Category: Predictions

For our eleventh Rundown article, we look at the awards the govern the look and pace of a film. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Film Editing and Best Cinematography as well as general commentary about the race. Thursday, we’ll cover the sound of cinema.

Aligning with the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects, the appropriately named Visual Effects Society will hand out several prizes with only the top two having much impact on this year’s Oscar race.

For our tenth Rundown article, we examine the fiction short films. 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. Wednesday, we’ll cover the look and the pace of the Oscars.

The Costume Designers Guild will struggle to align with Oscar because they have been uncharacteristically inaccurate, matching only two nominees at the Oscars with at least one Oscar nominee (Little Women) more likely than any of these.

For our ninth Rundown article, we look at hair and makeup. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Makeup & Hairstyling as well as general commentary about the race. Tuesday, we’ll cover a handful of short films.

The American Society of Cinematographers may align with the Academy’s Best Cinematography Oscar, but they also have a relatively poor track record thanks to their Boys Club-ish mentality that has resulted in some cinematographers winning numerous times and then losing at the Oscars.

This award may speak more to the eventual Oscar winner than anything as it’s one of the most accurate. That said, it could correspond with either Best Picture or Best Directing at the Oscars or both.

The Annie Awards are the industry’s highest animation honors and their selections are typically good bellwethers for the Oscar race. That said, the top nominee of the year isn’t the Oscar frontrunner, so it might end up being one of those years where DreamWorks dominates and is ignored by the Academy.

The guild most associated with the Sound Mixing category at the Oscars might have a bit of trouble replicating this year since it’s missing one of the Oscar contenders from their own list, 1917.

While this group tends to avoid certain types of adaptations, it’s still one of the best prognosticators to the Adapted Screenplay Oscar there is.

For our eighth Rundown article, we look at leading women. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Actress as well as general commentary about the race. Next week, we’ll start off on Monday with a category the category that can render people unrecognizable or perhaps recognizable as someone else.

For our seventh Rundown article, we look at leading men. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Actor as well as general commentary about the race. Friday, we’ll cover the feminine counterpart

For our sixth Rundown article, we look at supporting men. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Supporting Actor as well as general commentary about the race. Thursday, we’ll cover their leading counterparts.

For our fifth Rundown article, we look at the supporting women. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Supporting Actress as well as general commentary about the race. Wednesday, we’ll cover the male counterpart.

For our fourth Rundown article, we look at the documentary awards. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Documentary Feature and Best Documentary Short Subject as well as general commentary about the race. Tuesday, we’ll cover Best Supporting Actress.