Category: Predictions

For our seventeenth Rundown article, we review an inventive category where something is created where nothing existed before. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Visual Effects as well as general commentary about the race. Wednesday, we’ll cover categories whose innovation existed in its infancy when the Academy was founded.

The Costume Designers Guild has three chances to predict the Oscars, though you really only need to look at two of them as the winners for Period and Fantasy Costume Design each have a historical potential of winning. COSTUME DESIGNERS GUILD AWARDS Best Period Costume Design BlacKkKlansman Bohemian Rhapsody (RU:Peter) The Favourite (Wesley, Peter, Tripp,…

For our sixteenth Rundown article, we glimpse at the foundation of all movies. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay as well as general commentary about the race. Tuesday, we’ll cover the most inventive of categories, creating something where nothing exists.

A solid predictor of the Sound Mixing Oscar winner, their choice will definitely get a boost going into Oscar night. CINEMA AUDIO SOCIETY AWARDS Best Sound Mixing – Live Action Black Panther (Peter) Bohemian Rhapsody (Wesley, RU:Tripp, RU:Thomas) First Man A Quiet Place (Tripp, RU:Wesley, RU:Peter) A Star Is Born (Thomas) Wesley Lovell: If they…

The Hollywood Make-Up and Hair-Stylists Guild is one of the newest groups handing out awards and they haven’t been able to generate any kind of pattern in terms of their predictability. Having five categories that could match might help a little. MAKE-UP ARTISTS & HAIR STYLISTS GUILD AWARDS Best Period and/or Character Make-up Bohemian Rhapsody…

The Motion Picture Sound Editors Golden Reel Awards have bountiful nominations and before the expansion to five nominees at the Oscars, weren’t particularly instructive. Now, they have a bit more influence and a bit more cross-over. MOTION PICTURE SOUND EDITORS AWARDS Best Sound Editing: Sound Effects and Foley in a Feature Film Avengers: Infinity War…

The Writers Guild of America, because of their notoriously stringent nominations guidelines (non-guild signatories are completely ineligible, so foreign films, animated films, and smaller independents tend to be out of their race). This has created some suspense going into Oscar night as some of the Oscar frontrunners (like The Favourite this year) weren’t eligible to…

For our fifteenth Rundown article, the person most responsible for bringing all of the parts together. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Directing as well as general commentary about the race. Next week, we’ll start off on Monday with a category that quite possibly is the first building block…

For our fourteenth Rundown article, a category where putting on disguises is the name of the game. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Makeup & Hairstyling as well as general commentary about the race. ///Next week, we’ll start off on Monday with a category Friday, we’ll cover the person…

For our thirteenth Rundown article, the best feature of the year that isn’t live-action. 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 cover a category where making someone look like someone else is the key.

For our twelfth Rundown article, we look at a category that people wrongly look at as the most visually stunning and should look at for its overall shot composition. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Cinematography as well as general commentary about the race. ///Next week, we’ll start off…

For our eleventh Rundown article, we look at the men who lead casts. 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’s all about shot composition (though that’s not what people judge it based on).

Although numerous nations have their own national awards, few of those organizations have as much overlap between them and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences as the British Academy of Film & Television Arts. In the past, they gave out their prizes after the Oscars, but now they hand them out before and…

One of the best forecasters for the corresponding category at the Oscars, look for them to give a nudge to one of these contenders going into the Oscars. AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CINEMATOGRAPHERS AWARDS Best Cinematography Cold War (RU:Wesley, RU:Peter) The Favourite (RU:Thomas) First Man Roma (Wesley, Peter, Tripp, Thomas) A Star Is Born (RU:Tripp) Wesley…

They are one of the best predictors of the Oscars out there and what they pick could carry over to the Oscars. Look for their winner to possibly carry over to the Oscars, though BlacKkKlansman and A Star Is Born weren’t nominated here, so that might be the only fly in the ointment. USC SCRIPTER…