Category: Predictions
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2016 Precursor Predictions: Annie Awards
While all eyes will be on the Directors Guild of America tomorrow night, I’ll be gladly checking out the ceremony for the Annie Awards. One of the brightest spots of the Oscar season, their livestreamed awards are often funny and quite engaging. You won’t find great production values, but being entertained is often more important.…
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2016 Precursor Predictions: Directors Guild of America
The big guild announcement this weekend will be the Directors Guild of America. One of the most accurate Oscar barometers out there, the winner here is almost guaranteed the Best Director Oscar and his film is likely to also be the Best Picture winner, that’s how often this group aligns with the Academy.
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The Rundown 2016: Best Supporting Actor
For our third Rundown article, we take a glimpse into the competition for one of the four acting categories. 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 goes great with…
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The Rundown 2016: Best Original Song
For our second Rundown article, we examine one of the individual components of a score. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Original Song as well as general commentary about the race. Friday, we’ll cover a category where male individuals bolster their leading counterparts.
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The Rundown 2016: Best Original Score
For our first Rundown article, we look at the musical category that defines the overall tone of a film. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Original Score as well as general commentary about the race. Thursday, we’ll cover a companion category that is a part of the whole.
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2016 Precursor Predictions: Screen Actors Guild & Producers Guild
Two of the biggest guild precursors announce this weekend. One will be at a private dinner on Saturday night and the other will be a glitzy telecast on Sunday evening. The Screen Actors Guild is voted on by members of the acting community, both those working in television and in film. The Producers Guild of…
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2016 Precursor Predictions: American Cinema Editors
The first Guild to announce its winners this year will be the American Cinema Editors who announce their selections on Saturday night. One of the best categories to use to predict the Oscar for Best Picture, Best Editing is one of the first places we look and the Best Picture frontrunner is the one we…
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2016 Oscar Winner Predictions: First Post-Nominations Predictions
Our first look at the Oscar landscape after the nominations has revealed itself in our first predictions of this year’s winners. I had intended to post this article last night, but somehow it missed the scheduling. Below you will find our first predictions. We have 100% agreed in 13 of 24 categories and selected identical…
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Oscar Morning: The Article (2016)
FOR AN OSCAR MORNING TRACKING SHEET, CLICK HERE. My predictions are in BOLD. After two years of a new format of announcing the nominations, the Academy has mixed things up again with an audience-free streaming announcement starting at 5:18am Pacific on Tuesday, January 24. Academy president Cheryl Boone-Isaacs will be joined by Oscar winners Jennifer…
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2016 Oscar Nominations Predictions: Final
And here we have it, our final predictions before the Oscar nominations tomorrow morning. Our contributors have put a lot of time and effort into their selections and their commentary. Looking over our lists, it’s notable to see that we share 9 films in common in the Best Picture race while nearly all of the…
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2016 Precursor Predictions: Golden Globe Awards
This Sunday, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) will present its annual Golden Globe Awards, one of the oldest awards giving bodies out there, their selections will give us hints towards what Oscar might be contemplating or should be contemplating. We’ve taken a look at the precursors and the nominations for the Golden Globe awards…
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2016 Oscar Nominations Predictions: December
Now that the great majority of critics have had their say and most of the guilds haven’t, we thought we’d put together one final list for 2016. Below are our predictions in eleven categories. A lot has changed, but a lot has stayed the same. Things are starting to coalesce around 60%-80% of the potential…
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Precursors: Last-Minute Broadcast Critics Predictions
Because the Broadcast Film Critics Association, under the trademarked name “Critics’ Choice,” has decided to host their event so early this year, I didn’t have enough time to scramble together our customary predictions thread. However, I still wanted to post my last-minute predictions for tonight’s ceremony. I’ve advised my contributors that they can add their…
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2016 Oscar Nominations Predictions: November (Pre-Precursors)
There are only a few more unseen films left to consider, The Founder (has been seen, but not widely discussed), Miss Sloane (has been seen, but not widely discussed), and Silence (hasn’t been seen yet). That doesn’t mean there aren’t other films that haven’t had much coverage that could be players, but these are three…
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2016 Oscar Nominations Predictions: Post-Festival
We had hoped to put together a list prior to the Telluride/Venice/Toronto festival lineup, but various factors got in the way and we missed our opportunity. Now that a number of the year’s potential Oscar contenders have been screened in at least one of these festivals, the year-end competition is beginning to take place. When…
