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Category: 90th Oscars (2017)

  • Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 13

    As the precursor awards continue unabated until Oscar night, I’m going to be providing a weekly update highlighting the films that have won and lost momentum through the precursor awards (and in some cases other outside influences). It was a fairly big week for the precursors with the Visual Effects Society (VES), American Society of…

  • 2017 Precursor Predictions: Costume Designers Guild

    The Costume Designers Guild recognizes the best in costume design for the year and, being broken into three categories, has three opportunities to try and correctly predict the Oscars. This year, there’s only two as none of the contemporary nominees made it to the Oscar nominations and the two biggest competitors, Phantom Thread and Beauty…

  • The Rundown 2017: Actor

    For our thirteenth Rundown article, we tackle the top male acting category. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Actor as well as general commentary about the race. Tuesday, we’ll cover a category that has seldom matched up with Best Picture even when it’s one of the most crucial elements…

  • 90th Oscars: The Polls – Best Live Action Short Film

    For the next two weeks, we’re going to present to you polls for who and what you think the best of 2017 was based on the Oscar nominations. Every morning at 8am and 8pm, we’ll post a new poll for each category. Just submit your vote for the best in that category and that’s it.…

  • Precursor: 65th Sound Editors Guild Awards (2017)

    In a surprise for this Oscar season, not only did no film win more than one award from the sound editors, but Blade Runner 2049 took the top award for sound effects and foley while non-Oscar nominee War for the Planet of the Apes captured the Dialogue/ADR award. While Oscar voters aren’t always keen on…

  • Precursor: 59th British Academy Awards (2017)

    The British Academy has selected its winners for this year and a lot of pieces have fallen into place and perhaps not good ones. Three Billboards decimated competition, winning Best Film as well as Best Original Screenplay, the two awards where it had the most competition. It’s victory sets it up as the strongest Best…

  • Precursor: 22nd Online Film & Television Awards (2017)

    The Online Film & Television Association has announced its 2017 awards winners. While most of the winners match what a lot of people are thinking are the Oscar frontrunners, they’ve managed to push forward a couple of ideas: Lady Bird and Get Out are stronger in competition than some might thing with Get Out taking…

  • Precursor: 22nd Satellite Awards (2017)

    In the department of awards that no one seemed to care about, the International Press Academy has selected their winners for 2017. The reason I ask if anyone cares is that we are now a week after their supposed presentation date of February 11 and I’ve only now found their winners. I looked the night…

  • Precursor: 32nd Cinematographers Guild Awards (2017)

    The cinematographers have spoken and although they haven’t the greatest Oscar track record, Blade Runner 2049 remains in the race. Had anyone else, especially Mudbound won, Blade Runner 2049 would have been done at the Oscars. It now lives on to compete with Roger Deakins potentially winning his richly deserved first Oscar. The Awards Best…

  • 2017 Precursor Predictions: Motion Picture Sound Editors

    The Motion Picture Sound Editors, those fine folk who contribute to the Best Sound Editing (formerly Best Sound Effects Editing) Oscar will reveal their winners on Sunday. With seven categories, it’s hard to be certain which will most reflect thoughts of Oscar voters, there are really only two categories that typically correlate: Sound Effects and…

  • 90th Oscars: Presenters, Group 1

    The Academy has announced its first batch of presenters. They are set out in the press release below. Included in the list are last year’s Best Supporting Actor (Mahershala Ali), last year’s Best Supporting Actress (Viola Davis), and last year’s Best Actress (Emma Stone). It has already been announced that Casey Affleck will not return…

  • 2017 Precursor Predictions: British Academy

    Once upon a time, the British Academy of Film & Television Arts gave out their awards after the Oscars, making them mostly an afterthought and, in some situations, a copycat. Then they shifted to before the Oscars and since then, they have become a major bellwether. What we are looking for here is not for…

  • 2017 Precursor Predictions: American Society of Cinematographers

    Although the Best Cinematography Oscar is directly tied to the American Society of Cinematographers’ award for the same category, they have disagreed so often that you cannot count on the ASC to give a truly accurate picture of where Academy voters might head. After all, only ASC members vote here, but at the Oscars, non-cinematographers…

  • The Rundown 2017: Supporting Actress

    For our twelfth Rundown article, the most able assistance any category could have. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Supporting Actress as well as general commentary about the race. Next week, we’ll start off on Monday with an acting category where once a Best Picture win most frequently required…

  • The Rundown 2017: Adapted Screenplay

    For our eleventh Rundown article, we’ll examine the most derivative category. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Adapted Screenplay as well as general commentary about the race. Friday, we’ll cover an acting category that counts among its winners, the fewest from corresponding Best Picture winners.

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