2018 Oscar Predictions: BEST DIRECTOR (October) – Guillermo del Toro and Christopher Nolan Both at #1
Stop me if you think you’ve heard this one before. Just as in Best Picture, the Best Director race is tied at #1 and by... Read More
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2018 Oscar Predictions: BEST PICTURE (October) – Last Flag Flailing, Blade Runner Returns
Usually by this time, the first week of October, we’re talking about the film that came out of the late summer film festivals to emerge... Read More
Oscar Podcast #57: Entering Awards Season Without a Frontrunner
It’s the first Oscar podcast after the big summer film festivals – Venice, Telluride and Toronto – and usually by now we have a frontrunner.... Read More
Frontrunner Friday or: How Late September Doesn’t Have an Oscar Frontrunner
[divider style=”normal” top=”20″ bottom=”20″] It’s the first day of fall and the Venice, Telluride and Toronto Film Festivals have wrapped and by now a Best... Read More
5 Reasons why Three Billboards’ People Choice Award Win at TIFF is a Big Deal
[divider style=”normal” top=”20″ bottom=”20″] The 42nd Toronto International Film Festival wrapped up this last weekend and it left us, for the first time in years,... Read More
10 Performances that Lit Up the Lido at the Venice Film Festival
[divider style=”normal” top=”20″ bottom=”20″] The Venice Film Festival awards will be announced shortly (predictions here) and it will be interesting to see what Annette Bening... Read More
Predicting the Venice Film Festival Awards: Which Films Will Win Big Tomorrow?
[divider style=”normal” top=”20″ bottom=”20″] The Venice Film Festival wraps up tomorrow with its much-anticipated awards ceremony. As with Cannes and other film festivals, it’s almost... Read More
2018 Oscar Predictions: FILM EDITING, SOUND EDITING, SOUND MIXING (September)
Dunkirk holds the beach in Film Editing, Sound Editing and Sound Mixing as it did last month and again by significant margins. Only Blade Runner... Read More
2018 Oscar Predictions: CINEMATOGRAPHY, PRODUCTION DESIGN, COSTUME DESIGN (September)
Blade Runner 2049 continues to top the Cinematography and Production Design charts and Phantom Thread still looms despite not even a single production still or... Read More
Venice Critics and Audience Grids – Which Films Scored Highest?
Unlike the Cannes Film Festival where only critics get their grids, Venice allocates both critic and audience grids to assess how the public and the... Read More
98th Oscars: ‘One Battle After Another’ Wins Best Picture, Best Director for Paul Thomas Anderson 
‘Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice’ Review: BenDavid Grabinski Asks ‘What if Wong Kar-Wai Made a Gangster Love Triangle Sci-Fi Action Buddy Comedy’? [A-] SXSW 
Director Watch Podcast Ep. 143 – ‘I Know Where I’m Going’ (Powell and Pressburger, 1945) 
FINAL Frontrunner Friday Oscar Predictions of the 2025/2026 Season