Category: Predictions

As is our tradition, May begins our first predictive look at the year’s Oscar hopefuls. A lot of factors will play into how well our guesses hold up. Expect many of them to fall by the wayside as the year progresses and new contenders to rise into their places. Things are still surprisingly murky just…

And here we are at the end of the road. Oscar Season 2017 ends this weekend and we have our final predictions to present to you. Before we get into the meat of the predictions, here are some introductions written by our contributors. After you finish reading our introductions, head into the predictions and see…

For our final Rundown article, the biggest category of them all. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Picture as well as general commentary about the race. Next year, we’ll start it all over again, but until then. Enjoy the show.

There’s not much time left. Sunday, we will find out just how much we did and did not know about this Oscar season. While I’ve contributed quick thoughts to our Rundown articles, I always like to do more with my final post of the year. This will include how I think the races will finish…

For our twenty-first Rundown article, we look at those who take all the various aural elements and fuse them together. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Sound Mixing as well as general commentary about the race. Friday, we’ll cover the only category with a 100% accuracy rate at predicting…

Spirit Awards voters are set to recognize the best in independent cinema, which has a lot of crossover with the Oscars this year. That said, by the time the awards are given out, the Saturday before the Oscars, their voices won’t have any impact. That won’t really matter and sometimes, the Spirit Awards can be…

For our twentieth Rundown article, we look at the category most responsible for the coifs and facial decorations. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Makeup & Hairstyling as well as general commentary about the race. Thursday, we’ll cover a category that seldom mirrors Best Picture, but often goes hand-in-hand…

For our nineteenth Rundown article, we look at the category responsible for clothing. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Costume Design as well as general commentary about the race. Wednesday, we’ll cover the only category that can have no more than three nominees.

For our eighteenth Rundown article, we look at the men and women responsible for getting the project from paper to screen. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Directing as well as general commentary about the race. Tuesday, we’ll cover a category that often goes hand-in-hand with a category we’ve…

Although the Make-Up Artists & Hair Stylists Guild has five categories, only the special make-up effects really has any bearing on Oscar as the others are not things the typical Academy voter even looks at when voting in the Makeup & Hairstyling category, in spite of the name change. It doesn’t help that the branch…

The Cinema Audio Society has, over the years had varying degrees of success forecasting the Oscars. They have three categories, but only one correlates to the Oscars and that’s the one for live-action films. Here are our predictions in those categories just in time for the awards Saturday night. CINEMA AUDIO SOCIETY AWARDS Best Sound…

For our seventeenth Rundown article, we look at the secondary male acting category. 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 where Best Picture nominees are most required to feature a…