Category: Predictions

Only one of the twelve categories presented by the Visual Effects Society will have any bearing on Oscar, but the strength of a film’s performance here often indicates the strength of its chances with Oscar. The VES will present its awards on tonight (Tuesday), though I probably won’t get the results until tomorrow morning.

For our third Rundown article, two short film categories where fiction reigns. 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. Tomorrow, we’ll cover the youngest Oscar category.

For our second Rundown article, we’ll look at a category where four features attempt to defeat a Best Picture 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. Tomorrow, we’ll cover the two short film fiction categories.

The weekend brings us three precursors. One is of significant importance. The DGA award is typically the most reliable precursor out there and whomever wins may have a bigger impact on the Best Picture race than the Best Director race with only two of the DGA nominees also securing Oscar nods in the same category.…

For our first Rundown article, we’re starting off with the only major category that has no guild to offer up as a precursor. 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. Next week, we’ll start off on…

This weekend, two of the most prominent guilds will be announcing their awards. The Producers Guild of America will be hosting a private ceremony Saturday evening to give out its tokens. The Screen Actors Guild will broadcast its annual awards live on Sunday evening. We’ll start things off with the Producers Guild of America, which…

Now that the Oscar nominations have come out, it’s time for us to look back at our immediate reaction on who will win the Oscars this year. Being our first predictions, a lot may change as the season progresses, but for right now, considering prevailing winds, this is what we’re thinking. We didn’t agree on…

It’s really hard to believe that we’re already a day away from the Oscar nominations. Pushing the timeframe up has made few of us excited. It simply backs us up on how much time we have to finish things. Anyway, we’ve put together our final predictions (at least until the remaining precursors that announce today…

Now that the vast majority of critics groups have announced their nominees and before all but the Screen Actors Guild announce theirs, we thought it would be a good time to update our Oscar Predictions. The nominations for the Academy Awards will be announced next Thursday, so we’ll post our final predictions in ALL categories…

With the precursors starting up very soon (tomorrow, in fact), it’s time we went on record before they do to show where we think the race is currently. Although we have many similar predictions, it’s the diversity that shows us what kind of race we’re looking at. When something’s obvious, we agree all three, but…

Now that the Toronto International Film Festival is over, the Oscar race is in full swing. Many of the year’s highest profile releases have finally seen the light of day and now we’ll be able to begin forming stronger predictions. While we still caution that predictions this early aren’t very accurate, please feel free to…

The Oscar season is coming up quickly and although August is still a bit early to make definitive predictions, looking to last year’s lists might give us an idea of how close consensus choices come to making the grade. First, let it be known that I polled our site contributors in July for this data,…

It’s May! It’s May! The lusty month of May! Where our every thought turns towards the next year’s Oscar Day! As is tradition on this site, every May, we put together our initial predictions for what films and performances will make an impact on the coming year’s Oscar races. Of course, this early, nothing is…

They are always one of the first to announce nominees and the last to give out awards. The Spirit Awards have had more in common with the Oscars in the last decade than the prior, yet their choices don’t match up with too great a frequency. More often than not, the Spirit Awards choose the…