Category: Predictions

Four contributors. Four different predictions to win. The only candidate that has a majority support is Mad Max: Fury Road with one winner projection and two runner-up predictions. Clearly this is anyone’s race and might be the best hint at what might be coming up from Oscar.

For our fifth Rundown article, we look at one of the most creative categories at the Oscars. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Visual Effects as well as general commentary about the race. Next week, we’ll start off on Monday with a category that represents one of the year’s…

For our fourth Rundown article, the truth comes out. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Documentary Feature as well as general commentary about the race. Friday, we’ll cover the category that creates something from nothing.

For our third Rundown article, we take a look at how the Academy recognizes those who construct their favorite films. 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 the big non-fiction category.

It’s a tight competition and even our contributors can’t unify on any of the selections, splitting most of their votes. We only required commentary on the top two categories.

For our second Rundown article, we examine two categories dealing with short films. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Documentary Short Subject and Best Live-Action Short Film as well as general commentary about the race. Wednesday, we’ll cover the category recognizing those who put everything together.

For our first Rundown article, we look one of the few categories that have no precursor directly associated with it. 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. Tuesday, we’ll cover two categories associated with short-form entertainment and education.

The Screen Actors Guild Awards are this weekend and either they’ll complicate the Best Picture and acting races or they’ll solidify support behind a particular title. That’s what we’re going to be looking for in the winners this weekend. It’s the second of the most influential guild awards to announce, so it may give us…

With a race as volatile as this one, anything could win. Even our contributors can’t seem to unite on a single film. The closest is The Danish Girl, the only film to pick up first place and runner-up votes from everyone. Yet, with no more than two of us agreeing on any one production, it…

Except in one category, our contributors are unified in their predictions. That lone hold out is Peter, who doesn’t believe the editors will go for Mad Max: Fury Road. Our runner-up selections are much more interesting as they are largely split in many places. As a forecaster of the Best Editing award at the Oscars,…

The Producers Guild of America is the only set of awards chosen entirely by producers. Typically, they have different goals when choosing films, success among them. However, they do try their best to forecast the Oscars and will often go for an acclaimed film even if it wasn’t a box office behemoth. Here are our…

We asked out contributors for their thoughts on this year’s Oscar nominations. Their responses run the gamut from predictions to opinions on the nominees to hopes for victors. We put no actual requirement on their thoughts and that variance makes for interesting reading. WESLEY LOVELL I put most of my thoughts together regarding the nominations…

Sunday night, the second of the televised precursors broadcasts and this time, it’s a group of critics very used to appearing on screen and in a broadcast medium (loosely defined). We put together our lists a little late, so we don’t have any commentary for this one. Suffice it to say, we all expect that…

Now that the nominations have been announced, we are able to take our first look at the current state of the Oscar race. We’ll present our current winner predictions and our runner-up predictions, those we think could upset if there is to be one. Looking over our initial lists, it’s clear that many races aren’t…

Now that the Oscar nominations have been revealed, we can discuss what was nominated, what wasn’t and what it all means. Based on my initial predictions, I’m going to go through each category and give you what I predicted correctly, what I didn’t and how I feel about it. I’m only covering 21 of the…