97th Oscars Projections: Post AFI/NBR & HCA Nominations Outlook
The awards landscape feels like a “fog of war,” as we await to see which film emerges as the favorite.
The awards landscape feels like a “fog of war,” as we await to see which film emerges as the favorite.
The fact is that elections’ results have, and will, affect what Academy voters’ tastes are like for the season.
The result means we will get three straight one-term presidencies right after we had three straight two-term presidencies
The year in film is indeed weak, and the campaign for the biggest prize in the industry is indeed wide-open as we enter mid-October.
I’ll go one-by-one what those good signs are and separate them between the two candidates. I’ll also note some interesting tidbits to keep an eye on come November as results come in
The 97th Oscars Best Picture race might arguably be even more competitive than the ongoing presidential campaign.
If the Spring and the Summer blockbuster season were the training camps for the best picture race, the fall film festivals are the draft.
At a certain point you can’t keep looking at where the chips are falling and tell yourself this is a pure toss-up race.
The Cannes Film Festival has come and gone, providing us with a little bit more of a clearer picture on Oscars Projections
Best thing to do now is to wait until Cannes to look at the race again and figure out where things have shifted and what fog has cleared.
The complaints about the Oscars not connecting with the regular person off the street have been becoming more and more faint
And The Oscar Goes To: Luis Mendez presents his annual, final predictions for this weekend’s 96th Academy Awards ceremony.
Overall I was able to predict 92 of the 115 nominee slots available across all 23 categories – 76% correct and a personal best for me.
Less than a week after my last outlook into how the battle for nominations at this year’s Oscars are shaking up
We’ve finally seen some major movement in the awards’ races however. Critics, journalists, and content creators that makeup the major critics groups have had their say
As we start hitting the homestretch of critics’ season…the thing is that every year the industry decides to throw us for a loop and do their own thing.
Top 25 Films Of 2023: I’m singling out 25 narrative films out of 260-plus that I saw this year – not every good to great film can make it in
The biggest 2024 Oscar projection headlines come from what I consider the early major awards bodies that the industry will look to as a guide
I looked at how the race for the 2024 Oscars ceremony was shaping up
It is still insanely early, and the makeup of the 2024 Oscars still has plenty room to change between now and nomination morning.