Predictions Friday — DGA, ASC, CAS, Scripter!
The speediest Oscar race of all-time continues with another awards blitz weekend. The BIG ONE happens on Saturday night — ...
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Predictions Friday — Final Oscar Nomination Predictions
And away we go... General rules to follow: For Best Picture: actors tend to rule. For predicting upsets: sometimes you ...
Predictions Friday — The Golden Globes to Finally Make Landfall, All of the Heat Is in Best Director
There are five films this year that are nominated in the Best Director category. They are the strongest films of ...
Predictions Friday: Last Look Before Those Golden Globes
On January 5th, the Golden Globes will announce their winners. It will be the only major publicity event to take ...
Predictions Friday: Fireplace Family Time and the Screener Pile
The holidays are at last upon us. And you know what that means — that means filmmaker's families gathering round ...
Predictions Friday – The Pressure is On
Usually by this time of year, it is pretty easy to predict the Oscar race. After the Globes and the ...
Predictions Friday – Never Forget the Preferential Ballot
When people predict Best Picture, they are almost always thinking about it wrong. Almost always. They are seeing it the ...
Predictions Friday – The National Board of Review is Coming
In four days, the National Board of Review will announce their winners. We will be standing by, waiting for them ...
Predictions Friday – SAG Ensemble and the Acting Races
Everywhere you look it's actors actors actors. All of the Best Picture frontrunners are full of outstanding actors. It is ...
Predictions Friday – Fasten Your Seatbelts for a Wide Open Race
There are various versions of this year's Oscar race. There are a lot of angles being covered and no clear ...
Predictions Friday – Just How White Are the Oscars Going to Be?
I was a little surprised that The Hollywood Reporter's Netflix story asks whether there would be three Netflix nominees for ...
Predictions Friday: Can Joker Also Get in for Best Picture or Best Director?
There is no doubt that Todd Phillips' Joker has struck a chord. Where people say it's dark and nihilistic at ...
Predictions Friday – It’s Not What WE Think, It’s What THEY Think
I've been saying it for a long time now, so long that I assume everyone already knows this -- but ...
Predictions Friday: The Fog of War
The Oscar story for 2019 isn't yet told. The big stories from last year would probably be what happens when ...
Predictions Friday – The Irishman Crashes the Party in a Big Way
The Irishman has now had its first screening at the New York Film Festival. It was also screened for a ...
Predictions Friday – The Presumed Frontrunners and Their Challengers
What's all the buzz in the Oscar race now? Well, there isn't actual Oscar buzz, as you may know. Right ...
Predictions Friday – Final Oscar Predictions aka the Year that Broke the Oscar Pundits
No one really seems to know if this year will indeed be as unpredictable as it seems right now. If ...
Predictions Friday — Last Looks Before Tuesday’s Ballot Deadline
This grim and fretful Oscar season, which should be much more of a celebration than the fear and panic in ...
Predictions Friday: Final Oscar Voting Ends in One Week
This is the most fertile time for final Oscar voting, for surges and for smears. It's like how Trump talked ...
Predictions Friday – Part Two – When a Foreign Language Film Is Up for Best Picture
In one sense, the past no longer matters when we're talking about the Oscar race. The preferential ballot plus the ...