Category: Predictions

  • 84th Predictions: Final Nominations Predictions

    The time for hemming, hawing and vacillating is complete. Tomorrow, the nominations for the 84th Academy Awards will be revealed. Without much time left, we’re giving to you our final predictions for this years awards. It’s interesting to see all the differences between our predictions over the past several months begin to coalesce into a…

  • Precursor Predictions: Producers Guild of America (2011)

    Saturday evening, the Producers Guild of America kick off the Guild Awards season with the first awards presentation. While they have a checkered past, there’s no denying they have a strong history of decent predictive capabilities. Here are our fearless predictions on who we think will take home the awards. (NOTE: Normally, I post my…

  • 84th Predictions: January

    From now until the Oscar nominations, we’ll be bringing you periodic updates to our personal predictions for this year’s Oscar nominations (and after that our predictions for the winners). Today, after a series of guild nomination announcements and before we head into the first major awards-giving ceremonies of the year (Broadcast Critics tonight, Thursday, and…

  • 84th Predictions: Post-SAG/Globe Nominations

    From this point until the end of the year, we’ll be taking Guild nominations announcements as impetus to dive into our own predictions. This past week, the Screen Actors Guild announced their nominees for the best performances of 2011. based on this new information, we’re updating our Oscar predictions. The two paragraphs after this discuss…

  • 84th Predictions: November

    Every month, we’re posting our predictions for the 84th Oscars. It’s now November and the picture is beginning to clear up, though there are many more surprises still in store. No one knows what’s going to happen between now and Nominations morning, so let’s just get ready to have some fun in the meantime. We…

  • 84th Predictions: September

    Every month until Oscar season and then regularly after that, we’ll be posting our predictions for the 84th Oscars. Of course, this is still September, so take the predictions with a grain of salt. No one knows what’s going to happen between now and Nominations morning, so let’s just get ready to have some fun…

  • 84th Predictions: August

    Every month until Oscar season and then regularly after that, we’ll be posting our predictions for the 84th Oscars. Our last update was back in May, so there have been a few changes. Of course, this is still August, so take the predictions with a grain of salt. No one knows what’s going to happen…

  • 85th Oscars: Makeup and Costume Design Locked In?

    If you live under a rock, or in a Hobbit hole, you may not have heard that there’s a new pair of films set in Middle Earth coming to theaters in 2012 & 2013. The troubled production finally got started under four-time Oscar winner Peter Jackson as director and we’ve been getting snippets of production…

  • What Did Cannes Teach Us About the Oscar Race?

    The Cannes Film Festival is the first major event of every film season. It is the time when several films that will be vying for the Oscar next year are first shown, when the film studios are busy looking at projects to distribute both in America and internationally and a time for the brightest and…

  • 84th Predictions: The First

    Every year, sometime in the month of May, I traditionally post my first Oscar Hopefuls list for the new year. It may not be very accurate some 8 months out, but it’s great fun to speculate. Last year, I had all my contributors submit their picks as well and proceeded to update once a month…

  • Precursor Predictions: Spirit Awards & Razzies

    With the Academy Awards Sunday and no guilds left in sight, all that remains are the traditional pre-Oscars awards shows. Both go the night before the Oscars (Saturday) and neither is a terrific Oscar barometer. One is the Spirit Awards, run by Film Independent, a gala for low-budget films that doesn’t generally match up very…

  • Predictions: 83rd Annual Oscars – Final

    And so Oscar prognostication season has come to a close. Now that the Oscars are only two days away, it’s time to put to bed our final predictions. While some categories were really tough to make choices in, others were incredibly easy. We only agreed on 9 categories: Animated Feature, Actor, Supporting Actor, Adapted Screenplay,…

  • The Rundown: Best Picture

    And here we have our final category: Best Picture. We always save this one for last even if it is the most predictable category of the night. Sure, we all hope for upsets, but we don’t expect them. Later today, we’ll recap our predictions and update to our final predictions.

  • The Rundown: Best Director

    Often considered the second-most important category of the night, the Best Director prize frequently goes to the Best Picture winner, but will that tried and true formula work this year?

  • The Rundown: Costume Design

    We’re nearly at the end of this year’s Oscar journey. Today, we cover the final tech category from the last guild to announce its winners.

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