Category: AL Predictions

Although many races are very difficult to call, we have a surprising number of identical predictions and several that are close to identical. Best Animated Feature, Actor, Adapted Screenplay, and Production Design seem to be locked according to our prognosticators. The ones that are pretty close to locked are: Best Directing, Actress, Original Screenplay, Original…

Tomorrow morning, the nominations for the 96th Academy Awards will be announced. They’ll be revealed by Bottoms star Rachel Sennott and SNL alum and Wicked supporting actor Bowen Yang. Before the nominations are announced, I wanted to put down in writing my thoughts on this year’s categories and how I came to my choices for…

With many precursors announced (only one industry one, the editors) and the shortlists recently revealed, these are closing in on our final predictions. Please note that due to time constraints with the shortlists releasing yesterday afternoon, the precursors and changes pages of the website have not been updated but may be completed later today. For…

Our final predictions for the preponderance of critics announce their nominees. We’ve seen a lot of changes and while there seems to be some coalescence among us, there are some categories we’re still very far apart on. Our next predictions will be releasing just after the shortlists are announced so we may be a bit…

We’re entering the lean times between the biggest fall festivals and the final year-end critics prizes. October and November are typically a little quiet and allow for a little re-attunement. As such, here are our October predictions. KEY: Appears on Three Lists Appears on Two Lists Appears on One Lists Wesley Lovell Peter Patrick Thomas…

The last of the major festivals, and perhaps the three most important, have come and gone. It’s about that time of year when we start seeing the patterns fully emerge but we still have time before the critics awards start solidifying everything. KEY: Appears on Three Lists Appears on Two Lists Appears on One Lists…

One last update before the fall festivals with some categories seeing minimal changes while others find themselves radically different. We’ve added Original Score and Makeup & Hairstyling predictions to this list with Production Design and Costume Design coming in September and the remaining categories waiting until shortlists are revealed late this year. KEY: Appears on…

In the middle of July, it’s difficult to say what will ultimate wind up with Oscars. That said, a number of contenders have already shown up and some of them have faltered while others emerged that weren’t on the radar previously. Here are our predictions as they stand in the month of July. This month,…

We’re half way through the year and some of us see things as changing rapidly, others see it stagnating with little word about year-end releases. This week, we chose to add Sound and Visual Effects categories; however, Thomas wasn’t able to provide those predictions by publication time. We’ll update as soon as those are in…

Cannes is underway, so things are still in flux as a result. However, we’ve got a few prediction updates ourselves. KEY: Appears on Four Lists Appears on Three Lists Appears on Two Lists Appears on One Lists Wesley Lovell Peter Patrick Tripp Burton Thomas LaTourrette Introductions Wesley Lovell: Not a lot of changes as yet.…

We start our predictions for the 97th Oscars here. Let’s see where things go. KEY: Appears on Four Lists Appears on Three Lists Appears on Two Lists Appears on One Lists Wesley Lovell Peter Patrick Tripp Burton Thomas LaTourrette Introductions Wesley Lovell: Beginning things with a surprisingly tumultuous list. There aren’t a lot of films…

And with that, our coverage of the 96th Academy Awards comes to a near close. Beyond this, we’ll have a post for each category as it’s announced and then our post-awards commentary on Monday and/or Tuesday. Till then, here are our final predictions for the Oscars for the films of 2023. KEY: Appears on Four…

Last year’s Oscar season was compressed into the last few weeks. This year’s was compressed similarly with more of the major precursors coming out earlier in the season making it feel like a more measured pace. It was no less busy, especially this past weekend with so many groups announcing, but it certainly seemed to…