While this year’s Oscar slate isn’t as great as last’s (to be fair, that is an unfair high bar), the awards show itself should be more interesting, with the winners not seemingly locked headed into Sunday. Several of the Best Picture nominees appeared on my year-end Top 10 (though my #1 “Challengers” was snubbed across… Continue reading 97th Academy Awards: Who Could, Should, and Will Win
It’s once again time for the Super Bowl for movie fans, the Academy Awards. This year’s race has been closer in multiple categories than in recent memory, and it’s made the awards season all the more enjoyable. I’m bound to get some (or all) of these wrong, but here are my best guesses on how… Continue reading 95th Academy Awards: Who Could, Should, Will Win
It’s Christmas morning for movie fans, Oscar nomination day! As always, there were a handful of surprises and a few snubs, and overall I did pretty good with my predictions. “Everything Everywhere All at Once” led the way with 11 nominations (an over-performance, even by its favorite-to-win standards), and “All Quiet on the Western Front”… Continue reading 2023 Oscar Nominations and Reactions
In what was a pretty good year at the movies in 2021, the Oscar lineup is actually somewhat underwhelming. In my opinion it is the weakest batch of Best Picture nominees that we have seen in years, with only three or four of them scoring above a 5 with me. Still, there are chances for… Continue reading 94th Academy Awards Predictions: Who Will, Could, and Should Win
2019 was a very solid year for movies, and this awards season has (for the most part) been an improvement and redemption for the absolute dumpster fire that was last year (in any other awards year Rami Malek winning Best Actor for his SNL performance would have been a travesty; last year it was just… Continue reading 92nd Academy Awards Predictions: Who Will, Could, and Should Win
The 2018 awards season has been nuts. Films like “First Man” that seemed built to get Oscar nominations crumbled and then the likes of “Bohemian Rhapsody” went from a probable Best Actor nominee to getting nods for Best Picture and Editing, as well as a likely Acting win. Yes, it has been crazy but it… Continue reading 91st Academy Awards Predictions: Who Will, Could, and Should Win
The 2018 Award Season has been a mess and Tuesday’s Oscar accountments kept things par for the course. Big snubs, big surprises and bucking some old trends, the nominations for the 91st Academy Awards are here and Twitter is on fire. Here are the big categories with my thoughts, in what surely will be a… Continue reading 2019 Oscar Nominations and Reactions
With the 90th Academy Awards taking place Sunday night, here is a rundown of who I think deserves to win each of the main awards, as well as whom I believe will and who has a fighting chance. A lot of the big categories seem to be locked up, but there are still some nail-biters… Continue reading 90th Academy Awards Predictions: Who Will, Could, and Should Win
It’s like Christmas Morning for movie fans. I woke up early and had to wait around anxiously until I was given the OK to get my day started. But instead of presents under the tree, we get our names of who will be up for Academy Awards this year. There were few surprises, a few… Continue reading 2018 Oscar Nominations and Reactions
The 89th Academy Awards are less than a week away, so naturally it’s time to predict them. This year things are more up-in-the-air than usual, with only one essential lock, although betting your mortgage on “La La Land” winning multiple awards is the closest thing to a safe bet as they come nowadays. Here, I’ll… Continue reading 89th Academy Awards Predictions: Who Will, Could, and Should Win
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