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Awards Season / Oscar Predictions Update: The Summer is Ending and Fall Film Festival Season is Beginning (With Cinematic Casualties)
Folks, we’re here. The fall film festival season is literally just days away. So much of the early speculation will give way to analysis and reviews of the movies in question. A couple of days from now, I depart for the Telluride Film Festival. Once I get back from that, it’s basically a 48 hour […] More
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Year in Advance Oscar Predictions: Barbenheimer is Here and Both Films Could Be Major Awards Contenders
This weekend, Barbenheimer is upon us. Yes, both Barbie and Oppenheimer have hit screens. The two films will be forever intertwined not just because they both are out on the same day, but because they both could be real Oscar threats. They come about it differently, as one is a surprise potential player, while the […] More
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Year in Advance Oscar Predictions: Could This Be a Season with No Major Blockbuster Contenders in Best Picture?
When The Dark Knight missed out on a Best Picture nomination, it sure seemed like The Academy panicked. Expanding the category to ten nominees was clearly meant to open the door for bigger films to crack the lineup. We saw things like Avatar, District 9, Inception, Toy Story 3, and Up get in. Then, when […] More
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Year in Advance Oscar Predictions: The Cannes Film Festival Has Launched Some Early Awards Contenders
Last week, the 76th Cannes Film Festival came to a close. We have our winners, led by Anatomy of a Fall (detailed here), and that always marks an interesting point in the year. Prior to Cannes, it’s pretty silly to talk in anything more than purely hypotheticals about potential Academy Award nominees. After the festival, […] More
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Year in Advance Oscar Predictions: Truly, Anything is Possible With The Academy Now (Redux)
Folks, after a much longer than usual break (last year’s small one seems like no time, by comparison), it’s time to officially begin the initial conversation about the next awards season. Go figure, a bit of good timing shows up here, as the Cannes Film Festival just announced their lineup yesterday. As I said last […] More
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Year in Advance Oscar Predictions Are Coming…Soon
I know. I know. Usually, by now I’ve not only already posted my year in advance predictions for the Academy Awards, it’s possible that I’ve already updated them. This year? Not so much. This time around, I still haven’t finished them, though I will say that they’re in progress and could go up as soon […] More
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Awards Radar Community: What Are Your Boldest Oscar Predictions?
Tomorrow, the Academy Awards are being held. You know, in case you somehow weren’t aware. You’ve seen my Oscar predictions, I’m sure, but today, that’s not the focus. Today, it’s about you. For this weekend’s Awards Radar Community Question, we’re asking about your picks. In fact, we’re not only asking about who and what you’re […] More
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Awards Season / Oscar Predictions Update: Final Picks as It All Comes Down to This for The Academy
It all comes down to this. On Sunday evening, the Academy Awards will be held. Literally a year’s worth of hypotheticals, pondering, and questions will result in our newest crop of Oscar winners. Almost exactly a year after it releases in theaters, Everything Everywhere All At Once is poised to do very well. Best Picture […] More
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Awards Radar Podcast #127: Joey Muses on His Final Oscar Predictions While Myles and Steve Give Their Picks!
Welcome back to the Awards Radar Podcast. In each episode, Editor Joey Magidson (that’s me!) will be joined by some of the staff of Awards Radar to talk about the latest in film, television, and entertainment in general. The show will obviously have an awards season slant to it, but we won’t forget about other […] More
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Awards Season / Oscar Predictions Update: The Academy is About to Make Some Easy Picks and Some Real Close Calls With Final Voting Underway
As of yesterday, the Academy has begun voting! Yes, Oscar votes are officially being entered into the ledger, as it were. The entire season has been reduced to clicking a link for members of the Academy. The pomp and circumstance of the Oscars is now nine days away as of this publishing. Can you believe […] More
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Awards Season / Oscar Predictions Update: All Eyes on PGA and SAG After BAFTA
This weekend, it stands to reason that a good portion of the Oscar season will be decided. Truly, no weekend is more pivotal to the season, aside from the weekend of the actual Academy Awards ceremony, than this one. The Producers Guild of America and the Screen Actors Guild are giving out their prizes, which […] More
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Awards Season / Oscar Predictions Update: The State of the Race After Nominations
The dust has settled. Some (but not all) of the hot takes have cooled. The Academy Award nominations are almost two weeks old now, so it’s high time to dig in and tinker with those predictions. Now, realistically, not much changes when you do a first post-nomination update. So much of Phase Two of the […] More
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