Well, they certainly didn’t shy away from the controversy, did they? Chris Rock had a pretty funny opening monologue, but after a while he kinda beat the thing to death. Oh well. BEST PICTURE: Winner: Spotlight My Pick: The Big Short You know, my gut told me it would be Spotlight, but I over-analyzed the […]
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My 2015-2016 Oscar Predictions – Part 5: The Results
February 28, 2016My 2015-2016 Oscar Predictions – Part 4: The Majors
February 6, 2016Now I finish my predictions with the “big 6”: the acting categories, director and of course Best Picture. BEST PICTURE: The Martian The Revenant Room Bridge of Spies Spotlight The Big Short Brooklyn Mad Max: Fury Road So it seems to be coming down to Spotlight vs. The Big Short. From my limited research, The […]
My 2015-2016 Oscar Predictions Part 2: The Technicals
February 6, 2016These next categories are usually the categories I am most interested in when watching the Oscars, because they can have a tendency to honour films that would usually be overlooked in the more prominent categories. These are the categories which focus on the video and audio details of the film. VISUAL EFFECTS: Ex Machina – […]
My 2015-2016 Oscar Predictions Part 1: The Outliers
February 6, 2016Part 1: The Outliers This group is made up of the categories celebrating whole films which are not up for Best Picture. These involve the shorts and the special full-length features. These can usually be the toughest predictions to make, considering the films are not that well known. ANIMATED FEATURE FILM: Anomalisa Boy and the […]
My 2014-2015 Oscar Predictions – Part 4: The Majors
February 6, 2015Now I finish my predictions with the “big 6”: the acting categories, director and of course Best Picture. BEST PICTURE: American Sniper (Warner Bros. Pictures) Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (Fox Searchlight Pictures) Boyhood (IFC Films) The Grand Budapest Hotel (Fox Searchlight Pictures) The Imitation Game (The Weinstein Company) Selma (Paramount Pictures) The […]
My 2014-2015 Oscar Predictions – Part 3: The Story Aspects
February 5, 2015The third part of the predictions involves the storytelling through screenplays, editing, and then I threw in cinematography and the music categories just so they fit somewhere. Lets take a look! ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), Written by Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Alexander Dinelaris, Nicolas Giacobone, Armando Bo Boyhood, Written by Richard […]
My 2014-2015 Oscar Predictions Part 2: The Technicals
February 4, 2015These next categories are usually the categories I am most interested in when watching the Oscars, because they can have a tendency to honour films that would usually be overlooked in the more prominent categories. These are the categories which focus on the video and audio details of the film. VISUAL EFFECTS: Dan DeLeeuw, Russell […]
My 2014-2015 Oscar Predictions Part 1: The Outliers
February 3, 2015Is it just me, or does this seem like a really tough year to pick from? Well, lets give it a shot anyhow… This will be the first of my 4 sets of predictions, as usual. Part 1: The Outliers This group is made up of the categories celebrating whole films which are not up […]
My 2013-2014 Oscar Predictions – Part 3: The Story Aspects
February 5, 2014The third part of the predictions involves the storytelling through screenplays, editing, and then I threw in cinematography and the music categories just so they fit somewhere. Lets take a look! ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: American Hustle, Written by Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell Blue Jasmine, Written by Woody Allen Dallas Buyers Club, Written by […]
My 2013-2014 Oscar Predictions Part 2: The Technicals
February 2, 2014These next categories are usually the categories I am most interested in when watching the Oscars, because they can have a tendancy to honour films that would usually be overlooked in the more prominent categories. These are the categories which focus on the video and audio details of the film. VISUAL EFFECTS: Gravity, Tim Webber, […]
My 2013-2014 Oscar Prediction Part 1: The Outliers
February 1, 2014Wow, I’ve been doing this for 5 years now? Crazy. I didn’t even realize my blog was that old… Well here we go, another year another Oscars. Lets see what predictions I can make this year. Part 1: The Outliers This group is made up of the categories celebrating whole films which are not up […]
My 2012-2013 Oscar Predictions – Part 4: The Majors
January 27, 2013Now I finish my predictions with the “big 6”: the acting categories, director and of course Best Picture. BEST PICTURE: Amour (Sony Pictures Classics), Margaret Menegoz, Stefan Arndt, Veit Heiduschka and Michael Katz, Producers Argo (Warner Bros.), Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck and George Clooney, Producers Beasts of the Southern Wild (Fox Searchlight), Dan Janvey, Josh […]
My 2012-2013 Oscar Predictions – Part 3: The Story Aspects
January 27, 2013The third part of the predictions involves the storytelling through screenplays, editing, and then I threw in cinematography and the music categories just so they fit somewhere. Lets take a look! ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Amour, Written by Michael Haneke Django Unchained, Written by Quentin Tarantino Flight, Written by John Gatins Moonrise Kingdom, Written by Wes Anderson […]
My 2012-2013 Oscar Predictions – Part 2: The Technicals
January 26, 2013These next categories are usually the categories I am most interested in when watching the Oscars, because they can have a tendancy to honour films that would usually be overlooked in the more prominent categories. These are the categories which focus on the video and audio details of the film. VISUAL EFFECTS: The Hobbit: An […]
My 2012-2013 OScar Predictions – Part 1: The Outliers
January 24, 2013This has been an interesting crop of nominees for the 2012-2013 Oscars. Its time for my fourth annual set of predictions. As always, I will be discussing my picks for the awards over four posts, and the I will write up a fifth posts after the awards show with the results. Part 1: The Outliers […]
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