Category: 98th Oscars
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Predictions: Directors Guild
The first major test of the balance between One Battle and Sinners. DIRECTORS GUILD OF AMERICA AWARDS Legend: Winner Predictions: Wesley Lovell Pete Patrick Thomas LaTourrette Runner-Up Predictions: Wesley Lovell Pete Patrick Thomas LaTourrette Best Director Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After Another WL PP TL Ryan Coogler – Sinners WL PP TL Guillermo…
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Predictions: Society of Composers & Lyricists
The group that lines up with the Original Song and Original Score category announces their winners tomorrow. SOCIETY OF COMPOSERS & LYRICISTS AWARDS Legend: Winner Predictions: Wesley Lovell Pete Patrick Thomas LaTourrette Runner-Up Predictions: Wesley Lovell Pete Patrick Thomas LaTourrette Best Original Song for a Dramatic or Documentary Visual Media Production Dear Me – Diane…
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Calendar Preview: February 2026
Precursors to the Academy Awards come in many different forms and they can appear all year from festivals and national awards to critics groups and other organizations. Here’s what’s coming up this month. FEBRUARY Festivals Thursday, Feb. 12 – Berlin Film Festival (Festival) (Official) Nominations Tuesday, Feb. 10 – Publicists (Individuals) (Nominations) (Official) Thursday, Feb.…
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Predictions: First Winners
We kick things off today with our first winner predictions for the year. Legend: Winner Predictions: Wesley Lovell Pete Patrick Thomas LaTourrette Runner-Up Predictions: Wesley Lovell Pete Patrick Thomas LaTourrette Wesley Lovell: Our first predictions will be interesting. Pete Patrick: There were no big surprises in the nominations other than the failure of Wicked: For…
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98th Oscar Nominations
Let’s start with the top news most people will be hearing, Sinners has set a new record for most nominations in Oscar history, topping the previous record of 14 by two. That means even without the Best Casting category being new, the film would have set the record. Delroy Lindo’s performance in Supporting Actor and…
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2026 Nominations Predictions: January
Tomorrow’s the big day. After months of predictions and critics awards, it’s time to see how much the Academy agrees with the critics and prognosticators. We agreed fully on only two categories: Animated Feature and Actor. Beyond that, we are largely in agreement with several small discrepancies in each category, so predictable? Maybe. KEY: Appears…
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98th Oscar Morning: Final Nomination Thoughts
Tomorrow morning, the nominations for the 98th Academy Awards will be announced. They’ll be revealed by Danielle Brooks and Lewis Pullman. Want to follow along tomorrow. See the checklist at the end of this article and mark off the selections as they are revealed. Before the nominations are announced, I wanted to put down in…
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The Contenders 25/26: December Retrospective/February Forecast
We’re looking at Oscar contenders as they release and trying to determine which films have potential and which have wasted it. Let’s look back at the month of December and see what films succeeded and faltered. Then we’ll look forward to February and see what has some potential. Wesley Lovell’s Thoughts December Retrospective Back in…
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Predictions: Golden Globe Awards
The second televised awards show of the season and the last for a while, the Globes have changed a lot since they were spun off from the now-defunct Hollywood Foreign Press Association. They have certainly come a more appropriately international organization but their Oscar prognosticative capabilities are in the air for now. We’ll see how…
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Eligible Film List for 98th Oscars
All of the primary contenders for Best Picture show up on the 201-film eligibility list, so no surprises. 317 FEATURE FILMS IN CONTENTION FOR 98TH ACADEMY AWARDS® 201 FEATURE FILMS IN CONTENTION FOR BEST PICTURE CATEGORY LOS ANGELES, CA – Three hundred seventeen feature films are eligible for the 98th Academy Awards®, the Academy of…