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.
Even the least successful of this year’s Oscar nominees for animated film avoids settling for mere ersatz babysitter status.
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.
This is a complete list of our predicted winners at the 2015 Academy Awards.
Tempted though I might be to end an Oscar season I began so long ago quoting Into the Woods’s Witch by dropping another choice lyric from “Last Midnight”, there’s a legitimate three-way race to call this year.
First, praise be to the brave Oscar pundits who have Bradley Cooper in their crosshairs.
The gynophobic evidence is there and it’s damning.
We could make this one easy on ourselves and buy the narrative that every film nominated for best picture will win at least one Oscar next Sunday.
In what’s become an annual tradition, last weekend’s Writers Guild Awards weren’t much of a trial heat for the Oscars.
Even as Boyhood steamrolled the critics groups, even as it dominated the Golden Globes, we had our doubts about its frontrunner status here and in best picture.
The debate surrounding the allegedly intentional inscrutability of Interstellar’s dialogue is unquestionably more of a liability in the sound mixing category, where clarity and precision is the whole point.