Category: Predictions

For our second Rundown article, we examine one of the individual components of a score. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Original Song as well as general commentary about the race. Friday, we’ll cover a category where male individuals bolster their leading counterparts.

For our first Rundown article, we look at the musical category that defines the overall tone of a film. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Original Score as well as general commentary about the race. Thursday, we’ll cover a companion category that is a part of the whole.

Two of the biggest guild precursors announce this weekend. One will be at a private dinner on Saturday night and the other will be a glitzy telecast on Sunday evening. The Screen Actors Guild is voted on by members of the acting community, both those working in television and in film. The Producers Guild of…

The first Guild to announce its winners this year will be the American Cinema Editors who announce their selections on Saturday night. One of the best categories to use to predict the Oscar for Best Picture, Best Editing is one of the first places we look and the Best Picture frontrunner is the one we…

Our first look at the Oscar landscape after the nominations has revealed itself in our first predictions of this year’s winners. I had intended to post this article last night, but somehow it missed the scheduling. Below you will find our first predictions. We have 100% agreed in 13 of 24 categories and selected identical…

FOR AN OSCAR MORNING TRACKING SHEET, CLICK HERE. My predictions are in BOLD. After two years of a new format of announcing the nominations, the Academy has mixed things up again with an audience-free streaming announcement starting at 5:18am Pacific on Tuesday, January 24. Academy president Cheryl Boone-Isaacs will be joined by Oscar winners Jennifer…

And here we have it, our final predictions before the Oscar nominations tomorrow morning. Our contributors have put a lot of time and effort into their selections and their commentary. Looking over our lists, it’s notable to see that we share 9 films in common in the Best Picture race while nearly all of the…

This Sunday, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) will present its annual Golden Globe Awards, one of the oldest awards giving bodies out there, their selections will give us hints towards what Oscar might be contemplating or should be contemplating. We’ve taken a look at the precursors and the nominations for the Golden Globe awards…

Now that the great majority of critics have had their say and most of the guilds haven’t, we thought we’d put together one final list for 2016. Below are our predictions in eleven categories. A lot has changed, but a lot has stayed the same. Things are starting to coalesce around 60%-80% of the potential…

There are only a few more unseen films left to consider, The Founder (has been seen, but not widely discussed), Miss Sloane (has been seen, but not widely discussed), and Silence (hasn’t been seen yet). That doesn’t mean there aren’t other films that haven’t had much coverage that could be players, but these are three…