Category: Predictions

For our fifth Rundown article, we examine Best Documentary Feature. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Documentary Feature as well as general commentary about the race. Thursday, we’ll cover Best Documentary Short Subject.

For our fourth Rundown article, we look at Best Live Action Short Film. 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. Wednesday, we’ll cover Best Documentary Feature.

For our third Rundown article, we explore Best International Feature Film. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best International Feature Film as well as general commentary about the race. Tuesday, we’ll cover Best Live Action Short Film.

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

For our first Rundown article of the year, we look at one of the categories with no adequate guild precursor. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Original Score as well as general commentary about the race. Friday, we’ll cover Best Original Song.

The final test of Nomadland‘s ability to sweep into the Oscars is the stuffy, success-craving Producers Guild of America. If it can win here, it can win the Oscar. We’ll just have to see how things go. (Editor’s Note: Updated to include Tripp’s predictions & commentary. 12:06pm Central, 3/23/21) PRODUCERS GUILD OF AMERICA AWARDS Best…

With the frontrunner for Best Adapted Screenplay at the Oscars ineligible for this award, we’ll be left with the winner of the Original Screenplay prize to tell us if there’s going to be a clean sweep or a knock-down, drag-out fight between The Trial of the Chicago 7 and Promising Young Woman. WRITERS GUILD OF…

Based on our nominations predictions, here’s how we did. Once again, it was an incredibly close competition. 1 correct prediction separated first and second place. This year, Thomas La Tourrette came out on top with 89 correct predictions, just 1 more than Wesley Lovell. Tripp was third with 81 correct predictions and Peter J. Patrick…

Now that the Oscar nominations have been announced, it’s time to get to guessing on the winners. Our contributors’ performances in this year’s nominations will be reviewed and posted hopefully this evening. (This has been updated with Thomas’ predictions)

FOR AN OSCAR MORNING TRACKING SHEET, CLICK HERE. My predictions are in BOLD. It’s always difficult to know precisely how the Academy will handle the announcements. We have the list of categories that will be announced and in which grouping, but we have no idea in what order they will be announced. We know that…

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. The strangest part of this year…

The origination of this organization is rather strange in itself. A collegiate group who honor adapted screenplays, both acknowledging the original writer and the screenwriter. It’s a very bizarre kind of thing to generate, but they have sometimes been a fairly accurate barometer of the Oscars. Sometimes, though, they’ve been completely left-field in their approach.…

There are reasons this organization has an outsized influence on the Oscars, but those reasons are complex and could easily be considered sniping, so I’ll just leave it at this: The former Broadcast Film Critics Association has a good track record. And as one of only three televised awards shows leading up to the Oscars,…

The first televised awards show of the season kicks off amid controversy. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association is no stranger to charges of bias, especially in its past bribery controversies. However, this time, it’s not so easy. It was recently revealed that there are no HFPA members of color. That’s a rather staggering fact to…

With the vast majority of critics having now spoken, it’s time to look forward to the guild nominations. We’ve already seen what the Screen Actors Guild has to offer and we’ll get quite a few more in the next few weeks. This is likely our penultimate predictions prior to the Oscar nominations being announced in…