2026 Oscar Predictions

The Oscar race has become a small, insulated bubble, separate from the rest of the country and even the film...

Mark Johnson, the Awards Alchamist from AwardsWatch and from The Contending, joins me for a conversation about how important stats...

The tastemakers will be descending upon the mountains of Telluride and the sea breeze of Venice just a week from...

The actors still rule the Academy, but there is no doubt that things have dramatically changed in the past few...

To understand why Sinners is strong heading into Oscar season is to understand this moment and these voters. This does...

When I first started this site, way back in 1999, one of the reasons was that my film snob friends...

Michael Patterson has begun the hunt for titles that might play at Telluride. He's fairly accurate in his predictions every...

Predicting the Oscars isn't hard. At least, it isn't hard anymore. It's all about the tastemakers, the publicists and the...

The next Monday after this one, the first of the fall festivals, will announce its lineup. The Venice Film Festival...

Joseph Kosinski's F1: The Movie is not better than Top Gun: Maverick, but that's mostly because we have an emotional...