Category: Predictions

For our fourth Rundown article, we look at the artificial environments and characters that entertained adults and children this year. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Animated Feature as well as general commentary about the race. Tomorrow, we’ll cover one of the year’s supporting categories.

For our third Rundown article, we examine the shortest movies in the competition. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Animated Short Film & Best Live-Action Short Film as well as general commentary about the race. Tomorrow, we’ll cover a category featuring artificial characters and environments.

The Visual Effects Society represents visual effects designers and is essentially the guild for those artists. As such, we look to them to give us a hint of what could show up on Oscar nomination day and they have a pretty solid track record predicting Visual Effects at the Oscars. This year, however, will probably…

For our second Rundown article, we look at the films that received only one Oscar nomination overall. 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. Tomorrow, we’ll cover two categories where feature length isn’t an option.

For our first Rundown article, we’re going to start with the music categories, one of the few sets of categories that don’t have much in the way of precursor attention and no active guild participation. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Original Score and Best Original Song as well…

The Art Directors Guild represent the production designers and costume designers that make the sets and overall artistic designs of motion pictures pop. If you love the location, the decor or anything about the visual look of a film, you can probably thank an Art Director. They don’t have a spotless history predicting the Oscars,…

The Best Editing category at the Oscars is one of the most prescient categories currently in existence. It’s been more accurate than Best Director and that’s saying something. While a win isn’t necessary, films that are on the bubble can get a great boost from it. The American Cinema Editors is the guild representing the…

There are three precursors announcing prizes the same night (Saturday). One of them, the Annie Awards, will be live streamed (At least, it should be. I haven’t checked, but it has been in the past.) Since the Annies are quite a bit more difficult to predict since they sometimes feel so whim-intensive, none of our…

The DGA has been an accurate predictor of the Best Director winner at the Oscars in nearly every year they’ve existed. Discounting the unaligned eligibility periods of the first two years, the DGA has failed to predict Oscar in only seven contests: 1968, 1972, 1985, 1995, 2000, 2002, 2012. In three of those years (1985,…

Somehow I managed to forget to post this Friday when I had intended as opposed to today when I hadn’t intended. I haven’t changed any predictions, so the SAG and PGA victories over the weekend would not have impacted the below predictions. After the DGA, we’ll consider revising. Then, in February, we’ll start our annual…

Sunday evening, the Producers Guild of America will have a private gathering, not open to the public, where they will announce their winners for this year’s best in three film categories. Those results could have ripple effects not just for Academy voters, but across the blogosphere with the results being a telegraph of the upcoming…

The Screen Actors Guild has been around many years, but is one of the youngest guilds in terms of giving awards. This marks their 20th year. Below are our predictions on who we think will win the SAG film awards along with comments on why we made our decisions. The honors will be handed out…

The annual right of passage known as the Critics Choice Awards will be telecast tonight on The CW. While not strictly the Critics’ Choice, since they don’t permit print or internet critics without high circulation and focuses mainly on critics whose work appears on television, they just happen to be better promoters and better predictors,…

The nominations for the 86th Annual Academy Awards have been announced. There were no true left-field inclusions that no one could have seen coming, though there were some surprise inclusions and surprise omissions that didn’t quite fit the narrative established prior to today. Here are the nominations as highlighted by our predictions and where we…