2024 Oscar Predictions: BEST PICTURE and BEST DIRECTOR (November)
The Gotham and BIFA nominations have given us their usual inside look at what the Spirit Awards and BAFTA might look like, a peripheral version... Read More
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Da’Vine Joy Randolph (‘The Holdovers’) to Receive Palm Springs International Film Award for Breakthrough Performance
The Palm Springs International Film Awards has announced that Da’Vine Joy Randolph is the recipient of the Breakthrough Performance Award, for The Holdovers. The Film Awards will take place... Read More
2024 Oscar Predictions: ADAPTED SCREENPLAY and ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY (November)
Keeping Barbie in Original Screenplay for the time being, where its WGA designation is, until the Academy deems it otherwise and likewise Ava DuVernay’s Origin... Read More
2024 Oscar Predictions: FILM EDITING (November)
Oscar nominations will be announced on January 23, 2024, American Cinema Editors (ACE) will reveal their ACE Eddie nominations January 25 and the 96th Academy... Read More
Interview: Alexander Payne on Creating ‘The Holdovers’ and Making It Good til the Last Drop
“Do you want to go outside? It’s a nice day, let’s talk out there.” This was my first bit of direction from Academy Awards nominated... Read More
2023 Montclair Film Festival Competition and Audience Awards: ‘The Holdovers,’ American Symphony,’ ‘The Taste of Things’ and more
DO NOT EXPECT TOO MUCH FROM THE END OF THE WORLD directed by Radu Jude wins the 2023 Montclair Film Festival Fiction Feature Competition, Lila... Read More
2024 Oscar Predictions: ADAPTED SCREENPLAY and ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY (October)
The top three in both Adapted (Oppenheimer, Killers of the Flower Moon, Poor Things) and Original (Barbie, The Holdovers, Past Lives) remain in place and... Read More
2024 Oscar Predictions: ADAPTED SCREENPLAY and ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY (September)
After weeks of debate and discussion among awards fans and pundits, Warner Bros officially announced it will run the Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach-penned Barbie... Read More
With the Venice, Telluride and Toronto film festivals now behind us, films seen and awards given out, we’re in a better place to visualize Oscar... Read More
AwardsWatch Podcast #201: TIFF 2023 Wrap Up
On episode 201 of The AwardsWatch Podcast, Executive Editor Ryan McQuade is joined by Editor-In-Chief Erik Anderson and AwardsWatch contributors Dan Bayer and Kevin L.... Read More
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2025 Oscar Predictions: ADAPTED SCREENPLAY and ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY (October) 
47th Denver Film Festival Adds Joan Chen, Virgil Williams, Malcolm Washington, Gabriel LaBelle, Cory Michael Smith to Honoree List 
2025 Oscar Predictions: Below the Line Categories Part 2 – MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING, SOUND, ORIGINAL SCORE, ORIGINAL SONG, VISUAL EFFECTS (October)