Category: Predictions

For our seventh Rundown article, we look at a category that frequently goes along with Best Picture. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Director as well as general commentary about the race. Tuesday, we’ll cover two very visual aspects of film.

They aren’t a perfectly-matched group, but the Motion Picture Sound Editors Golden Reel Awards are a interesting look at how sound editors feel about the works nominated for the Oscars and their decisions may signal interesting results on Oscar night. These awards will be given out Sunday evening. Below are our predictions and some commentary…

For our sixth Rundown article, we look at the supporting men. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Supporting Actor as well as general commentary about the race. Next week, we’ll start off on Monday with a category that seems like a foregone conclusion, but could generate some fascinating results…

Outside of the guilds, the BAFTAs are the most like the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. That’s because BAFTA is the British equivalent, containing various members of the cinematic community. Yet, until the guild moved its awards to before the Oscars, the BAFTA often went different, and often strange, directions. Since then, they’ve…

For our fifth Rundown article, we look at the supporting women. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Supporting Actress as well as general commentary about the race. Tomorrow, we’ll cover the men.

For our fourth Rundown article, we look at the artificial environments and characters that entertained adults and children this year. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Animated Feature as well as general commentary about the race. Tomorrow, we’ll cover one of the year’s supporting categories.

For our third Rundown article, we examine the shortest movies in the competition. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Animated Short Film & Best Live-Action Short Film as well as general commentary about the race. Tomorrow, we’ll cover a category featuring artificial characters and environments.

The Visual Effects Society represents visual effects designers and is essentially the guild for those artists. As such, we look to them to give us a hint of what could show up on Oscar nomination day and they have a pretty solid track record predicting Visual Effects at the Oscars. This year, however, will probably…

For our second Rundown article, we look at the films that received only one Oscar nomination overall. 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 two categories where feature length isn’t an option.

For our first Rundown article, we’re going to start with the music categories, one of the few sets of categories that don’t have much in the way of precursor attention and no active guild participation. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Original Score and Best Original Song as well…

The Art Directors Guild represent the production designers and costume designers that make the sets and overall artistic designs of motion pictures pop. If you love the location, the decor or anything about the visual look of a film, you can probably thank an Art Director. They don’t have a spotless history predicting the Oscars,…

The Best Editing category at the Oscars is one of the most prescient categories currently in existence. It’s been more accurate than Best Director and that’s saying something. While a win isn’t necessary, films that are on the bubble can get a great boost from it. The American Cinema Editors is the guild representing the…

There are three precursors announcing prizes the same night (Saturday). One of them, the Annie Awards, will be live streamed (At least, it should be. I haven’t checked, but it has been in the past.) Since the Annies are quite a bit more difficult to predict since they sometimes feel so whim-intensive, none of our…

The DGA has been an accurate predictor of the Best Director winner at the Oscars in nearly every year they’ve existed. Discounting the unaligned eligibility periods of the first two years, the DGA has failed to predict Oscar in only seven contests: 1968, 1972, 1985, 1995, 2000, 2002, 2012. In three of those years (1985,…

Somehow I managed to forget to post this Friday when I had intended as opposed to today when I hadn’t intended. I haven’t changed any predictions, so the SAG and PGA victories over the weekend would not have impacted the below predictions. After the DGA, we’ll consider revising. Then, in February, we’ll start our annual…