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90th Academy Awards: ‘The Shape Of Water’ Wins Four, Including Best Picture

After month after grueling month of turning tides, twisting roads and multiple awards, we have finally seen the Academy Awards name The Shape of Water as the Best Picture of the Year. Guillermo del Toro’s touching fantasy fairy tale love story...

03/05/2018 Travis Burgess 90th Academy Awards, Blade Runner 2049, Dunkirk, Get Out, Oscars, The Shape of Water, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri 0 Comments

90th Academy Awards LIVE RESULTS!

Tonight’s the night we’ve all been waiting for! Who will win, who will give the best speech, and who will be the best dressed? We still don’t know who’s going to win Best Picture, so we’re in for a great race. We’ll have more of a breakdown...

03/04/2018 Travis Burgess 90th Academy Awards, Live Results, Oscars 0 Comments

90th Academy Award Final Predictions

God, I am both so ready and so unready for this season to end. On the one hand, this has been one of the most unpredictable races in years, completely unpredictable and unique. No matter what film wins, history will be made. However, on the other...

03/02/2018 Travis Burgess 90th Academy Awards, Baby Driver, Blade Runner 2049, Darkest Hour, Dunkirk, Get Out, Oscars, Predictions, The Shape of Water, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri 0 Comments

90th Academy Awards Predictions: Predicting An Unpredictable Race

The Oscars are a little over a week away. Before I post final predictions, I want to lay out a map for you all about where we are in the race. Because, quite frankly, this is the craziest, most insane year of the Oscars I have ever witnessed. Oh...

02/22/2018 Travis Burgess 90th Academy Awards, Baby Driver, Dunkirk, Final Predictions, Get Out, Lady Bird, Oscars, The Shape of Water, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri 0 Comments

90th Academy Award Nominations: Who’s In, Who’s Out, And Who Surprised

Well, nobody said this race was going to be easy. The Oscar nominations are here, and they have done their best to make this as challenging as possible, even if I managed to go a personal best 90/122 (and 5/5 in Best Actress, Original Screenplay...

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90th Academy Award Nominations LIVE!

It’s finally time for the Oscar nominations! You can see the final list of nominations right here, or you can follow along on Good Morning America or the Academy Awards’ Facebook page. I’ll have a full breakdown on the race...

01/23/2018 Travis Burgess 90th Academy Awards, Good Morning America, Nominations, Oscars 0 Comments

Final 90th Academy Award Predictions

It’s finally time, everyone! One day more! Gird your loins, fasten your seatbelts, and all those classic lines: the Oscar nominations are announced tomorrow. I’ve crunched the numbers, I’ve run the data, and I’ve done the maths, and I’m ready to...

01/22/2018 Travis Burgess 90th Academy Awards, Final Predictions, Get Out, Lady Bird, Oscars, Predictions, The Shape of Water, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri 0 Comments

Complete 90th Academy Award Predictions

We have only a few weeks left before the 90th Oscar nominations are announced, and it suddenly dawned on me that I haven’t posted a fully contemplative list of my predictions. So, in response to the list of shortlists I posted on Sunday, and...

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The Academy Shortlists: Snubs And Shocks Below The Line

As we get closer to the Oscar nominations, we’re going to be hearing more and more about the shortlists that the branches have released. You see, while certain fields (Picture, Actor, Music) allow everything that is eligible to compete for the...

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An Awards Week Oscar Update

Starting this week, the critics will start handing out the first awards of the season. This week alone, we have the Gothams, the National Board of Review, the New York Film Critics Circle, and the LA Film Critics Association. After this week, we...

11/28/2017 Travis Burgess 90th Academy Awards, Call Me By Your Name, Dunkirk, Get Out, Gotham Independent Film Awards, Lady Bird, National Board of Review, Predictions, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri 0 Comments

A 90th Oscar Predictions Update

There is something strange brewing on the horizon. Can you feel it? It’s in the winds of this Oscar season, and I’m not sure how many casual viewers are aware of it. Let me paint the picture for you so you can understand. We have just completed...

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90th Academy Award Predictions: The Screenplays

The Screenplay Awards are arguably the most entertaining race at the Oscars. Not only is it the most predicative of the Best Picture race (no film has won without a Best Screenplay nomination since 2007), but this is the category that most often...