Down to the Wire – One Last Look at Split Guilds, Split Oscars
The Gurus of Gold and Gold Derby have put out their predictions. No one is predicting American Hustle to win in Best Picture, which is really the only logical split vote scenario, being that the SAG...
View ArticleCritics Choice Preview and Predictions (bump)
This year’s race has kind of been all over the place. The big movies that came in the fall haven’t yet turned into the massive hits people were expecting them to be. Interstellar, despite it having a...
View ArticleChristmas Chat with Tom O’Neil on Predicting the Oscars
As a treat for you readers, I interviewed the king of Oscar predicting, the one who started it all way back when, Tom O’Neil. Gold Derby has been revamped and improved continually over the years, and...
View ArticleAwardsDaily’s Final Oscar Predictions
It’s all come down to this, my friends. A preferential ballot for all too enabled Academy voters. It’s hard to know how this thing will go. There are so many conflicting narratives that run through...
View ArticleAwardsDaily Tops Predictor at Gold Derby
I guess all that chart building was not for nothing. My high score, I think, had to do with a last minute tip from a friend about Salt of the Earth in documentary, a preference for Mr. Turner in some...
View ArticleOscar Predictions Friday – What We Know and What We Don’t
The first thing we know is that there isn’t a lot to know. We know that Spotlight is a slam dunk for Oscar nominations across the board. It is sitting pretty in the Argo slot, underestimated by pundits...
View ArticlePredictions Friday – Still Guessing at What We Don’t Know for Sure
2015 is providing us with an odd awards season because there seem to be so many different narratives with no clear leaders in any aspect of the Oscar race. We are one week away from any serious voting...
View ArticleDirectors Guild Preview and Predictions
Update: I made a mistake! DGA nominations are going to be announced January 12, 2016, not January 7th as listed below. That means they will be announced long after the Academy’s ballot deadline. The...
View ArticlePredictions Friday: There Still is No Captain of This Ship
Even when people complain about what a bad year it’s been for film — and believe it or not, some do — the same films often trip off their tongue. “Except,” they say, “for Spotlight.” Usually they...
View ArticleWGA Preview and Quickie Predictions
The Writers Guild has been a less influential guild of late, in terms of Oscar forecasting, because so many of the potential frontrunners often get left off their list because of eligibility rules....
View ArticlePredictions Friday – Golden Globes Edition and How About Them BAFTAS?
A few people have asked me why I changed my Golden Globe predictions at Gold Derby from The Big Short, the film I’m predicting to possibly win Best Picture at the Oscars (give or take a Spotlight) to...
View ArticlePredictions Friday – Now the DGA Will Decide
As we head into the weekend, we’re at our last stop before Oscar ballots are mailed out to voters. It’s been a season full of twists and turns. It has been unpredictable in many ways, with the final...
View ArticlePredictions Friday: That Movie Is Going to Win Best Picture! Okay, But Which...
You know it’s a crazy year when even the pundits can’t agree on which movie is going to win Best Picture. Usually by now we have a consensus. If there is any disagreement, usually it’s over one or two...
View ArticlePaddy’s Prediction Pointers
Uh-oh. That’s it. It’s all over now. The Academy has voted, ballots have been handed in, and Price Waterhouse Coopers have begun the counting. On Sunday night, live from the Dolby Theatre, a whole...
View ArticleStatsgasm – Final Predictions for the 88th Academy Awards (Updated with...
Okay, friends, we’re definitely in crunch time for this year’s Oscars, and I am pleased to finally (belatedly) reveal the findings of Awards Daily’s Statsgasm prediction models for the 88th Academy...
View ArticleAwardsDaily’s 9th Annual Big Bad Predictions Chart, Preliminary Version
We’re compiling our predictions for our massive annual chart. This is a work in progress and we’re still tinkering but we thought we’d get it up sooner rather than later. MAIN PREDICTIONS | TECH...
View ArticleSAG Ensemble Possibilities
The Screen Actors Guild has changed a lot since they merged with the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. Its membership grew to 150,000 and many journalists and TV personalities were...
View ArticleStatsgasm: Final Predictions for the 89th Academy Awards
Welcome back, friendos. Although I had hoped to get these done earlier in the week, I’m very happy to present the results of Awards Daily’s Statsgasm prediction models for the 89th Academy Awards. Just...
View ArticleEarly Oscar Predictions: The Screenplays
Best Picture and Best Screenplay nominations tend to be united. Of the eight or nine films up for Best Picture, you can bet that many of those will also be featured in the screenplay category. It makes...
View ArticleAwardsDaily Oscar Squad Releases First Round Predictions
Do you like the name Oscar squad? Or is too Taylor Swift? We’ve decided to make up our own round up of predictions, which we will do as often as we an get it together. This is the AD and the ADTV team...
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