This is a complete list of our predicted winners at the 2013 Academy Awards.
Despite the hysteria, it may not be appropriate yet to call a time of death on the decades and decades’ worth of precedent that will be shattered when Argo wins Best Picture.
As you might have noticed from our previous Oscar posts, one of the hottest topics among we Slant prognosticators is just how many trophies Argo is capable of collecting.
Subtlety isn’t a quality that dignifies the nominees in this category.
It’s at this point we had to ask ourselves, “Is Argo really going to end up a two-Oscar Best Picture winner?”
Let’s try to rid our minds of the deplorable notion that Spielberg and Lee are contending for an award that belongs to Affleck.
Typically, there’s at least one Oscar-nominated score that stands out as unique, with memorable flourishes that push it ahead as the frontrunner.
All right, all right, all right. We should’ve known.
By now, most awards watchers are aware of Tony Kushner’s grand task of translating Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Team of Rivals.
Starting tomorrow, check back daily as we predict the winner in every Oscar category.
We’re sensing that, once again, Best Picture will fall just shy of 10 nominees.
The surefire frontrunners are Kathryn Bigelow, Ben Affleck, and Steven Spielberg.
With all due respect to the gentlemen in contention, this year’s likely Supporting Actor crop has shaped up to be a snooze.
The stage bred many of 2012’s finest film adaptations.
In comparison with movies like the recent Taken 2, Argo is more about suspense than it is about action.
Though it boasts the strongest pedigree of all 2012 awards contenders, Lincoln doesn’t play like obvious Oscar bait while you’re watching it.
The film emerged from Toronto as virtually every pundit’s Best Picture frontrunner.
Time will tell if the Academy’s newest rule adjustment will throw off the mojo of latecomers like Les Misérables.