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The State of the Race – And Then There Were Three
“Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.” – Carl Sagan It will come as a major bummer to many on this site that Geor...
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Predictions Friday – Now the DGA Will Decide
As we head into the weekend, we’re at our last stop before Oscar ballots are mailed out to voters. It’s been a season ful...
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The State of the Race: Circling Monsters, Looking for Redemption
There are still four movies pushing to the center of this year’s Oscar race. They can be divided into two distinct pairs – the ...
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SAG Awards Contest Winners
We had several entries that got perfect scores in our SAG awards contests. They even got Idris Elba! Toby Cooke Gonzalo Pali Cameron ...
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Best Picture – a Plurality Ballot vs. a Preferential Ballot
Since 2009, the Producers Guild and the Oscars have both used the same preferential ballot process to choose their winners. No other ...
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SAG Win Gives Spotlight a Boost
If Bernie Sanders needs to win Iowa to show he’s got the goods, Spotlight needed a big guild award for the same reason. Had it ...
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Predictions Friday – Can Spotlight Surge Ahead?
Now that the PGA has announced The Big Short as its winner, the Best Picture race has spun in a wildly unpredictable direction. Altho...
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Spotlight Producer Blye Faust Invited to Join The Center for Investigative Reporting
From the press release: Blye Faust, producer of the Oscar-nominated film “Spotlight,” has joined the board of directors of The Center...
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Elizabeth Warren Watches The Big Short …
Senator Elizabeth Warren who, along with Bernie Sanders, has been fighting to ensure accountability on Wall Street for the crooks who...
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The State of the Race: Predicting Something that Has Never Happened Before
After The Big Short won the Producers Guild, it was anointed as the Best Picture frontrunner. The thing about the Oscar race is that ...
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The State of the Race: A New Breed of Best Picture Winner Arrives
A funny thing happened to the Academy Awards last year: a film that had seemed most unlikely to take the top prize swept through the ...
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The Big Short Surprises to win Producers Guild
Although most pundits (except me, Mike Burry, M.D.) were predicting either Spotlight, Mad Max or The Revenant to win, The Big Short c...
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Producers Guild to Settle Wide Open Best Picture Race Tonight! Hold onto Your Butts
Finally, this crazy wide open Best Picture race will have its major shaping (most likely) by the Producers Guild announcement tonight...
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Predictions Friday – What We Don’t Know Can’t Hurt Us
It’s all going down in the next few weeks – Producers Guild this weekend, SAG awards the following weekend, DGA awards th...
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Watch the Trailers for Best Picture
The nominees have been announced. Eight films featured in the Best Picture category: The Big Short, Bridge of Spies, Brooklyn, Mad Ma...
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Producers Guild Preview – Testing the Stats and the Preferential Ballot (vote in poll!)
The Producers Guild handed out its first award in 1990, the year Driving Miss Daisy won Best Picture. That remains the only year in t...
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The State of the Race: Hunting Down the Most Powerful Oscar Narrative
The current Oscar race seems very much like two races in one. Usually, there are two films that dominate and go head-to-head. This ye...
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Best Picture Check-in – Box Office and Rotten Tomatoes
Now that all of the films have been released and are making money, it’s time to once again tally up the scores. How much have t...
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Predictions Friday – Don’t Look to Critics Choice for Answers This Weekend
This year, I think I can say, with a fair amount of certainty, that no one will know what direction this ship is headed until the Pro...