Sasha Stone, Scott Kernen and Jeremy Jentzen talk the Oscar race. We go through our predictions for PGA, DGA and Best Picture. And for fun, we chose our top 20 favorite Best Actress predictions. Scenes discussed or on podcast:

The 1990s—FINALLY! The decade that brought you ME—and some of my all-time favorite movies. The nineties were one of the greatest decades for winners and a time that stirs up so much passion! Who doesn’t love this decade?! My first movie-going experience was in 1995, with a little-known film called Toy Story. I can still remember it like it was yesterday: the sticky floors, the smell of buttered popcorn. Toy Story was everything to me. I was the same age as Andy,...

You can subscribe to this newsletter here. One Battle After Another is limping along, heading toward a haul of around $200 million worldwide. The critics and industry will spin this as a success, or at least not a failure. Why the movie cost $140 million or so is not relevant to the broader objectiveDoes the movie accurately reflect today’s industry? Yes, it does. Its success reflects an industry that is cut off from the rest of the country but considers international markets...

As we continue to progress through this season (right now being what one would consider to be the “quiet before the storm”), let’s look at other notable precursors and what individuals think could be nominated for each one, starting with the two most influential. Those two being the Producers Guild of America and the Directors Guild of America. For this week’s article, let’s focus on the Producers Guild.  The PGA (Producers Guild of America) Voted on by members of the guild above,...

It's not often celebrities do decent things anymore. Most of the time, they, like much of Hollywood, believe they are an island unto themselves, and the only people who matter are those on the island, or in the bubble, with them. In 2016, they decided that American culture, the legacy media, and most institutions belonged to only one side of the country as they cosplayed one fantasy after another about those "monsters" on the outside of their doomsday cult. Well, those monsters...

"People will think..." "What I tell them to think." -- Citizen Kane Most movies in the screener pile are movies Oscar voters do not want to watch. It's been years of this by now. It's pure misery much of the time. It's angry. It's political. It's often grotesque. It's preachy. It's agonizing. It's anything but pure pleasure. That's why they don't watch all of the movies, and yet Film Twitter and many purists demand they eat their vegetables. This is true every...

Sasha, Scott and Jeremy assemble to bitch about the Gothams and to talk about their impact, and then look at some of the contenders and where they stand in the race. In the second half, we talk about our top twenty favorite Best Picture winners. Below are the scenes that played in the clip. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hO66DoF7fGc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGa24OtDkq8&t=136s  

You can subscribe to this newsletter by clicking here. Finally, someone at Penske Media addressed the box-office catastrophe of 2025. Naturally, it’s Anthony D’Alessandro. To his credit, the original title of the piece was “Box Office Bombs,” though it was changed when the piece was posted. How do I know that? Because we can see it in the original title, https://deadline.com/2025/10/box-office-bombs-springsteen-smashing-machine-1236598171/ He doesn’t count One Battle After Another as a bomb, however. He writes: However, the lackluster audience scores on these movies...

I don’t think our community here at Awards Daily has ever looked more beautiful than it did last week when you all so graciously shared your “Coming to Oscars” stories. There wasn’t a single argument or war of words—it was almost a modern-day miracle. I say that mostly jokingly, but really, it was a rare moment of peace around here. To me, it was a reminder of what sharing our stories can do—it made us remember what inspired our passion for cinema...

The Gothams are best understood by the people chosen to judge them. No explanation is necessary when you look at the list. It hardly matters to the rest of the awards punditry because they are treated as legit when, in fact, they are anything but. Before I give you the nominations, here are the judges (courtesy of Next Best Picture), and thus, all to be taken with a HUGE grain of salt. But here's the thing to know about them. They virtue...

Wicked: For Good has a lane carved out for it in the Oscar race. It is one of those movies I call "too big to fail." It's too big to fail because it's already a cultural phenomenon with Part One. And because Universal is a powerful studio and this movie has hopes of being one of the most profitable this year. Who knows. Maybe it can save Hollywood. Already it has massive ticket sales for Part Two, and most pundits already have...

Continuing on with the above-the-line analysis, it’s quite clear that the one category that continues to raise more questions than answers, even as the nominations approach, is the 24th category in Best Casting. Considered an above-the-line category until further notice, many still wonder what could be in contention for a nomination, let alone a win. Will the voting body lean more towards best picture nominees, or could this race be more unpredictable than some are letting on? Using the Award Expert app,...