Category: Predictions
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7 Days to Oscar Morning: Day 2
We’re taking a look today at the screenwriting awards (Adapted Screenplay & Original Screenplay) plus the races for Makeup and Visual Effects. This is our second day of seven covering all the categories leading up to the 82nd nominations on Tuesday morning, February 2, 2010. Tomorrow, the Best Director category gets a work out along…
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7 Days to Oscar Morning: Day 1
Today, we begin our look at the Oscar Nominations race that will be winding down this week as the Academy prepares to announce its 82nd Annual Oscar nominations on Tuesday morning, February 2, 2010. We will be looking at a handful of categories each day and our contributors will be sharing their thoughts on the…
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Coming Soon: 7 Days to Oscar Morning
In just over a week (February 2, 2010), the Academy will announce its nominees for Best Picture of the year. To celebrate this event, and to present our contributors’ predictions, we have split them across the seven days prior to the event. We will present our predictions for every category we can, so stay tuned…
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Precursor Predictions: SAG, CDG & PGA
(UPDATED: 1/22/10, 4:16p CST) This is a fairly big weekend for Oscar prognosticators. Not only do the nominations polls for the Academy Awards close on Saturday, but the Costume Designers Guild announces its nominations and the Screen Actors Guild Awards are presented live on TNT (I will be posting live updates tomorrow night as well).…
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Box-Office Preview #3: Weekend of January 22-24, 2010
Heading into the weekend, Avatar will attempt to become the first film since Titanic to remain at the top of the box-office for six consecutive weekends. Facing soft competition from three new releases, it should not be too difficult a task for it to manage. The toughest competition that Avatar will face this weekend will…
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Precursor Predictions: Sound Editors Guild
Their awards are called the Golden Reel Awards and they give out trophies in several categories. Although some of them could influence the Sound Editing category at the Academy Awards, the one that sends the most nominees through is the Sound Effects/Foley category. Animated films and foreign-financed films are not eligible for this category as…
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Precursor Predictions: BAFTA & CAS Nominations
UPDATED (Wes’ CAS predictions posted): Tomorrow, both the British Academy of Film & Television Arts and the Cinema Audio Society will announce their nominations. Below are our predictions about who will be nominated. We’ll start off with the smaller group, the Cinema Audio Society, which awards a trophy for Best Sound, equivalent to the Academy’s…
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Precursor Predictions: Golden Globes
Sunday, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association will hand out its Golden Globe Awards. Below are our predictions, starting with a by-category look, then individual agreements/disagreements and commentary. And we’ve also predicted both Film and Television nominations, so you can follow along all night if you like. In addition, below all of these predictions, we have…
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Box-Office Preview #2: Weekend of January 15-18, 2010
As we move into the first four-day holiday weekend of the New Year, two new movies and one Oscar hopeful going into wide release will try to suck away audiences from James Cameron’s mega-hit, Avatar. Sadly for them, they will all probably come up short. The film that has the best shot at dethroning Avatar…
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Precursor Predictions: Broadcast Film Critics Association
The Broadcast Film Critics Association will announce the winners of its Critics’ Choice Awards on Friday evening. Here are our predictions for tomorrow night’s winners. Because the complexity of the predictions below, I’ll list our predictions by category and then how we each came down on them. The Predictions Picture: Avatar (2); The Hurt Locker…
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Precursor Predictions: American Cinema Editors
Tomorrow, the ACE announce their nominees for Drama and Comedy Editing. Below are our predictions. Drama Editing common predictions Avatar District 9 The Hurt Locker Inglourious Basterds predicted by 2 Precious (Wesley, Tripp) individual predictions Moon (Peter) Star Trek (Wes)
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Precursor Predictions: ASC & WGA Nominations
Tomorrow, the American Society of Cinematographers and the Writers Guild of America announce their nominees for the 2009 awards season. Your faithful contributors here have put their vast knowledge together and come up with their predictions for this year’s nominees. Here are our choices. American Society of Cinematographers common predictions The Hurt Locker Inglourious Basterds…
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Precursor Predictions: Art Directors Guild Nominations
Tomorrow, the Art Directors Guild announces it’s 2009 nominations. We don’t have any specific commentary to go with our predictions, so here is our list: Period Art Direction common predictions Inglourious Basterds Nine predicted by 3 Sherlock Holmes (Wesley, Tripp, Wes) predicted by 2 Bright Star (Peter, Wesley) A Single Man (Peter, Tripp) The Young…
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Box-Office Preview #1: Weekend of January 8-10, 2010
And so begins a new decade of film with the first three new releases of the 2010s: Daybreakers, Leap Year, and Youth in Revolt. Unfortunately, not one of them will be the first release of the new decade to reach the top spot at the box-office. In its first non-holiday weekend, James Cameron’s science fiction…
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Precursor Predictions: Directors Guild of America Nominations
Tomorrow, the nominees for the Directors Guild of America awards will be announced. We took a poll of contributors and here are the results and our thoughts on them. First, we’ll list the films we 100% agreed on. Then we’ll list the ones we didn’t. Best Director @ The DGA Full Agreement Kathryn Bigelow –…
