Category: Predictions

For our sixth Rundown article, we look at one of the year’s most controversial categories because of the big omission no one had expected. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Animated Feature as well as general commentary about the race. Friday, we’ll cover the only categories where real life…

For our fifth Rundown article, we look at two categories that may be short in length, but can be mighty in impact. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Animated Short Film and Best Live-Action Short Film as well as general commentary about the race. Thursday, we’ll cover one of…

At the beginning of the season, Interstellar seemed like a slam-dunk winner. Nowadays, that thought isn’t as prevalent.

For our fourth Rundown article, we look at the most secure category at the Oscars this year. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Supporting Actor as well as general commentary about the race. Wednesday, we’ll look at two of the smaller categories, not just by familiarity, but by length.

For our third Rundown article, we examine one of the seemingly pre-set categories for this year’s Oscars. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Supporting Actress as well as general commentary about the race. Tueday, we’ll cover another foregone concluion.

The USC Scripter Awards are given out by the University of Southern California Libraries as a fundraiser of sorts. They are shown live on the internet every year and are often a bit more entertaining and engaging than some televised awards shows. The award goes to the author of the original work and the screenwriter…

The Art Directors Guild presents the best in production design in three categories covering period films, sci-fi and fantasy films and contemporary-set films. The period award is the most closely aligned with the Oscars.

The Annie Awards are the premier organization honoring animation. They have a number of categories the Oscars don’t have (naturally) and they present them in an annual webcast presentation that has some funny moments, but is generally more weakly produced than their televised rivals. Thomas and I both made prediction in all categories, but we…

For our second Rundown article, we look at a category that ended up competitive in a completely different way than we imagined. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Foreign Language Film as well as general commentary about the race. Next week, we’ll start off on Monday with a category…

The American Cinema Editors are one of the oldest guilds in existence, at least in terms of which guilds give out awards. As such, they are a crucial forecaster of the Best Editing Oscar and can also give hints as to what films might just carry over to Best Picture wins.

For our first Rundown article, we are looking at the music categories. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Original Score and Best Original Song as well as general commentary about the race. Friday, we’ll cover the first category where a major upset left one of the key competitors off…

This weekend, two of the biggest guild precursors bring us our last real chances at upset victories. Looking over our predictions, there seems to be a lot of variance in many places, suggesting that no one is precisely certain how these sometimes-persnickety groups will vote. We still try to take a stab at it. The…

While we’re quite a bit delayed from when we had expected to have these posted, here are our first post-Oscar Nominations predictions. We give you a primary choice and a runner-up in each category. We did not share commentary this time as we’ll get deeply into that with our annual Rundown series, which begins next…

I made prediction changes up until late in the day on Wednesday evening. Now it’s time to take a look at how I did overall with some commentary about the races as they turned out. Within the last week, I made a number of changes, some of those weren’t very fruitful (eliminating Robert Duvall from…

Our contributors each put forward a list of predictions for the Oscars. Here’s how we did. Please note that I (Wesley Lovell) made changes to my final predictions after this went live, so the accuracy here will differ. However, at the time we all put forth our nominations, this is how we saw it. Our…