Category: Predictions
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Predictions: Costume Designers Guild
The Costume Designers Guild releasing midweek isn’t unusual this year but their choices might give us an idea how strong some films are going into the Oscars. COSTUME DESIGNERS GUILDAWARDS Legend: Winner Predictions: Wesley Lovell Pete Patrick Thomas LaTourrette Runner-Up Predictions: Wesley Lovell Pete Patrick Thomas LaTourrette Best Period Costume Design The Book of Clarence…
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Path to Oscar 2024: Live Action Short
We’re looking at each individual category for the Oscars and what our thoughts are going into the final stretch. We’ll adjust our thoughts based on the precursor associated with this category, Live Action Short. Below are our predictions in Best Live Action Short. Best Live Action Short Winner Predictions A Lien Anuja (WL O) I’m…
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Path to Oscar 2024: International Feature
We’re looking at each individual category for the Oscars and what our thoughts are going into the final stretch. Below are our predictions in Best International Feature. Best International Feature Winner Predictions Emilia Pérez (WL O) (PP O) Flow The Girl with the Needle I’m Still Here (TL P) [New] The Seed of the Sacred…
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Predictions: Set Decorators Society 2024
The Set Decorators Society earns the prize for going first in the post-nominations landscape. Sure the Globes have already happened but the American Cinema Editors postponed due to the L.A. fires. SDSA was far enough out that they are still going to be able to keep their date while ACE moves to after the Oscars.…
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Predictions: First 97th Oscars Winners
Now that we’ve had time to review the nominations and get a reading on the landscape, here are our first winner predictions of the 97th Oscars. (Editor’s Note: Thomas’ commentary has been added) INTRODUCTIONS Wesley Lovell: I did well predicting most categories except for the documentary and short film ones. I took a bath there.…
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2024 Nomination Predictions: Our Statistics
Based on our nominations predictions, here’s how we did. Let’s start out with this year’s winner, Thomas La Tourrette, who managed 97 correct predictions out of 120. Pete Patrick came in second with 86 with Wesley Lovell following closely with 85. We agreed on a lot of predictions, but there were still several nominations that…
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2024 Nominations Predictions: FINAL
Although many races are very difficult to call, we have a surprising number of identical predictions and several that are close to identical. Best Animated Feature, Actor, Adapted Screenplay, and Production Design seem to be locked according to our prognosticators. The ones that are pretty close to locked are: Best Directing, Actress, Original Screenplay, Original…
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97th Oscar Morning: Final Nomination Thoughts
Tomorrow morning, the nominations for the 96th Academy Awards will be announced. They’ll be revealed by Bottoms star Rachel Sennott and SNL alum and Wicked supporting actor Bowen Yang. Before the nominations are announced, I wanted to put down in writing my thoughts on this year’s categories and how I came to my choices for…
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2024 Nominations Predictions: December
With many precursors announced (only one industry one, the editors) and the shortlists recently revealed, these are closing in on our final predictions. Please note that due to time constraints with the shortlists releasing yesterday afternoon, the precursors and changes pages of the website have not been updated but may be completed later today. For…
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2024 Nominations Predictions: November
Our final predictions for the preponderance of critics announce their nominees. We’ve seen a lot of changes and while there seems to be some coalescence among us, there are some categories we’re still very far apart on. Our next predictions will be releasing just after the shortlists are announced so we may be a bit…