NextGen Oscarwatcher
Nextgen OscarWatcher: Parsing the DGA and the Remaining 15 Categories
Despite a night full of upsets—including Charlie Polinger taking home First-Time Theatrical Feature for The Plague and Mstyslav Chernov winning...
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Nextgen Oscarwatcher: The Race is Over, Unless It’s Not
Best Picture What began as a competitive field with five films landing both SAG Ensemble and DGA nods has narrowed...
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Nextgen Oscarwatcher: Key Takeaways from the Oscar Nominations
Initial Takeaways from the 2026 Oscar Nominations A few days after the nominations dropped across the 25 major categories, we...
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Nextgen Oscarwatcher: The Final Predictions
With precursors (both major and minor) largely wrapped up, it's time to put the pencils down and take our final...
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Nextgen Oscarwatcher: It’s Paul Thomas Anderson’s World and We Just Live In It
Perhaps it was always going to happen, as it does every year, but the major guilds and the Golden Globes...
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Nextgen Oscarwatcher: The Best Films of 2025
As we enter the final days of 2025 (or if you are reading this after New Year's Eve, Happy New...
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Nextgen Oscarwatcher: Taking the Temperature of the Above the Line Categories
We are in the stage of the Awards Season that I would like to call the “calm before the storm”...
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Nextgen Oscarwatcher: NBR and AFI Preview
As we enter the second phase of Awards Season, which consists of precursors that are tailored by critics, both domestic...
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Nextgen Oscarwatcher: When Oscar Contenders Underwhelm
The talk of the entire Oscar ecosystem (for as large or small as it may be) has been centered on...
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Nextgen Oscarwatcher: Analyzing the other 15 Oscar categories (excluding the shorts)
This is undoubtedly the “calm before the storm” in the Oscar season, with just four films left to be released...
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Oscar Nomination Predictions
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94.7%One Battle after Another (Warner Bros.)
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2.
90.8%Sinners (Warner Bros.)
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75%Hamnet (Focus Features)
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63.2%Sentimental Value (Neon)
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64.5%Marty Supreme (A24)
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67.1%The Secret Agent (Neon)
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63.2%Frankenstein (Netflix)
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63.2%Train Dreams (Netflix)
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63.2%Bugonia (Focus Features)
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61.8%F1 (Apple)
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94.7%One Battle after Another, Paul Thomas Anderson
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82.9%Sinners, Ryan Coogler
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69.7%Hamnet, Chloé Zhao
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63.2%Sentimental Value, Joachim Trier
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63.2%Marty Supreme, Josh Safdie
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89.5%Michael B. Jordan in Sinners
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89.5%Timothée Chalamet in Marty Supreme
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73.7%Wagner Moura in The Secret Agent
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72.4%Leonardo DiCaprio in One Battle after Another
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69.7%Ethan Hawke in Blue Moon
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97.4%Jessie Buckley in Hamnet
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69.7%Rose Byrne in If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
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67.1%Renate Reinsve in Sentimental Value
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4.
64.5%Kate Hudson in Song Sung Blue
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64.5%Emma Stone in Bugonia
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89.5%Sean Penn in One Battle after Another
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81.6%Stellan Skarsgård in Sentimental Value
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77.6%Delroy Lindo in Sinners
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4.
72.4%Benicio Del Toro in One Battle after Another
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71.1%Jacob Elordi in Frankenstein
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84.2%Amy Madigan in Weapons
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86.8%Teyana Taylor in One Battle after Another
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78.9%Wunmi Mosaku in Sinners
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4.
67.1%Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas in Sentimental Value
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5.
64.5%Elle Fanning in Sentimental Value
27th Annual No Guts, No Glory Oscar Edition!
It crazy we've been doing this for so long, or well I have been doing this for so long. The...
