Award Predictions – The Sacred Wall

91st Academy Award Predictions: Best Director

It would be pointless to try to predict Best Picture without immediately taking a look at Best Director. After all, the two are often tied hand-in-hand – and while the past nine years under the preferential ballot have only boasted a 55% match...

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91st Academy Award Predictions: Best Picture

The Oscars are officially a week old, which means it’s time for one thing, and one thing only: the early predictions for the 91st Academy Awards! Wait, come back, where are you going?!? Yes, I’m well aware that you are still detoxing from last...

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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...

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Reviewing And Predicting The Oscar Nominated Shorts

The short films are the red-headed bastard child of the Academy Awards to many people. They are incredibly difficult to see, the people who vote for them are a complete mystery, and the final results are pretty much chance, meaning they are...

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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...

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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...

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24th Screen Actors Guild Award Final Predictions

We’re getting closer and closer to the actual Oscar race, which means that events like the Screen Actors Guild awards are destined to come along and shake up the race in events we can’t foresee. With the Golden Globes and the Critics Choice...

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Golden Globes Predictions: The Sacred Wall’s Beat The Guru Golden Globes Competition

Break out the copious amounts of booze and slur the names of winners, it’s time for the 75th Annual Golden Globe Awards! This Sunday, Seth Meyers will be leading us through the first major award of the season, which means that it’s time for the...

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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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24th Screen Actors Guild Predictions

The Critics Choice and Golden Globes have finally spoken, and we have a general idea of what’s a contender and what isn’t, but let’s be clear: none of these matter in terms of what the Academy goes for. None of those people are voting at the...

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75th Golden Globe Nomination Predictions

Tomorrow the Oscar race will really kick into gear, as the Golden Globes will announce their 75th nominations for the best of film and television. And while we still don’t know who they are or what they want, by studying the past and predicting...

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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...