Tag: Oscars

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:

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…