Category: Predictions
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The Rundown 2016: Film Editing
For our twelfth Rundown article, we take a stab at the category that brings it all together. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Film Editing as well as general commentary about the race. Friday, we’ll cover a category where the person who brings all the disparate parts together is…
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The Rundown 2016: Animated Feature
For our eleventh Rundown article, we look at the newest Oscar category. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Animated Feature as well as general commentary about the race. Thursday, we’ll examine the category that deals with putting all the pieces together.
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The Rundown 2016: Animated Short & Live-Action Short Films
For our tenth Rundown article, we look at two diminutive categories. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Animated Short Film and Live-Action Short Film as well as general commentary about the race. Wednesday, we tackle the newest Oscar category.
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The Rundown 2016: Actress
For our ninth Rundown article, we examine the final acting category. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Actress as well as general commentary about the race. Tuesday, we’ll cover two of the shortest categories available.
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2016 Precursor Predictions: British Academy Awards
Sunday afternoon in London (their evening), the British Academy of Film & Television Arts will reveal the winners of its annual awards. They don’t simulcast their show as they edit the broadcast to fit allotted time, thus we’ll just have to get the winners list from those who are at the ceremony. BRITISH ACADEMY AWARDS…
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2016 Precursor Predictions: Grammy Awards
The Grammy Awards have dozens of categories and all eyes will be on the traditional music prizes, but they also give out awards for visual media. They have four categories, all of which will likely be handed out before the primary show begins. We will find out Sunday night regardless who wins. Here are thoughts…
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2016 Precursor Predictions: USC Scripter
The University of Southern California will reveal its selections for their annual Scripter Award, an prize given to the original author and the screenwriter for a cinematic achievement. Saturday night, they’ll announce their winner at the end of a long dinner and plenty of speechifying. While not as interesting in general as the Annie Awards,…
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2016 Precursor Predictions: Art Directors Guild
The Art Directors Guild has three categories that they’ll reveal at their private ceremony Saturday night. One of the three winners is likely to repeat at the Occars. ART DIRECTORS GUILD AWARDS Best Period Art Direction Cafe Society Fences Hacksaw Ridge (RU:Tripp) Hail, Caesar! (Wesley, Tripp, RU:Thomas) Hidden Figures (Peter, Thomas, RU:Wesley) Jackie (RU:Peter) Wesley…
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The Rundown 2016: Actor
For our eighth Rundown article, we look at the penultimate 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. Next week, we’ll start off on Monday with a category that rounds off our coverage of the acting prizes.
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The Rundown 2016: Foreign Language Film
For our seventh Rundown article, we look at the only category with mandatory subtitles for all the nominee. 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 tackle the penultimate acting category.
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The Rundown 2016: Best Cinematography
For our sixth Rundown article, we take a look through the lens at life. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Cinematography as well as general commentary about the race. Thursday, we’ll cover a category that the vast majority of Academy members will have to read to watch.
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The Rundown 2016: Best Documentary Feature & Short Subject
For our fifth Rundown article, facts make up an important part of these categories. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Documentary Feature and Best Documentary Short Subject as well as general commentary about the race. Wednesday, we’ll cover a category where composition is most important.
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2016 Precursor Predictions: Visual Effects Society
The Visual Effects Society will be announcing its winners this Tuesday evening. They are one of the few groups to present awards on a week night. Comparing to the Best Visual Effects category at the Oscars, the nominees there are spread across multiple categories, so while we can get an idea of which films have…
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The Rundown 2016: Best Supporting Actress
For our fourth Rundown article, we take a look at the second of our four acting categories. 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 truest of all categories at the Oscars.
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2016 Precursor Predictions: American Society of Cinematographers
Saturday evening, all eyes are going to be on the Directors Guild of America. While some will be paying attention to the American Society of Cinematographers, most of those will be Oscar aficionados looking for Oscar hints. Below are our predictions for Saturday’s ASC event.
