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Awards Season / Oscar Predictions Update: Factoring in the ‘Emilia Pérez’ Fallout As Guilds Begin to Announce
For much of the season, it felt as though predictions only needed to be updated in dribs and drabs. Well, that’s about to change. Not only do we have notable precursors coming today and this weekend, we also had in the last few days a real curveball thrown in the whole Emilia Pérez situation. So, […] More
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Awards Season / Oscar Predictions Update: A First Crack at Phase Two Picks After the Nominations
Welcome to Phase Two! Last week, the Academy Award nominations were revealed, ending Phase One and giving us a whole new crop of Oscar nominees. That same day, my predictions were obviously updated, which is perhaps a sign of some sort of compulsive disorder, but also a signal that we’ve entered a new stage of […] More
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Awards Season / Oscar Predictions Update: Final Picks as the Academy Gets Set to End Phase One on Thursday Morning
We have come to the end of Phase One ladies and gentlemen. On Thursday morning, the Oscar nominations will be revealed to us. The Academy has finished voting, so all that’s left to do is wait. Well, wait and also…make my final predictions! So, today, I present to you where I’ve landed in regards to […] More
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Awards Season / Oscar Predictions Update: The Academy is Now Voting As Campaigning Has Come to a (Temporary?) Halt
This past week has been unlike any really in the history of awards seasons. The entire nature of the season has been upended, with campaigning and the like on pause, due to the wildfires currently devastating parts of Los Angeles. Rightly, that’s what is on everyone’s mind, whether you’re in LA or not. Awards Radar […] More
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Awards Season / Oscar Predictions Update: Final Picks Before the Academy Award Nominations Are Announced
Ladies and gentlemen, we’ve reached the end of Phase One. The Academy has closed voting, which means that membership had their say. Oscar ballots have been tabulated, so the Academy Award nominations are looming large on Tuesday morning. As such, I’ve not just updated predictions (you can hear about some of my thought process on […] More
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Awards Season / Oscar Predictions Update: The Guilds Have Entered the Chat with Academy Voting Now Open
What a difference a week makes. Last week, we were talking about how the Golden Globes were coming up, not to pay them too much mind, and to heed the upcoming guild announcements. Well, the Globes are in the rearview mirror, guilds are announcing, Critics Choice is on Sunday, and Oscar voting has officially begun, […] 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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Awards Season / Oscar Predictions Update: The Academy Has Begun Now That The Guilds Have Chimed In
What a week it has been, especially in terms of the precursor season. Sure, there have been precursors that I’ve warned you not to put much stock into, but the major Guilds have chimed in, really giving us a look at what Oscar could end up doing. Moreover, voting for the Academy Awards began yesterday, […] More
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Awards Season / Oscar Predictions Update: More Precursors Are About to Chime In With Uncertainty Reigning Supreme
Normally, I like to update my predictions for a Friday. However, a few things kept that from happening this week. One was just life-related, as I was flying out to California from New York for the Critics Choice Awards, which happens to fall on my birthday. So, while Sunday will be happy birthday to me, […] More
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Awards Season / Oscar Predictions Update: The Post-SAG Fallout
Last week, I set the stage (here) for what might be happening with the evolving second phase of the awards season. It was written with the Screen Actors Guild Awards only a few days out. Now, with it in the rearview mirror, we have SAG’s impact, as well as the rest of the precursors, to […] More
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Awards Season / Oscar Predictions Update: Precursors Galore…What Do We Make Of It All?
We live in a very different cinematic reality today than we did early yesterday morning. Not only have nearly all of the precursors chimed in with their nominations…Oscar voting has begun. Yes, the Academy has started to have their membership put virtual pen to virtual paper, selecting their top films and performances. I spent a […] More
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Awards Season / Oscar Predictions Update: Who the Hell is Winning Best Actress?
Like everyone else, I’m puzzled by the Best Actress race. Just a week ago, it seemed like the race was pretty steady. Hell, all the races were. It was just a question of whether Nomadland was going to win all of its nominated categories or just most of them. Then, the Screen Actors Guild got […] More















