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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 – Best Lead Actor

Everyone loves a good leading man, and this year’s crop of Best Actor nominees in particular are a star-studded bunch. Its especially impressive given that these actors are becoming characters, rather than creating them. TV icons, sports legends, and theater heroes are…

94th Academy Awards Predictions – Film Editing

I waited to write about this so that I could see what BAFTA told us about the Editing race. With the not-nominated No Time to Die winning, we’re left with a far wider and less certain race than we started the week with.…

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…