Ledbetter attempt to breakdown, analyze, and ultimately, get inside the mind of... Read More
Director Watch Ep. 55 – ‘Man on Fire’ (Tony Scott, 2004) with guest Dave Giannini of InSession Film
Welcome to Director Watch! On this AwardsWatch podcast, co-hosts Ryan McQuade and Jay Ledbetter attempt to breakdown, analyze, and ultimately, get inside the mind of... Read More
2025 Oscar Predictions: SUPPORTING ACTOR (July)
We got our first look at Gladiator II earlier this month and with it two-time Academy Award winner Denzel Washington, who brings some deep bench... Read More
‘Gladiator II’ First Looks at Paul Mescal, Pedro Pascal, Denzel Washington, Joseph Quinn, Connie Nielsen in Ridley Scott’s Long-Awaited Sequel
Vanity Fair today revealed the exclusive first looks at Gladiator II from Ridley Scott and starring Paul Mescal, Pedro Pascal, Denzel Washington, Joseph Quinn, Fred... Read More
Director Watch Podcast Ep. 52 – ‘Crimson Tide’ (Tony Scott, 1995)
Welcome to Director Watch! On this AwardsWatch podcast, co-hosts Ryan McQuade and Jay Ledbetter attempt to breakdown, analyze, and ultimately, get inside the mind of... Read More
2025 Oscar Predictions: SUPPORTING ACTOR (June)
Kieran Culkin may be adding an Oscar to his Emmy win last season with one Sundance’s biggest films, Searchlight Pictures’ A Real Pain, which was... Read More
AwardsWatch Podcast Ep. 236: Greatest Movie Stars of All Time Draft
On episode 236 of The AwardsWatch Podcast, Executive Editor Ryan McQuade is joined by AwardsWatch Editor-In-Chief Erik Anderson, Associate Editor Sophia Ciminello and AwardsWatch contributors... Read More
FINAL 2022 Oscar Predictions: BEST ACTOR
Will Smith’s Oscar journey started exactly 20 years ago, when he was nominated for his performance as famed boxer Muhammed Ali in 2001’s Ali. He... Read More
2025 Oscar Predictions: BEST ACTRESS (December) 
2024 San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) Nominations 
2024 Las Vegas Film Critics Society (LVFCS) Winners: ‘Dune: Part Two’ Leads with 6 
Interview: Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor on the Camera Being a Proxy For Her Grandson in ‘Nickel Boys’