Oscar Predictions 2023: She Said, Then Everyone Said “Me Too”
The Maria Schrader film She Said has just screened at the New York Film Festival (I will be seeing it this AM). The reviews are good if not great, and that will certainly help the film as it launches...
View ArticleRyan Casselman’s Final 2023 Oscar Predictions Video
Our pal Ryan Casselman has posted a new process of attempting to predict ten nominees. His videos are always entertaining and informative. I’m curious to see if this new method will produce accurate...
View ArticleAmerican Socity of Cinematographers (ASC) Predictions!
Tomorrow, the ASC will ring with their top five of the year. We didn’t have time to run a contest or do much of a preview. But here are our predictions! ASC Predictions Oppenheimer – Sasha Stone, Ryan...
View Article2024 Producers Guild Preview and Predictions
Tomorrow, we’ll finally get our last piece of the Big Guild puzzle. The PGA is one of the most influential groups, needless to say, because they also have ten nominees and they also use the ranked...
View Article2024 Oscar Predictions — Can We Finally Get a Sweep With Oppenheimer?
After almost 25 years covering the Oscar race, I have never seen a movie more worthy of an awards sweep than Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer. This movie should win Picture, Director, Supporting Actor,...
View ArticleCritics Choice Preview and Predictions!
The Critics Choice awards will be tonight at 7pm, LIVE from Santa Monica: The ceremony airs live on the CW at 7 p.m. ET/PT. Cord-cutters can stream the proceedings online via DirecTV Stream, Sling TV,...
View ArticleBAFTA Preview and Predictions – Will Oppenheimer Sweep?
The BAFTAs are happening this weekend. We will be posting a prediction podcast in a few hours but perhaps a quick analysis of how we think this might go, with predictions. The BAFTAs are usually hard...
View Article2024 Oscar Predictions — How Things Look Before the British Clean the Slate
This Sunday, we will see what’s true and what is only an illusion from our perch right now. There is a consensus, more or less, that has emerged, but it could be re-configured based on how the BAFTAs...
View Article2024 Oscar Predictions: The Weekend That Will Decide Everything
Tomorrow, the Screen Actors Guild will hand out awards that very likely will decide the acting races, barring some freak occurrence at the Oscars. Hey, they sometimes happen. Then Sunday night will...
View ArticleAwardsDaily’s Big Bad Predictions Chart is Up
Thanks to Marshall Flores for slogging through all of these Predictions. As you know, it’s a work in progress. Some predictions will change over the next few days. If you have a website and want to add...
View ArticleAD Predicts! Awards Daily Users Predict the Oscars
Well, the results are finally in for our inaugural AD predicts. We will check in every so often as we head into the thick of Oscar season. This is just the first go around. As with the Gate Crashers,...
View ArticleNextGen Oscarwatcher’s Golden Globe Predictions
To finish off the individual analysis of certain categories (excluding the shorts), I felt it was best to conclude with Original Score and Original Song, two races that feel wide open, but with little...
View ArticleCritics Choice Preview and Predictions
The Critics Choice will announce their nominations for the 2025 Oscar year. I say “they” but it’s really “we,” as I am a member of the Critics Choice which, I must say, makes watching movies during...
View ArticleNextGen Oscarwatcher: A Rundown of the Race post Golden Globe and CCA –...
For the first time since mid-September, it finally seems as if the awards race has shifted, and more information has made itself known. With the Golden Globe nominations and the Critics Choice...
View Article2025 Oscars: Best Actor Narrows to Three – Fiennes, Brody and Chalamet
The Best Actor race has traditionally been among the most important drivers of the Best Picture race. That has changed somewhat since the “Great Awokening.” Now that Hollywood is starting to thaw out...
View ArticleNextGen Oscarwatcher: The Acting Categories
Continuing from last week’s post, it seems fair to analyze the remaining above-the-line categories before proceeding to the below-the-line ones, etc. Best Actor Akin to other categories, a solid top...
View Article2025 Oscar Predictions: The Gate Crashers Latest Take
The Gatecrashers have a fresh new website, if you haven’t seen it yet. We’re just getting started and will be posting stories and podcasts there featuring all of our pundits, the-gatecrashers.com. We...
View Article2025 Golden Globe Predictions
Update: added Best Actress, Musical/Comedy. Sorry about that. I assembled a few of our Gate Crashers to lay down our predictions for Sunday’s Golden Globes. The truth is that any film an win and it’s...
View ArticleNextGen Oscarwatcher: The Golden Guilds
Originally, I intended to attempt to continue analyzing each category, their frontrunners, and challengers, but considering how fast-moving the season is(plus after covering the above-the-line...
View Article2025 Oscar Predictions – A Best Picture Race in Search of a Frontrunner
No one wants to think about, much less talk about, the Oscars right now. There has been too much devastation and loss to think about anything as silly as film awards. And yet, the show must go on....
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