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We are arriving at the point of the Oscar race that I dread every year. Until the nominations come down, all of the doors are wide open. It's easy to imagine the ...

The story of Best Actress is not yet told because a big fish is still to be reeled in, and that's the highly anticipated performance of Lady Gaga in House of Gucci. ...

Remember, there isn't really an Oscar race now. Rather, there is a pretend Oscar race. There is a lot of chatter on Twitter about the race. It is mostly contained there, with ...

“The signal is the truth. The noise is what distracts us from the truth.” ― Nate Silver, The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't The Oscar race ...

In looking over Oscar history, it seems clear that in the era of the expanded Best Picture ballot, most of the acting winners will come from Best Picture nominees, but especially Best ...

There is the temptation, especially among those new friendos to the Oscar game, to "call it." But if you've been around a while, you know those early premature calls can come back ...

Almost every Best Actress winner comes with an Oscar story. It isn't always the case that there is one frontrunner who wins everything, including Best Actress. Sometimes there is a surprise winner. ...

If you're watching the reviews come down on Film Twitter you are going to be tempted to draw conclusions about some movies. Twitter has become its own ecosystem that distorts reality. What ...

New York, NY (May 16, 2021) - The 2021 “MTV Movie & TV Awards” aired LIVE from the Palladium in Los Angeles on Sunday, May 16. Comedienne and actress Leslie Jones hosted ...

Best motion picture of the year “Nomadland” Frances McDormand, Peter Spears, Mollye Asher, Dan Janvey and Chloé Zhao, Producers Performance by an actor in a leading role Anthony Hopkins in “The Father” Performance by ...

By Dave Guthmann In Part I of How Much Risk Do You Need to Take to Win Your Oscar Pool, I argued that you should stay clear of high risk picks, especially ...

Alright, the longest Oscar race in history is about to breath its long last gasp. For a community that is mostly used to slotting movies and performances in their lanes and riding ...

It's natural to not think of the Independent Spirit Awards as a particularly valuable Oscar-predicting stats tool, since too many of the Oscar front-runners are ineligible for ISA wins and nominations, seemingly ...

The Oscar voters have until 5 to lock down their votes. I expect they will waste no time filling them out because they've been sitting on the same movies for months now. ...

Disney+'s WandaVision leads all contenders at the 2021 MTV Movie & TV Awards with five nominations. It is followed closely by Netflix's Emily in Paris. On the film side, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: ...

How fortunate are we, the movie loving public, and Academy members to have in 2021, five male performances as rich and inventive as those beautifully created by Riz Ahmed, Gary Oldman, Steven ...

"A long, long time ago I can still remember how that music Used to make me smile And I knew if I had my chance That I could make those people dance ...

There are two ways to look at splits in the Best Director / Best Picture categories. The first is that it was much more possible in the era of five Best Picture ...

This year's Best Actress race is the most unpredictable and competitive in years. That makes it nearly impossible to predict. Let's count the ways. If Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman win on ...

Here is an encore presentation of my tribute montages made to honor the five amazing women nominated for Best Actress this year. They are all indelibly dazzling, and in a race where ...