Frontrunner Friday Oscar Predictions: Bombshells, Bales and Marches
Hot off the first screenings of Bombshell, which vaulted Charlize Theron and Margot Robbie up Oscar predictions charts everywhere (including mine), another unseen December release,... Read More
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2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions: BEST ACTRESS (October)
Although I still very comfortable with Renée Zellweger singing her way to a 2nd Oscar win in Judy, Charlize Theron in Bombshell is going to... Read More
2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions: ADAPTED SCREENPLAY (October)
Jojo Rabbit bounces back this month, while A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood just hangs on, precariously, to the top 5. Adapted Screenplay is rather... Read More
2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions: ORIGINAL SCORE and ORIGINAL SONG (October)
Not a move this month in Original Score, which is feeling very solid at the moment. Obviously though, we’ll have a clear picture on December... Read More
2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions: PRODUCTION DESIGN & COSTUME DESIGN (October)
Ahead of its release, Ad Astra was feeling very much like it was taking an identical trajectory to 2018’s First Man and indeed, it has... Read More
Frontrunner Friday Oscar Predictions: It’s peach season as ‘Parasite’ ripens this weekend
The big news this week was the official list from the Academy of the record-breaking 93 countries that will compete for the (newly named) International... Read More
Frontrunner Friday: ‘The Irishman,’ ‘1917,’ ‘Richard Jewell,’ light up the Oscar race
It’s the first Frontrunner Friday of the 2019-2020 Oscar season and for good reason: since the September Oscar predictions we’ve had Netflix’s The Irishman screen... Read More
2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions: ADAPTED SCREENPLAY (September)
Discussions, arguments and confirmations have come in since last month for a few screenplays that found themselves with one foot dipped into each of the... Read More
2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions: ORIGINAL SCORE and ORIGINAL SONG (September)
The top three in Original Score remains the same this month, with two Oscar winners (John Williams and Alexandre Desplat) and now the most-nominated living... Read More
2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions: PRODUCTION DESIGN & COSTUME DESIGN (September)
The luxuriant production design (and a big part of the film’s $90M budget) bumps Sony/Columbia’s Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood up one to the top... Read More
79th BAFTA Film Awards: ‘One Battle After Another’ Takes Best Film, Director; Robert Aramayo Wins Best Actor 
53rd Annie Awards: ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Makes History with Clean Sweep of 10 Wins 
6th Set Decorators Society of America (SDSA) Awards: ‘Frankenstein,’ ‘Hamnet,’ ‘One Battle After Another’ Take Top Honors 
76th Berlin Film Festival Awards: ‘Yellow Letters’ Wins Golden Bear for Best Film; ‘Queen at Sea’ Nabs Two Among Festival Unrest Over Politics