Predictions Friday

In the last gasp of the 2020/2021 Oscar year, there are four films being released, and three of them will...

According to AwardsWatch, the critics awards will be coming fast and furiously in the next couple of weeks: 13th –...

This past week, a few eagerly-awaited movies made landfall. Ryan Murphy's The Prom, Steven Soderbergh's Let Them All Talk, and...

Predicting a Best Picture winner is hard. As one Oscar voter once told me, ideally it's simply the "best picture."...

There have been enough times now when Golden Globe and Oscar voters have surprised pundits by choosing films way outside...

The Oscar race is kind of, sort of taking shape at the moment. But there has not yet been the...

Netflix has been rolling out Mank to critics and bloggers before the review embargo lifts in a few days and...

You learn a lot when you cover the Oscar race for twenty years. You learn things about the way a...

The speediest Oscar race of all-time continues with another awards blitz weekend. The BIG ONE happens on Saturday night —...

There are five films this year that are nominated in the Best Director category. They are the strongest films of...

On January 5th, the Golden Globes will announce their winners. It will be the only major publicity event to take...

The holidays are at last upon us. And you know what that means — that means filmmaker's families gathering round...

When people predict Best Picture, they are almost always thinking about it wrong. Almost always. They are seeing it the...

There are various versions of this year's Oscar race. There are a lot of angles being covered and no clear...

I was a little surprised that The Hollywood Reporter's Netflix story asks whether there would be three Netflix nominees for...

The Oscar story for 2019 isn't yet told. The big stories from last year would probably be what happens when...

In one sense, the past no longer matters when we're talking about the Oscar race. The preferential ballot plus the...

Oh boy, here we go. Welcome to the single most unpredictable Oscars I've witnessed in 20 years. Here it is...

The only real difference between film critics now and film critics when I first started covering the Oscars is that...

How we think about the Oscar race has, in many ways, remained the same for decades. Conventional wisdom says that...