Category: Predictions

Several BAFTA winners have turned the Oscar conversation in new directions or confirmed prevailing sentiments. With its current pre-Oscar position, it’s become an even more important bellwether. What happens here could send ripples through the blogosphere.

For our seventh Rundown article, we look at the non-fiction categories. 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. Monday, we’ll cover a category that will be effected by this weekend’s big guild announcement.

The big one. There are few precursors with more clout or prognosticative capabilities than the DGA. Look to this to tell us if Boyhood peaked early or if it’s in it to win it. DIRECTORS GUILD OF AMERICA AWARDS Best Director Wes Anderson – The Grand Budapest Hotel Clint Eastwood – American Sniper Alejandro G.…

For our sixth Rundown article, we look at one of the year’s most controversial categories because of the big omission no one had expected. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Animated Feature as well as general commentary about the race. Friday, we’ll cover the only categories where real life…

For our fifth Rundown article, we look at two categories that may be short in length, but can be mighty in impact. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Animated Short Film and Best Live-Action Short Film as well as general commentary about the race. Thursday, we’ll cover one of…

At the beginning of the season, Interstellar seemed like a slam-dunk winner. Nowadays, that thought isn’t as prevalent.

For our fourth Rundown article, we look at the most secure category at the Oscars this year. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Supporting Actor as well as general commentary about the race. Wednesday, we’ll look at two of the smaller categories, not just by familiarity, but by length.

For our third Rundown article, we examine one of the seemingly pre-set categories for this year’s Oscars. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Supporting Actress as well as general commentary about the race. Tueday, we’ll cover another foregone concluion.

The USC Scripter Awards are given out by the University of Southern California Libraries as a fundraiser of sorts. They are shown live on the internet every year and are often a bit more entertaining and engaging than some televised awards shows. The award goes to the author of the original work and the screenwriter…

The Art Directors Guild presents the best in production design in three categories covering period films, sci-fi and fantasy films and contemporary-set films. The period award is the most closely aligned with the Oscars.

The Annie Awards are the premier organization honoring animation. They have a number of categories the Oscars don’t have (naturally) and they present them in an annual webcast presentation that has some funny moments, but is generally more weakly produced than their televised rivals. Thomas and I both made prediction in all categories, but we…

For our second Rundown article, we look at a category that ended up competitive in a completely different way than we imagined. 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. Next week, we’ll start off on Monday with a category…

The American Cinema Editors are one of the oldest guilds in existence, at least in terms of which guilds give out awards. As such, they are a crucial forecaster of the Best Editing Oscar and can also give hints as to what films might just carry over to Best Picture wins.

For our first Rundown article, we are looking at the music categories. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Original Score and Best Original Song as well as general commentary about the race. Friday, we’ll cover the first category where a major upset left one of the key competitors off…

This weekend, two of the biggest guild precursors bring us our last real chances at upset victories. Looking over our predictions, there seems to be a lot of variance in many places, suggesting that no one is precisely certain how these sometimes-persnickety groups will vote. We still try to take a stab at it. The…