Oscar Predictions: Best Picture
The Nominees Avatar The Blind Side District 9 An Education The Hurt Locker Inglourious Basterds Precious A Serious Man Up Up in the Air The expansion of the category has had some impact on the talk around the Oscars, mostly negative. It would appear that you could easily eliminate five films from the top category [...]
Oscar Predictions: Best Director
The Nominees James Cameron for Avatar Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker Quentin Tarantino for Inglourious Basterds Lee Daniels for Precious Jason Reitman for Up in the Air This category seems to break down into three categories as regards the chance each has of winning the prize. In the last category, essentially the no-hopers, are [...]
Oscar Predictions: Best Actor
The Nominees Jeff Bridges for Crazy Heart George Clooney for Up in the Air Colin Firth for A Single Man Morgan Freeman for Invictus Jeremy Renner for The Hurt Locker This one feels like it’s been complicated in recent weeks, too. I still don’t think Jeremy Renner will have the momentum to take the prize [...]
Oscar Predictions: Best Actress
The Nominees Sandra Bullock for The Blind Side Helen Mirren for The Last Station Carey Mulligan for An Education Gabourey Sidibe for Precious Meryl Streep for Julie & Julia Okay, let’s get going. This undoubtedly to be the most interesting category of the lot, if interesting for you is having four possible winners. A couple [...]
Oscar Predictions: Best Supporting Actor
The Nominees Matt Damon for Invictus Woody Harrelson for The Messenger Christopher Plummer for The Insider Stanley Tucci for The Lovely Bones Christoph Waltz for Inglourious Basterds A few months ago, this would have been a serious race between two of the contenders. Really, up until anyone with a Twitter or blog saw The Lovely [...]
Oscar Predictions: Best Supporting Actress
The Nominees Penelope Cruz for Nine Vera Farmiga for Up in the Air Maggie Gyllenhaal for Crazy Heart Anna Kendrick for Up in the Air Mo’Nique for Precious Filling up three paragraphs on this category is going to prove difficult, hence the start of this section being guarded with meta-waffle about the difficulty of writing [...]
Oscar Predictions: Best Original Screenplay
The Nominees Mark Boal for The Hurt Locker Quentin Tarantino for Inglourious Basterds Alessandro Camon and Oren Moverman for The Messenger Ethan Coen and Joel Coen for A Serious Man Pete Docter and Bob Peterson for Up Having taken home the BAFTA, it would seem that The Hurt Locker has positioned itself for a potential [...]
Oscar Predictions: Best Adapted Screenplay
The Nominees Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell for District 9 Nick Hornby for An Education Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Ianucci and Tony Roche for In the Loop Geoffrey Fletcher for Precious Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner for Up in the Air There was at least a degree of surprise at the BAFTAs this year [...]
Oscar Predictions: Best Animated Feature Film
The Nominees Coraline Fantastic Mr Fox The Princess and the Frog The Secret of Kells Up I don’t know that there is even much point in putting anything after the jump for this category. Though other studios in the animation world continue to put out good stuff for the most part, absolutely nobody is close [...]
Our BAFTA Predictions
You can listen to the podcast on which we ‘discussed’ these here but, for the purposes of finality, here are the predictions we made for this year’s BAFTAs. Also, make sure to follow us Live Tweeting the show this evening.
Razzies Thoughts…
It’s only fair to talk about another awards ceremony at this time of year, one which has managed to maintain its staunch anti-commercial stance and has never sacrificed its history to allow higher-grossing films into its top categories. This is partly because the films which tend to get given Razzies are often seen by millions [...]
Oscar Thoughts…
You can read a full list of nominations here, but I thought it best just to note a few little aberrations and nice surprises which the Academy threw our way this year. The Blind Side for Best Picture – I don’t know how, why or for what reason this has happened, but awards boards and [...]
BAFTA Thoughts…
Though I could gripe immediately with a bunch of the nominations given, I’m going to give the first part only of this over to the minor grips I have with the BAFTA nominations, announced this morning (and here in full via Empire Magazine). The leading nominees, each with eight, are Avatar, The Hurt Locker and [...]
Golden Globes Thoughts…
It would seem to me that the awards season should be used to reward the best films, the best performances in terms of the measurable quality of the product put out rather than the popularity of the nominees. The Golden Globes, as if edging, as my podcast colleague Tommy suggested today, towards becoming a glorified [...]
Other Oscar Nomination Predictions
I did predict a few little while ago, but much has changed in the interim and I feel it necessary to update my prediction season for the nominees, something I will do again in early February just before the nominations are announced. The primary change is the fall of Nine, previously considered a shoe-in for [...]
Let the Oscar Buzz Begineth!!
As we are prone to do, it feels like to kick-off the Oscar buzz season as awards from major film festivals begin to roll in and the ceremony approaches. I realise that this may feel like the kind of wishing-life-away feeling that it given as you walk into shops in mid-September and see Christmas stock [...]
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