Brad Pitt is a star. The ‘kind they don’t make any more’ kind of Hollywood star. This weekend he’ll win his first acting Oscar. He’s... Read More
oscar predictions
Feel the Dern, baby. There’s really nothing that can stop Laura Dern (Marriage Story) from winning her first Oscar and no amount of ‘but she... Read More
The screenplay categories, and especially original, have the widest range of winners across the multiple precursors leading up to the Oscar of any field in... Read More
Film Editing in never an easy category when one of the Best Picture frontrunners isn’t nominated here but it’s not like it hasn’t happened before.... Read More
Let’s not waste any time. It’s 1917. Here are my ranked Final Oscar predictions in Cinematography with a chart of a decade of related precursors... Read More
Much like Thomas Newman in Original Score, we have another double digit nominee here in Original Song that’s never won: Diane Warren, who earned her... Read More
1917 or Ford v Ferrari? 1917 and Ford v Ferrari? The Sound categories, editing and mixing, could go a few ways. 1917 will take both,... Read More
2015’s Ex Machina blew the doors off 35 years of the Visual Effects category being the first winner since 1970’s Tora! Tora! Tora! to win... Read More
Like the International Feature Film branch, the Documentary branch has been the most notoriously insular and withholding branch of the Academy. Continued pressure to change... Read More
Whether it’s critics or the Academy themselves, each of this category (formerly called Foreign Language Film) there seems to be one film that is propped... Read More

Final 2020 Oscar Predictions – SUPPORTING ACTOR
Final 2020 Oscar Predictions – SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Final 2020 Oscar Predictions – ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Final 2020 Oscar Predictions – FILM EDITING
Final 2020 Oscar Predictions – CINEMATOGRAPHY
Final 2020 Oscar Predictions – ORIGINAL SONG
Final 2020 Oscar Predictions – SOUND EDITING and SOUND MIXING
Final 2020 Oscar Predictions – VISUAL EFFECTS
Final 2020 Oscar Predictions – DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Final 2020 Oscar Predictions – INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM
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