Category: Awards Season
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96th Oscars Reaction
15 for 23. Amazingly, my pessimistic strategy accounts for most of my misses. Perhaps it’s time to give the Academy more credit. Before I defend myself, some thoughts on the ceremony itself:
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96th Oscars Will Win/Should Win
This year’s Oscar race hasn’t been quite as monotonous as last year’s. Even then, All Quiet on the Western Front managed some surprises on the night where we expected Everything Everywhere All at Once dominance. Which goes to show that this is all pointless and those of us that try to predict the results have…
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96th Oscars Nominations Reaction
This year’s Academy Award nominees were just announced on Tuesday and I’m not used to watching them sneakily at work instead of setting an alarm to get up early. Rather than run down all the categories, I’m just going to call out the storylines I’m watching for as the show approaches. I’ve decided from now…
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95th Oscars Will Win/Should Win
This is very last-minute, but I’m watching the clock count down to the start of the ceremony and feel compelled to just throw this out there. I haven’t been keeping up very closely with the races because I’ve been too focused on other things the last couple of months. These predictions are fun to make,…
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95th Oscars Nominee Predictions
The nominees for this year’s Academy Awards will be announced tomorrow morning. Rather than try to predict the actual lists of nominees for each category, I thought I’d try something I’ve seen from other blogs and make some assorted predictions along with my sense of their likelihood. So I did that, and then realized that…
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94th Oscars: Predictions
Normally every year I make a big write-up of what I think will win and should win at the Oscars. For a variety of reasons I don’t have time to make a granular post this time, unfortunately. But to keep up the tradition I’m going to just dump it here as a list. For the…
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94th Oscars: Best Picture Tier List
Another year, another rule change. For the first time since 2011, rather than letting some behind-the-scenes math determine the number of Best Picture nominees, there are a flat ten films in the running. The change paid off immediately. It’s always better to recognize more great movies, and almost all of these nominees deserve to be…
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94th Oscars Nominations
The Academy announced the nominees for this year’s Oscars Tuesday morning. I tried to resist the urge to tweet too much because I’m trying to use the internet less, but, well sometimes duty calls. So I thought I’d lay down my thoughts on the nominations in a more coherent form. I’ll skip the categories where…