Oscars 2020: ACE Eddie Nominations
And here’s our final precursor. The last piece of help we’re going to get before Oscar nominations come Monday morning. Meaning after this, I’ve got to spend today, tomorrow and Saturday figuring out...
View ArticleOscars 2020: My Nominations Ballot
You know what this article means — Oscar nominations are around the corner. I started writing up this particular article because I’ve always felt when people write up Oscar predictions, there’s always...
View ArticleOscars 2020: The B+ Nominations Ballot
Last year I remember feeling like Oscar season was rushed upon us. This article went up January 12th. And here we are after March 12th. What a difference a year makes. After the strangest season ever,...
View ArticleAnd the Nominees Are… (2020)
Here are your Oscar nominations. I’ll be back later with full analysis: Best Picture The Father Judas and the Black Messiah Mank Minari Nomadland Promising Young Woman Sound of Metal The Trial of the...
View ArticleAnd the Nominees Are: Analyzing the 93rd Academy Award Nominations
Okay, so we got here. Nominations have finally been announced. And now all that thinking I’ve been doing about what was gonna get here is gonna cease to be relevant the minute I finish this article....
View ArticleOscars 2020: WGA Awards
The WGA handed out awards last night. This will help us figure out what’s gonna win the Screenplay awards. At this point, given the protracted season, we kinda know what’s most likely to win, but this...
View ArticleOscars 2020: PGA Awards
The PGA Awards were handed out last night. To absolutely no one’s surprise, Nomadland took home Best Picture, which basically shores up that discussion. All that’s left to announce are BAFTA and SAG....
View Article2020 Oscar Category Breakdown: Best Animated Feature
And we’re finally on the downhill. It’ll be category breakdowns every single day from here on out and then it’s Oscar weekend, baby. Since the theme of this year is brevity, I’m not gonna do the whole...
View Article2020 Oscar Category Breakdown: Best International Feature
We continue our category breakdowns with Best International Feature. They’ve been tweaking this one a bunch in recent years and all of the changes seem to be impacting this category for the better. On...
View Article2020 Oscar Category Breakdown: Best Visual Effects
Today’s category is Best Visual Effects, which is the single most compromised category this year. Which isn’t its fault. We had a pandemic and theaters were closed and a lot of films got pushed a year....
View ArticleOscars 2020: Makeup & Hairstylist Guild Awards
The Makeup & Hairstylist Guild Awards were held tonight. As a reminder, this is your Oscar category: Emma Hillbilly Elegy Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom Mank Pinocchio There were five categories given...
View Article2020 Oscar Category Breakdown: Best Actor
Today we go over Best Actor. Which, when I think back over this category in the years I’ve covered these awards (or even watched them seriously), it’s hard for me to think of many categories that felt...
View ArticleOscars 2020: SAG Awards
The SAG Awards were tonight. Honestly, this is the one awards show where I was pretty thrilled they cut it down to an hour and just ran through all the winners rather than doing the whole pageantry....
View Article2020 Oscar Category Breakdown: Best Documentary Short
Today’s category is Best Documentary Short, which is one of those categories the average viewer doesn’t know anything about and either just sort of guesses or looks up what people are saying is gonna...
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2020 Oscar Category Breakdown: Best Animated Short
Today is Best Animated Short. I know most people tune out during the shorts categories, but this one at least has cute stuff in it, so maybe some people pay a little bit of attention during it. Though...
View ArticleOscars 2020: VES Awards
The VES Awards were handed out tonight. Theoretically they’re helpful in picking what’s gonna win the Oscar, but given what this year looks like, I’ve already written my my category breakdown because...
View Article2020 Oscar Category Breakdown: Best Original Song
Today we’re going over Best Original Song. And the beauty of this category is that everyone can participate in it. You simply just have to listen to 5 songs and then pick which one you think is the...
View Article2020 Oscar Category Breakdown: Best Supporting Actor
Today is Best Supporting Actor, a category that has been really solid in recent years. And also really easy to guess. This year is no different. We basically know who’s gonna win from a mile out. Which...
View Article2020 Oscar Category Breakdown: Best Costume Design
Today is Best Costume Design. Normally I’d wait to go over a category like this until I see what BAFTA and the guild have to say, but given how this one looks I think we can make pretty solid guesses...
View Article2020 Oscar Category Breakdown: Best Original Score
Today’s category is Best Original Score, which has largely been a really solid category throughout the years. And the reason I know that is because, even since they’ve started announcing a shortlist...
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