The State of the Race: One More Day of Voting
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The State of the Race: All Over but the Shouting
The longest Oscar race in history has finally come to a close. As the BAFTA, DGA and ADG have rung ...
The State of the Race – The Actors (and AFTRA) Have Spoken
There is one more guild to go that will determine Best Picture and that is the Directors Guild, who announce ...
The State of the Race — Riders on the (Perfect) Storm
Probably to anyone who pays attention to the ins and outs of the Oscar game at all would recognize this ...
The State of the Race: The First Big Guild Lights a Path
The Writers Guild Awards held their award show virtually, as have all of the awards shows so far. There is ...
The State of the Race: How the Winners Will Be Decided
The Oscar race, like much of Hollywood and the entertainment industry and the political Left of this country are caught ...
The State of the Race – A Nervous Industry Awaits the Oscar Nominations
As three members of the Hollywood Foreign Press took to the stage in their virtual ceremony to officially apologize for ...
The State of the Race: Best Picture and the DGA Five
This is a really weird time to be covering the Oscars. It's a real weird time period. Just as with ...
The State of the Race – Now the PGA Have Spoken, What Now?
The Producers Guild announced their 10 nominees today and the DGA, BAFTA, and ASC will ring in tomorrow. The Oscar ...
Globes Redux: The Short Run, The Hot Take and the Long Game
“They say that Heaven is like TV. A perfect little world that doesn’t really need you. And everything there is ...
The State of the Oscar Race: Voters Flying Blind
Considering the awards and nominations we've seen so far, before we even get to PGA or DGA, we have our ...
The State of the Race: In the Aftermath of the SAG Drop
This morning we heard at last from BAFTA as they released their long list. This is the first year of ...
The State of the Race – What to Make of the Big Awards Dump of AFI, NBR and the Spirits
The Oscar race is rattling along like a car in the desert you had to use because your more reliable ...
Art, the Oscars and the Gilded Cage
Novelist and Screenwriter Bruce Wagner tells a story on the podcast The Unspeakable with writer Meghan Daum whose podcast is ...
The State of the Race: The Oscars in a Time of Division
When I first started Oscarwatch.com back in 1999 Bill Clinton was on the way out. The Oscars still cared about ...
The State of the Race: Heading into the Thick of It in a Season of Trauma
Oscar season proper has just started. You might have noticed the For Your Consideration ads springing up. As it's been ...
The Oscars as the World Burns
It has been a long and exhausting year for America and other countries around the world. Nothing seems all that ...
Best Picture – Films that Reflect The Story of America in 2020
If we look close enough and listen hard enough to the films that resonate, maybe we can spot the ones ...
The State of the Race: Is the Race Locked or Wide Open?
I have always believed that the Oscars are mostly fluid, not static. That is, unless they aren't. Some years are ...
The State of the Race: The Oscars are Still a Hot Mess
Okay my friends, there is no getting around it. The Oscars feel like a ship that has sunk and all ...
