Category: Predictions

Sunday night, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) will present their annual Golden Globe Awards, the industry’s first televised precursor and one of the most legendary of them all. While they weren’t always the best forecasters, their choices in recent years have been better, thus what they pick matters a great deal. Any choice that…

Yesterday, I discussed my pre-guild predictions in several categories. Today, I finish up those discussions with the final eleven. Enjoy. Best Original Song There are no guilds to reference for this category, so this might be the last time I revisit this category. Looking over the handful of groups that nominate for this award, including…

The first guild to announce every year is the Screen Actors Guild, which now reveals their nominees in early December (this year it was on Dec. 9, 2015). Their reasoning is that with the nominees in place, work can begin on preparing their annual telecast. This is a perfectly understandable decision, but it does create…

What a difference a month can make. In November, we were certain that Joy and The Hateful Eight would be major players. Now, they are almost afterthoughts. A month ago, no one thought Mad Max: Fury Road would so effectively dominate the critics awards, yet after countless prizes for Best Picture and Best Director, we…

In little over an hour, we’ll know the full extent to which the Golden Globe Awards have either matched the Screen Actors Guild or repudiated them. Since only 2,000 members of SAG are selected for the nominating committee from a significantly larger body, samples can often be unrepresentative of the body as a whole, thus…

For Oscar fans, There are three months of the year that have significance to them more than any other. In December, January and February, various organizations and guilds give out awards in anticipation of the biggest award of them all, the Academy Awards. It may seem hard to believe, but Oscar season officially begins with…

The festival circuit has been abuzz with recent releases and Toronto is the festival most insiders watch to see what could emerge as big Oscar contenders. We learned that Steve Jobs, Room and Truth could be contenders while other films fell quickly by the wayside like Freeheld, Legend and Stonewall may not be cut out…

With Cannes now a distant memory and the thumping pulse of the summer blockbuster season keeping thoughts out of the year’s Oscar race, we thought it would be a good time to update our predictions. These post-Cannes selections also include some recent developments. Some films have developed stronger support, while others have faded. It’s still…

As is our Cinema Sight tradition, this month, we announce our first, super-early predictions for the Academy Award nominations this year. With less than half the year completed, there are a lot of question marks in the field and while we try our best to anticipate the fickle impressions of Academy voters, these predictions should…

Here’s a look at how our predictors did this year. By and large, we did better in some respects and worse in others. Not a single category didn’t have a winner or runner-up predicted correctly, which is an improvement even if our primary picks were down year-over-year. We were all fairly close together in terms…

We’re down to the wire. 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…

We’ve come now to the end. Sunday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences will alleviate our suspense by announcing the winners of its 87th annual prizes. While many of our predictions are the same, we tend to differ in what films will spoil the race. Below are our final unified predictions for this…

The Academy Awards seem to be turning into the Spirit Awards, with dozens of surprise matches between the groups. Best Picture at the Oscars contains four of the five films nominated for Best Feature here. This will be the last precursor of the season and won’t really have much impact since it’s showing the day…

For our sixteenth and final Rundown article, we look at the Big One. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Picture as well as general commentary about the race.

For our fifteenth Rundown article, we look at the visual foundations of all films. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Production Design and Best Costume Design as well as general commentary about the race. Thursday, we’ll cover the final category.