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BlacKkKlansmanA Star Is Born It’s been a week. Throngs of guild nomination announcements came in, continuing to help shape the Oscar race. Sunday was the Golden Globes, the first televised awards of the season that often frontrunners solid footing or gives someone a crucial boost they need. All of those things happened but nothing bigger came this week than the …

It’s the last Frontrunner Friday of 2018 and I’m closing it out with predictions, of course, but also a deep look into what could be a great divide between critics and the Academy this year. It’s often griped that the Oscars don’t, or shouldn’t, align with critics because critics don’t vote on the Oscars. Fair enough, as critics have their …

Last week, the Golden Globe nominations put Vice on the Oscar map after months of wondering how that film might factor in. They loved The Favourite, Green Book and A Star Is Born. We weren’t even done reeling over the Kevin Hart Oscar host debacle when this week, the Critics’ Choice went in deep for First Man, a film that …

Two big trailer drops both impact multiple Oscar races in this week’s Frontrunner Friday.  No country for old white men? Vice and The Mule aim to crash the Oscar race First was Vice, Adam McKay’s satire of the rise of Dick Cheney through the ranks of US government all the way up to his vice presidency under George W. Bush. We know Christian Bale is …

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 …

What a difference a week makes in awards season. Just 11 days ago the mid-December Best Picture predictions came out with Dunkirk atop the chart and stealth contenders Get Out and Lady Bird at #5 and #6, respectively. Cue to the Golden Globe and (especially) the Screen Actors Guild nominations where both films scored. Now, Lady Bird is perched in …

Not much has changed since the last Frontrunner Friday. Dunkirk sits atop the list once again with only a very small 1-point downturn. It’s impressive that the summer blockbuster is still managing to remain the default frontrunner in a season that doesn’t really have one. Or, are we so ingrained now that an Oscar frontrunner can only come from a …

It would be impossible to not start an Oscar race piece without mentioning the explosive accusations against, and fallout of, one of Hollywood’s most ferocious Oscar players – Harvey Weinstein. Long known for his bullying, aggressive behavior and shady awards techniques, not of that compared to the allegations from literally dozens of women, from actresses to journalists, who said that …

It’s the first day of fall and the Venice, Telluride and Toronto Film Festivals have wrapped and by now a Best Picture frontrunner has usually emerged. But not this year. Things are more up in the air than they’ve been in years, a decade maybe. For a few months Dunkirk was the default frontrunner just as an early release, and …

We have a new #1 in Best Picture this Frontrunner Friday (July 21) with Dunkirk. It also happens to be the opening day for the highly anticipated Christopher Nolan film. With a Thursday preview total of $5.5M, the WWII-era film told in three timelines is poised for a healthy opening weekend, further boosting its awards chances. Add to that a …