Category: Predictions

For our fourth Rundown article, it’s time to look at the Live Action Short Film category. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Live Action Short Film as well as general commentary about the race. Tomorrow, we’ll cover the documentary categories.

For our third Rundown article, the International Feature category gets our attention. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best International Feature as well as general commentary about the race. Tomorrow, we’ll cover one of the short film categories.

The USC Libraries holds an event each year celebrating the best screenplay adapted from existing works. Seldom do they recognize anything but literary adaptations to the big screen, but sometimes, like with The Tragedy of Macbeth, they’ll nominate play adaptations. They also have a pretty solid track record for Oscar foreshadowing, certainly better than the…

The carry over between SAG and Oscar is surprisingly minimal this year. Sure, Best Actor was identical, but the other categories saw two or three people each swapped out. Will that have an impact on Oscar voting? Quite possibly. It all depends on who wins.

For our second Rundown article, we’ll look at Original Score. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Original Score as well as general commentary about the race. Next week, we’ll start off on Monday with Best International Feature.

For our first Rundown article, we tackle Original Song. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Original Song as well as general commentary about the race. Tomorrow, we’ll cover the other music category, Original Score.

The first guild to present its awards for the year, the Make-Up Artists & Hair Stylists Guild link up with the Oscar category of Makeup & Hairstyling (naturally). Here are our predictions for the winners and runners-up for this weekend’s awards with commentary by three of our four contributors.

The nominations have been announced and it’s now time for our prognosticators to take a stab at winner predictions. Here are our first thoughts on the race as it stands. We’ll dig into more depth in our Rundown Series. (Editor’s Note: Thomas’ commentary has been added.) KEY: Appears on Four Lists Appears on Three Lists…

Based on our nominations predictions, here’s how we did. With such an uncharacteristic year, it was an incredibly close competition for some. We had a tie this year for most correct predictions. Last year, the top person got 82. This year, it was 86 and those two who got that many write were Peter J.…

Every year, I try to decide if I want to stick to my tradition or go in a new direction. At over 6,000 words last year, and with very little time left this year (I had dueling obligations between the OFTA and sickness), I’ve had to consider what’s best for me and for you. That…

And after two and a half months of near-constant precursors, the time is almost upon us. Tomorrow morning, the 94th Oscar nominations will be revealed to all. As is our tradition, we post today our final nomination predictions. Each of our contributors have provided what commentary they wish and I’ve posted my annual Oscar Morning…

As is our tradition, May begins our first predictive look at the year’s Oscar hopefuls. A lot of factors will play into how well our guesses hold up. Expect many of them to fall by the wayside as the year progresses and new contenders to rise into their places. While most of the guilds haven’t…

As is our tradition, May begins our first predictive look at the year’s Oscar hopefuls. A lot of factors will play into how well our guesses hold up. Expect many of them to fall by the wayside as the year progresses and new contenders to rise into their places. With the festival circuit having run…

Every year, in March, we start predicting the subsequent year’s Oscars. However, a pandemic got in the way and pushed the Oscars into April and forced us to reposition our first predictions (as Hollywood repositioned all of its Oscar contenders). As such, three months late, we’re finally giving you our initial predictions and, based on…