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 ...
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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 ...
Predictions Friday: Money Changes Everything
The only real difference between film critics now and film critics when I first started covering the Oscars is that ...
Predictions Friday: Who Will Be the Nominations Leader and Does That Even Matter Anymore?
How we think about the Oscar race has, in many ways, remained the same for decades. Conventional wisdom says that ...
Predictions Friday: It’s Screener Time
The time between right now and after the new year is the most crucial time frame in the entire Oscar ...
Predictions Friday Ahead of a Big Weekend for Critics Awards
Every win changes the conversation. This weekend we'll get a few more of those. Los Angeles throws their hat in ...
Predictions Friday: Escaping Reality and Tripping the Light Fantastic
A Star Is Born is back. Mary Poppins is back. Box office is back. Popular films are BACK!? With the ...