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94th Academy Awards Predictions – Best Director

While filmmaking is a collaborative effort, every team needs a team leader. Someone not just to make important decisions, but bring out the best of every actor, cameraperson, and editor behind the scenes. The Academy Award for Best Director is one of…

94th Academy Awards Predictions – Best Original Screenplay

The initial plan was to wait for the Writers Guild Awards to confirm that it was finally time for Paul Thomas Anderson to win an Oscar for Licorice Pizza. Then they happened, and Original Screenplay went from a fairly simple category to one…

94th Academy Awards Predictions – Sound

We’re doing some things a bit differently for this category. While I’ll still be giving a close analysis of each nominee, a real sample of the sound work couldn’t be done justice with the written word. Fortunately, someone on Twitter named Will…

94th Academy Awards Predictions – Best Supporting Actor

Closing this week’s coverage of the Oscar race is the Best Supporting Actor race. A beloved race for many film fans, the Best Supporting Actor race is often where people get to see long-beloved actors that never got a moment in the…

94th Academy Awards – Best Original Song

Who doesn’t love a good song? One of the simplest yet paradoxically hardest races to predict is the Original Song race. There are very few precursors for it, and the ones that do exist spread their categories so that a frontrunner can…

94th Academy Awards Predictions – Supporting Actress

A legend of the industry, an actress far overdue for her first nomination, a character actress breaking through big, and two up-and-coming stars. This is the Best Supporting Actress category. In the first of our predictions on the above-the-line acting races, I’ll…

Awards Season Check-Up – Oscar Voting Officially Begins

On January 27th, nominations for Academy Award voters were officially sent out. The nomination process lasts until February 1st, with nominations announced on February 8th. It signals the end of an incredibly important week for awards voting, with every major guild except…

Awards Season Check-Up – Phase 1 is Done, Phase 2 Ahead

With the conclusion of AFI Fest on November 14, that’s an official wrap on the film festival season and Phase 1 of the 2021 awards season. We are now in a brief interlude between AFI Fest and the announcement of the National…