This Monday, awards season will finally kick off with the 74th Primetime Emmy Awards. We will finally learn what the best of the best* shows were in one of the most surprisingly great years in the medium’s history. Hell, I’ve even watched every...
We are now at the dawn of festival season, and with Oscar winners being born and dying over and over for the next few weeks, I thought I’d take a moment to freshen up my predictions. After all, the last time I wrote about the Best Picture race...
It’s finally here! Festival season is upon us! And while we now generally know which films will be in the race, we will soon know exactly which films will impress, which will fall flat, and who will soon be marching their way to Oscar glory. And...
There is a common misconception amongst awards prognosticators that The Music Categories are the hardest awards to predict in advance. After all, you can guess what movies are coming out, and which ones will appeal to voters, with a certain...
With the fall festival season starting later this week, perhaps it’s time to turn to the stupidest categories to predict this early in the season: the Features. While Animated, Documentary, and International Feature are supposed to be equals to...
With the acting categories securely in our rearview mirror, I thought now was the perfect time to turn our attention to the Screenplay categories. Alongside Best Director and Best Editing, the Screenplay categories are your best bet at predicting...
As always, we wrap up our look at the acting nominees with Best Supporting Actress. While it usually doesn’t play a major role in the Best Picture race, a strong Supporting Actress – be it a supportive wife or mother, a spunky ingenue, or a...
The largest category of every year, by far, is Best Supporting Actor. With most films still dominated by men, and the definition of “Supporting” ranging from “has one really good scene” to “Wait, they’re top billed, how are they not a Lead?” this...
While the Oscar race is still predominantly dominated by male actors in male-driven stories, the last five years has seen a major push on the Academy’s part for female-led pictures. The Shape of Water, Nomadland, and CODA all had female leads...
No matter how much progress is made in diversifying the Oscars, some things will always remain the same. In this case, it’s that the best way to get a Best Picture nomination is make a film with a Best Actor nominee. In the last 12 years, every...
We’re only in July, and already the Oscar race has gone through so much turmoil. Films like Next Goal Wins and The Maestro have been pushed to 2023, others like The Stars At Noon and Three Thousand Years of Longing had muted (or outright bad)...
This Tuesday, the fall awards season officially kicks off with the nominees for the 74th Primetime Emmy Awards. And while the Emmys can often feel like a bit of a slump due to their frequent streaks for long-running shows (Game of Thrones kept...
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