Category: Predictions

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…

While we’re quite a bit delayed from when we had expected to have these posted, here are our first post-Oscar Nominations predictions. We give you a primary choice and a runner-up in each category. We did not share commentary this time as we’ll get deeply into that with our annual Rundown series, which begins next…

I made prediction changes up until late in the day on Wednesday evening. Now it’s time to take a look at how I did overall with some commentary about the races as they turned out. Within the last week, I made a number of changes, some of those weren’t very fruitful (eliminating Robert Duvall from…

Our contributors each put forward a list of predictions for the Oscars. Here’s how we did. Please note that I (Wesley Lovell) made changes to my final predictions after this went live, so the accuracy here will differ. However, at the time we all put forth our nominations, this is how we saw it. Our…

The Broadcast Critics give out their awards tonight (Thursday). They changed their description a few years back to the Critics’ Choice, though with how many critics there are and how many aren’t in the BFCA, the title is a bit dubious. Either way, I asked our contributors to pick their choices for what the BFCA…

So here we are. Less than 48 hours before the Academy announces all 24 categories live and we find out just how much we knew and didn’t know. Tomorrow morning, I’ll be going live with our annual Oscar Morning feature, which will include run-downs of all the categories that will be announced Thursday morning (and…

The first major precursor telecast of the year is also the last major awards group to announce prior to the Oscar nominations (on Thursday morning). What will be most interesting about the Globes is how they shift the current narrative about the Oscars. While they often jump on bandwagons, they also strike out in different…

Things are starting to settle for this year’s potential Oscar nominees. With the critics groups nearly finished (National Society of Film Critics will be the last of the major elders to announce later this week) and the guilds preparing to announce their nominees (SAG is the only one with a full slate already in circulation),…

At the end of November, the first precursors will start going out. That means Oscar season will be in full swing. As a result, we’re putting together our final pre-precursor predictions below. We’ve also included commentary from each of our contributors. The tough part for us is to build consensus based off buzz for films…

With the summer in hindsight, it’s now time to look at the Oscar season in more detail. What’s come out so far and what’s yet to come. Most of our predictions feature a strong number of late-year releases. The early months didn’t provide many films with strong buzz, leaving the year-end to do the heavy…

In our attempt to update our predictions more frequently throughout the year, we’ve put together our post-Cannes predictions, taking into account what came through Cannes that might have an impact on the year’s Oscar races. Looking through the list, it doesn’t appear to have had much influence on our choices. That said, there were plenty…

As is our tradition here at Cinema Sight, we have put our heads together (separately, of course) and made the absolute earliest predictions we’re ever willing to make. With just over 6 months until the first precursors are announced, we look at where we think the race stands before Cannes has a chance to wow…