Category: Predictions

For our sixteenth Rundown article, we look at the category where sound is created out of whole cloth. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Sound Editing as well as general commentary about the race. Friday, we’ll cover a category where only men can be nominated and where there has…

For our fifteenth Rundown article, we look at the only category that visually overlays something onto nothing. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Visual Effects as well as general commentary about the race. Thursday, we’ll cover the category that was once a special achievement award while its aural counterpart…

For our fourteenth Rundown article, we look at the lightest category. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Cinematography as well as general commentary about the race. Wednesday, we’ll cover a category where a Best Picture nomination pretty much assures a win, unless there are multiples.

The Costume Designers Guild recognizes the best in costume design for the year and, being broken into three categories, has three opportunities to try and correctly predict the Oscars. This year, there’s only two as none of the contemporary nominees made it to the Oscar nominations and the two biggest competitors, Phantom Thread and Beauty…

For our thirteenth Rundown article, we tackle the top male acting category. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Actor as well as general commentary about the race. Tuesday, we’ll cover a category that has seldom matched up with Best Picture even when it’s one of the most crucial elements…

The Motion Picture Sound Editors, those fine folk who contribute to the Best Sound Editing (formerly Best Sound Effects Editing) Oscar will reveal their winners on Sunday. With seven categories, it’s hard to be certain which will most reflect thoughts of Oscar voters, there are really only two categories that typically correlate: Sound Effects and…

Once upon a time, the British Academy of Film & Television Arts gave out their awards after the Oscars, making them mostly an afterthought and, in some situations, a copycat. Then they shifted to before the Oscars and since then, they have become a major bellwether. What we are looking for here is not for…

Although the Best Cinematography Oscar is directly tied to the American Society of Cinematographers’ award for the same category, they have disagreed so often that you cannot count on the ASC to give a truly accurate picture of where Academy voters might head. After all, only ASC members vote here, but at the Oscars, non-cinematographers…

For our twelfth Rundown article, the most able assistance any category could have. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Supporting Actress as well as general commentary about the race. Next week, we’ll start off on Monday with an acting category where once a Best Picture win most frequently required…

For our eleventh Rundown article, we’ll examine the most derivative category. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Adapted Screenplay as well as general commentary about the race. Friday, we’ll cover an acting category that counts among its winners, the fewest from corresponding Best Picture winners.

For our tenth Rundown article, we look at the most inventive category. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Original Screenplay as well as general commentary about the race. Thursday, we’ll cover the category that, behind Directing and any of the acting categories, has matched up with Best Picture the…

For our ninth Rundown article, the shortest categories the Oscars have. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Animated Short Film & Live Action Short Film as well as general commentary about the race. Wednesday, we’ll cover the writing category with the most abysmal correlation with Best Picture.

Only three categories are at all connected to the Oscars. Two have been associated with every winner of the Best Visual Effects category, while the third has, historically, has only brought one nominee a long, but that’s enough for it to at least have some influence. VISUAL EFFECTS SOCIETY AWARDS Best Visual Effects in a…

For our eighth Rundown article, we look at a category with a history of bold performances. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Actress as well as general commentary about the race. Tuesday, we’ll cover two categories that have never had an impact on any other Oscar categories, but from…

Whereas the Writers Guild of America has its peculiarities, so too does the USC Libraries Scripter award. Although, films are seldom outright declared ineligible, USC prefers to select titles that are adaptations of literary works. The reason for this is that they also award the author of the original work. Winners here have a good…