Predictions Friday

“The signal is the truth. The noise is what distracts us from the truth.” ― Nate Silver, The Signal and...

Last year's Best Picture winner, Nomadland, ran counter to almost everything we know about the Best Picture race. Anyone paying...

There is the temptation, especially among those new friendos to the Oscar game, to "call it." But if you've been...

Now that Telluride is all the way over, Venice is almost over and Toronto is in full swing, the Oscar...

In just a few days, several prominent films will roll out at Venice and then at Telluride. Venice is getting...

There are two ways films can win Best Picture, or have won Best Picture in the past. One is with...

Most of us barely survived 2020. Of all of the things COVID took away, movie theaters have ranked up there...

In my opinion, and I might be alone in this, when it comes to Best Actress there is Jennifer Hudson...

The Oscar race, as we've come to know it by now, is about to get its ingredients together on the...

In a surprise twist, a new poll released indicates that Generation Z does not approve of "cancel culture." If that...

Looking back on last year, despite everything, had we been thinking with a clearer head it would have been more...

There are two ways to look at splits in the Best Director / Best Picture categories. The first is that...

We're coming into the final stretch here, folks. The longest Oscar season in history is almost over! Here are our...

There is a list going around that is supposedly the leaked winners of the SAG awards. They do know in...

Oh boy. Right about now I think people who cover the Oscars are chewing the walls. That's because we're all...

Hollywood, and the media that revolve around it, is having a moment. In Hollywood, during the Red Scare, the fear...

The longest Oscar season in their (and our) history is about to come to its final act. We're heading into...

The new rules for the BAFTA voting takes them out of bounds a bit in terms of predicting how the...

Anyone who looks broadly at the Oscar race this year will see a potential narrative emerging. It is not a...

Update: We are moving the preferential ballot to a new post. It is the longest Oscar season in the 93...