Category: Predictions
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Precursor Predictions: CDG
Tonight, the Costume Designers Guild will announce the winners of its three feature film prizes for Period, Fantasy and Contemporary achievements. So, here’s what we expect Costume Designers Guild Period Costume Design The Fighter The King’s Speech (Wesley, Peter) True Grit (RU:Wesley) Wesley Lovell: I can’t imagine them not giving it to The King’s Speech.…
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The Rundown: Best Editing
Today, we present our predictions and commentary on the Best Editing category.
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The Rundown: Sound Mixing/Sound Editing
Today, we start our final week of Rundown articles. This week, we’ll cover the remaining categories for this year’s Oscars starting with today’s look at Sound Mixing and Sound Editing. Tomorrow, we’ll open up about our thoughts on the Best Editing prize. Following on Wednesday, we’ll look at Costume Design, then round out the week…
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Precursor Predictions: CAS, ACE & MPSE
This weekend, three of the last four guilds to announce winners will finally make their picks known. Starting things off on Saturday are the Cinema Audio Society, which honors the best in Sound Mixing, and the American Cinema Editors, which recognize the best in Editing. Following those on Sunday are the awards from the Motion…
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The Rundown: Best Actress
We finish out the week with Best Actress, one of the few categories ripe for upset. Come back next week when we do our final five articles in preparation for this year’s Academy Awards.
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The Rundown: Best Actor
Our penultimate rundown article this week finds us in the final two acting categories. Today, we cover the Best Actor race and will follow it up tomorrow with Best Actress.
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The Rundown: Animated Feature
Our humpday coverage of this year’s Oscar race covers the predictions for Animated Feature, a category where Pixar dominates year-after-year.
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The Rundown: Cinematography
Today’s Rundown article takes a look at the Best Cinematography award, one of the few tech categories where name recognition is a big deal.
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The Rundown: Visual Effects
We start off this week with the newly-fived Best Visual Effects category which we’re agreed will go to Inception. To come this week, we have predictions for Cinematography, Animated Feature, Actor & Actress. Stay tuned. (Update (6:20a CT): added Tripp’s commentary)
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Precursor Predictions: British Academy Awards
Today, we’ll cast our crystal balls at the British Academy Awards and hope they don’t shatter. Here are our predictions for today’s awards. The Awards Best Film Black Swan Inception The King’s Speech (Wesley, RU:Peter) The Social Network (RU:Wesley, Peter) True Grit
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Precursor Predictions: ASC
This weekend gives us two precursors, but only one we’ll be prediction. Both are on Sunday. The one we’re taking some shots at picking winners is the American Society of Cinematographers. The other, the Online Film & Television Association’s Film Awards, is not a group we would feel comfortable prediction. Reason 1) all of the…
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The Rundown: Supporting Actress
We close out the week with one of the more exciting races of the year, the most tense one in the top six. Here are our thoughts on the Supporting Actress race as it stands.
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The Rundown: Supporting Actor
Our penultimate analysis this week, we present our Rundown series article for Supporting Actor, a category that that has honored legendary actors like Thomas Mitchell, Walter Huston, George Sanders, Anthony Quinn, Frank Sinatra, Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Robert De Niro, George Burns, Christopher Walken, John Gielgud, Jack Nicholson, Don Ameche, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Jack…
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The Rundown: Art Direction
In this week’s third Rundown article, we take a look at Art Direction, a category that so frequently favors period dramas that it’s almost become a joke, especially when the best candidate doesn’t win (see Sweeney Todd over There Will Be Blood)
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The Rundown: Original Screenplay
Our second rundown article this week takes us to the final screenwriting category for this year’s Oscars featuring another competition between Best Picture nominees. The general consensus is now that The King’s Speech has become a Best Picture frontrunner, it’s chances in Original Screenplay have improved.
