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Year in Advance Predictions – The Batman

While I’m not quite as eager as others to read the tea leaves of the awards season, I do enjoy thinking ahead. Part of this effort is an attempt at predicting for next year’s Oscars. More importantly, this is my version of…

94th Academy Awards – Best Picture and Final Predictions

This is it. The last call, the Big Kahuna, and the one for all the marbles. It’s the Academy Award for Best Picture. After an extended season filled with dramatic twists and ceremonial changes, ballots have been cast and campaigns have been…

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 – Best Adapted Screenplay

She who wins the Adapted Screenplay award shall win the Oscar. That’s the essential vibe of this race. Both Best Picture frontrunners, CODA and The Power of the Dog, are hoping to use this to take the race. It’s the tale of two…

94th Academy Awards Predictions – Best Lead Actress

What was once the most chaotic race has quickly evolved into one of simple expectations. The final acting race for this site to cover is Best Lead Actress, where three past winners and two beloved modern movie stars are competing for the…

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 Award Predictions – Cinematography

The last of the below-the-line races to be covered, Best Cinematography is facing a particular dilemma until this coming Sunday (03/20) when the American Society of Cinematographers gives their input. There is a lot riding on this category, from Dune‘s hopes for…

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 – 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.…