Category: Predictions

While a handful of precursors have already announced, the flood of critics prizes and guild nominations is just around the corner. Before those organizations start throwing wrenches into the works, let’s see what our prognosticators see as the trends heading into the rest of the year. KEY: Appears on Four Lists Appears on Three Lists…

The calm before the storm. October and most of November, we’ll have very little movement in terms of Oscar contenders other than films potentially moving into the 2024 season. Right now, things are pretty stable and there’s nothing between now and the first precursor awards that will change the calculus, so don’t expect more than…

With Venice, Toronto, and Telluride now in the rearview mirror, we have a much better view of what Oscar season will be about. Here are out latest updates. This month, we’re adding Production Design and Costume Design. Next month, we’ll be adding everything except Original Song, International Feature, and the documentary and short film categories.…

And here we are, the last predictions of the summer and the final set before the trio of fall festivals that will either confirm what we’ve been thinking or redefine everything. Toronto, Venice, and Telluride will tell us a lot and we’ll be back in September with our first predictions post-festival. But for now, have…

Once again, our prognosticators have been hard at work putting together revised lists. There aren’t a lot of changes this month, but enough to create some interesting new match-ups. Further, we’ve added the Animated Feature and Visual Effects categories to expand our lists to ten categories. Next month, we’ll add another two. They will probably…

June Predictions We’re back with our first updated predictions of the year. There wasn’t a lot of movement, but one film that suddenly pulled into the competition is Cannes winner The Zone of Interest, which features in several new predictions this month. We’re taking the categories from our last slate in May and added the…

As is our tradition, May begins our first predictive look at the year’s Oscar hopefuls. A lot of factors will play into how well our guesses hold up. Expect many of them to fall by the wayside as the year progresses and new contenders to rise into their places. Tripp was unable to participate in…