We may as well just light it up and acquiesce to the inevitable all-consuming blast.
That Mad Max: Fury Road is only one of five films to ever be nominated in all seven technical categories can’t hurt it’s chances in the visual effects category.
After both losing to Daft Punk two years ago, Kendrick Lamar and Taylor Swift face off again in Album of the Year.
Every time we think we’re finally settling into a pattern for Record of the Year, Grammy reverses course.
For Ennio Morricone, being hitched up to Quentin Tarantino’s nostalgia-flattering métier, will be enough to ensure his first competitive Oscar.
The sentiment of “How many Grammys can we give Taylor Swift?” hangs thick in the air.
Leonardo DiCaprio will win an Oscar because “being right” is the modus operandi of the average pundit’s investment in any given year’s Oscar race.
In recent months, Meghan Trainor’s star has waned, leaving room for a surprise victor in Best New Artist at the Grammys.
Even the least successful of this year’s Oscar nominees for animated film avoids settling for mere ersatz babysitter status.
We’re kicking off our Grammy predictions with our picks in some of the smaller genre categories.
We would be remiss if we didn’t point out that rumors have circulated about Son of Saul almost failing to make the Academy’s shortlist.
In the style categories, Oscar voters have almost always preferred candidates who show and tell.
We must obligatorily forecast this year’s trophy for the production design with the mostest.
Brie Larson, in Room, fights back tooth and claw from the brink just as much as the frontrunner in the Oscar race for best actor.
The false narrative about the peril posed by The Revenant’s shooting conditions will work against it in categories where the film is most worthy of acclaim.
It’s to the Oscars’ shame that they couldn’t nominate a pair of movies each containing multitudes that would give Baskin-Robbins a cold sweat.
Sometimes a nominated film is so formally striking that it has the vanguard vote wrapped up by itself.
Odds continue to favor the snarkiest candidate, so we’re predicting it’ll be West Bank Story all over again.
It doesn’t hurt that Sanjay’s Super Team is gentle in spirit, emotionally coherent, and the most widely seen short in the category.
Every year, Oscar bloggers put on a pretty good show in pointing out how, unlike all previous years, this year is truly a wild, unpredictable free-for-all.
We have no doubt that we’ll be miffed by how some of these categories shake out on Sunday night.