For our final contest, which isn’t really a contest, we leave you for this very bizarre and suspense-filled Oscar year with a challenge. Please pick three very unlikely things that might happen. Really out there, wild things that might take hold. Here are mine. 1. Benh Zeitlin and Luci Alibar win adapted screenplay for Beasts of the Southern Wild 2. Benh Zeitlin...
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According to Oscar/DGA history, no director has ever won the DGA, lost an Oscar nomination for directing, then won Best Picture. It’s not happened ever, going back to 1949. So if this is a crazy year, as everyone keeps saying, you will see something happen that has never happened. On the other hand, it’s possible that (I don’t know for sure) the...
Well, as Iggy Pop would say, it will all be over soon. There are so many weird surprises that could take place tomorrow since all of the nominations came after Oscar ballots were turned in. BAFTA did their voting completely differently this year and for the first time ever we’re making our nominations for the editing category without the Ace Eddie nominations! Honestly,...
Since tomorrow the DGA will be announcing their nominees for Best Director. Let’s play a little round of No Guts, No Glory. My predictions are: Steven Spielberg, Kathryn Bigelow, Ben Affleck, Ang Lee and David O. Russell (alts are Tarantino and Hooper) My No Guts, No Glory pick? Benh Zeitlin, Beasts of the Southern Wild Don’t forget to enter our DGA predictions...
Okay my good friends, dear readers, haters, and Oscar watchers our final No Guts, No Glory for the year. We’ve been doing this a long time. You remember the rules. Up to three and they have to be outlandish predictions, something that really isn’t being predicted to win. Predicting Meryl Streep to win in Best Actress really doesn’t qualify. Predicting...
You know the rules. Three possible but unlikely scenarios that might play out tomorrow. It has to be something wild. Something wicked. Something utterly incomprehensible. Something that could never, would never, won’t ever happen. But what if it does. What if it does! Okay, here are mine. I’m not giving up on Harry Potter yet. 1. Harry Potter for Best...
For our 12th Annual No Guts, No Glory you can name three potential upsets — like serious upsets — that might happen tomorrow morning. They have to be near impossibilities. But still within the realm of reality. Pick up to 3. My three are: 1. Harry Potter for ensemble 2. Drive for ensemble 3. Demian Bechir for Best Actor ...