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Awards Season / Oscar Predictions Update: It’s Mikey Madison vs Demi Moore in Best Actress as ‘Anora’ Seeks to Hold Off ‘Conclave’ in Best Picture with Ballots Turned In
We have just over a week and change until the Academy Awards, ladies and gentlemen. Oscar ballots were due this week, so voting has come to an end. March 2nd is just around the corner. All that’s left in terms of precursors is the Screen Actors Guild Awards, which we’ll be talking a bit about […] More
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Awards Season / Oscar Predictions Update: ‘Anora’ is One Big Guild Win Away From Ending This Race
Happy Valentine’s Day, folks! Hopefully you’re all celebrating love today. If any film right now is feeling the love, it’s Sean Baker‘s Anora. This weekend prior saw it pull arguably three upsets at the culmination of the critics prize section of awards season in the Critics Choice Awards, as well as two of the most […] More
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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: 2025 is Here and So Are Final Golden Globe Picks
Can you believe it’s 2025? Of course, in the world of Oscar season, that means we’re now just weeks away from the Academy Award nominations. Consider how nuts that is, but time flies. As such, it feels like the moment to really get serious about predictions. Plus, we have something happening this weekend that functions […] More
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Awards Season / Oscar Predictions Update: Factoring in the Shortlist Finalists
Earlier this week, the Academy released a slate of ten categories in which we now have an Oscar shortlist to work off of. Those shortlists can be seen here, while Myles and I discussed them at length during the newest episode of the Awards Radar Podcast here. Today, I want to talk a little bit […] More
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Awards Season / Oscar Predictions Update: Which Films Are Faring Best During the Early Stages of the Precursor Announcements?
The season sure changed in a hurry, didn’t it? What once was a completely wide open awards season, without many frontrunners at all, now appears to have set up a few power players. I’m going to look at how that appears right now, seen through the lens of the precursor season. Plus, it was an […] More
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Awards Season / Oscar Predictions Update: Where Do We Stand After ‘A Complete Unknown’ Has Revealed Itself and the Precursors Have Kicked Off?
Folks, we’re in it now. Not only have we seen every film in contention for Academy Award nominations/wins, the precursor season has gotten underway. We’re a long way away from knowing who and what will be cited by Oscar, but as the season progresses, more and more will be known. So, what better time is […] More
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Awards Season / Oscar Predictions Update: Something ‘Wicked’ This Way Comes for the Academy?
Folks, we’re almost at the point where cards are on the table. There’s almost nothing left to be seen, the precursors have begun a tiny bit, and it’s November. So, we should know more about the awards season, shouldn’t we? It really does appear like the season is in a continual state of stasis here […] More
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Awards Season / Oscar Predictions Update: Festival Season is (Almost) Over and We’re Running Out of Unseen Contenders
Well, we almost have a full slate of information on our hands. The big film festivals are all in the rearview mirror, nearly all of the movies hoping for Academy Award consideration have screened, and the precursors are on the horizon. It’s the middle of October, headed towards Halloween, so it’s very much an inflection […] More