Contender Tracker

In general, AwardsDaily has never really had traditional Oscar predictions the way other sites have. When I started my site...

To know the Academy, to get Best Picture, it has to start with the actors. While actors can bring you...

There are two ways a supporting contender gets into the Oscar race. The first and most common is that they...

I've been saying it for a long time now, so long that I assume everyone already knows this -- but...

The Best Actress race is suddenly more wide open than it seemed even months ago, not in terms of who...

There are three styles of launching a Best Picture contender that I know about from my *cough cough* two decades...

Right now, at Gold Derby and mostly everywhere online, there are two competing stories for who will win Best Actor....

As we head into the Oscar year that will go down as “The 2020 Oscars,” with all that might one...

We are still in the phase of the Oscar race where hope springs eternal. We've gone through Cannes, Sundance, Telluride,...

The screenplay race, like the director race, is ordinarily tightly tied to Best Picture. Though it can also sometimes be...

All the runners in the Supporting Actress race are not yet at the starting gate, and thus, it's harder to...

The Academy has released its official submissions. Probably you can pretty much guarantee at least two of these nominees off...

If you look backwards in time at the winners of the Best Actress race you will see one thing they...

It's odd that so many observers are concluding they know beyond any doubt who is going to win Best Actor...

Both Julia Roberts and Viola Davis are endlessly watchable stars who command the screen like few others can. Since I...

The Best Actress race is, as a rule, not just about the work. If you approach it that way, not...

The Oscar race has not yet begun to take shape. The new category has upended everything, or at least thrown...

Crazy Rich Asians is a film that, if I put on the contender tracker in previous years, most would never...

The Oscar race officially starts in just two weeks when Venice and Telluride drop their lineup. By the end of...

The Oscar race will be a strange one this year. In some respects it will be business as usual, as...