The common refrain this season has been one of despair, of theatrical death by dearth.
For now, here’s to blind hope.
You know the drill: No guild is better at predicting the winner of the Best Picture Oscar than the Directors Guild of America.
Like Nixon said, when Harvey Milk stabs Dan White in the back and all but blackmails George Moscone, it’s not illegal.
There are two ways to spin this category.
For the first time, Slant has decided to tackle nomination predictions in the screenplay categories. Why, you ask?
The noise that Oscar pundits make throughout the year feels as influential to this rat race as the awards handed out by critics.
Call it a showdown between the two wannabes.
It’ll be a close one, but we say: En Ra Ha!
What a long, strange week it’s been.
This is a complete list of our predicted winners at the 2008 Academy Awards.
Though we’ve kicked EW’s Dave Karger’s teeth in when it comes to the overall number of correct predictions for the last few years, our track record has unfortunately not extended to the Best Picture category.
When scrutinizing this race, pundits rarely discuss precedent.
I don’t mean to speak for Ed here, but this wouldn’t be the first time we’ve started pulling back and rethinking the momentum of our day-by-day Oscar-winner forecasts.
We’ll give Fisk and Erickson an edge here, not only for having won the ADG award in the period category but for representing one of this year’s Oscar frontrunners.
In all the hubbub about Kevin O’Connell’s 20th nomination, no one has brought up the fact that the sound mixer’s co-nominee for Transformers, Greg P. Russell, has 12 winless nominations under his belt as well.
These four documentary shorts may account for the richest slate of nominees this year.
Not every tech category where No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood are facing off will settle in either of their favor.
Juno, they tell us, is a possible spoiler in the Best Picture race, but few seem to think its director stands a chance of winning here.
If we learned anything last year, it’s that the more independent-minded the nominations, the more disappointing and reactionary the likely winner.
Yes, we know Daniel Day-Lewis has this one in the bag.