Category: Predictions

For our eighth Rundown article, we’ll take a glimpse at the category where everything comes together in the end. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Film Editing as well as general commentary about the race. Thursday, we’ll cover a category where the overall look of the film is decided.

For our seventh Rundown article, we tackle films that have short runtimes. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Animated Short Film & Best Live Action Short Film as well as general commentary about the race. Wednesday, we’ll cover a category where putting it together is the motto.

For our sixth Rundown article, we look at the supporting ladies. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Supporting Actress as well as general commentary about the race. Tuesday, we’ll cover the shortest films to compete at the Oscars.

Although this guild only has influence on the eventual Oscar winner, a surprise win or a convincing one could point towards a Best Picture trend. ART DIRECTORS GUILD AWARDS Best Period Art Direction The Ballad of Buster Scruggs Bohemian Rhapsody The Favourite (Wesley, Peter, Tripp, Thomas) First Man (RU:Peter, RU:Tripp, RU:Thomas) Roma (RU:Wesley) Wesley Lovell:…

This award is already a big deal as the winner almost always wins the Oscar, but also for what it says about Best Picture. This year it could be even more important as Best Directing seems solid at the Oscars, but Best Picture is incredibly amorphous. If we get a surprise here, we may just…

Animation’s big night, the Annie Awards are always a good time to watch as they stream online and there are no shortage of gaffes, though the last couple of years has been a bit less interesting than previously, it’s nice to see an awards program that doesn’t live or die by the ratings. ANNIE AWARDS…

For our fifth Rundown article, a category that honors male actors in non-leading roles. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Supporting Actor as well as general commentary about the race. Next week, we’ll start off on Monday with a category that would be considered this one’s counterpart.

Breaking themselves out into drama and comedy categories, the American Cinema Editors do better at predicting the Oscars because they have two chances, not just one. That said, even if one of these winners doesn’t win the Film Editing award at the Oscars, it could be an indication of which direction voters are looking towards…

For our fourth Rundown article, we look at a category that has had many winners and not a single one of them have been from the United States. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Foreign Language Film as well as general commentary about the race. Friday, we’ll cover the…

For our third Rundown article, we look at a category with an uneven history with myriad rule changes that have impacted the quantity of nominees for individual films. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Original Song as well as general commentary about the race. Thursday, we’ll cover a category…

For our second Rundown article, we look at a category that has been integral to film since the dawn of sound. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Original Score as well as general commentary about the race. Wednesday, we’ll cover a musical counterpart.

For our first Rundown article this year, we look at the categories that are based entirely in fact. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Documentary Feature and Documentary Short Subject as well as general commentary about the race. Tuesday, we’ll cover a category that can help set the mood,…

With nary a consensus heading into Oscar voting, it will be interesting to see what SAG voters pick since actors makeup the largest portion of the Academy’s membership. Of course SAG also has AFTRA mixed in, which means a lot of television voters. While the massive SAG-AFTRA organization dwarfs the Academy, there’s no question there’s…

After a rather unusual nominations announcement this morning, our contributors have come together to put out this first post-nominations predictions set. We have very little agreement here and that’s interesting. As to how we performed on the nominations, here are our results. Thomas La Tourrette topped the list with 95 correct predictions. Wesley Lovell came…

FOR AN OSCAR MORNING TRACKING SHEET, CLICK HERE. My predictions are in BOLD. It’s hard to know precisely how the Academy will handle this year’s announcements. We have the list of categories that will be announced in which grouping, we have where they will be announcing the nominations, and we have who will be announcing.…