My thoughts and predictions, or results and other news on various Award shows.
Best Actor at the 2018 Academy Awards is looking to be one of the more…obvious categories. This and Best Actress are going to be some of the easier categories to call, at least in terms of who is the determined front-runner going into the ceremony.
That said, upsets are what make these award shows fun, right? That and, you know, the possibility that someone is going to screw something up while on-stage.
Continue reading 2018 Academy Awards Predictions – Best Actor
Production design is what captures the setting of a film. Undoubtedly necessary and often overlooked, set dressing and set design are pivotal yet hard to compare.
Continue reading 2018 Academy Awards Predictions – Best Production Design Nominees
Costume design is perhaps the most visually present thing to judge when it comes to film awards. It can be difficult to determine what films deserve to be nominated for an award like Best Editing. But costumes? Extravagant and showy and you’re in, right?
Not necessarily. Extravagance is certainly a variable, but costumes vary wildly from film to film and from genre to genre. A film like Beauty and the Beast is going for flashiness, where a film like The Shape of Water is going for period authenticity or a film like Blade Runner 2049 is going for a science-fiction sleekness.
Continue reading 2018 Academy Awards Predictions – Best Costume Design Nominees
Sound Design can be an overlooked aspect of filmmaking, just as the Best Sound Editing and Best Sound Mixing Oscar categories can be overlooked awards. Nevertheless, sound design is important, and nabbing the right films in the sound categories can be a key part of winning an Oscar pool.
Before putting that cart before the horse, though, let’s focus on the films that could get nominated.
Continue reading 2018 Academy Awards Predictions – Best Sound Nominees
Best Documentary has been narrowed to a shortlist of 15 films. Raises my chances of not screwing this up, right?
Continue reading 2018 Academy Awards Predictions – Best Documentary Nominees
The Best Original Score category already has some front-runners emerging, but there is room for a number of films to nudge their way into the top five.
Continue reading 2018 Academy Awards Predictions – Best Original Score Nominees
I’m no music critic. The Academy branch that determines the Best Original Song nominees probably don’t think about film the way I do. They could reach out and pull out a song from a film I’ve never heard of, because they’re only listening to the songs regardless of quality of movie.
Still, I’ve put it on myself to roll out predictions. You can’t expect them all to come from my mouth.
Continue reading 2018 Academy Awards Predictions – Best Original Song Nominees
Best Makeup & Hairstyling. The oddest category at the Academy Awards, in that it only takes three nominees. It might be hard to narrow this one down…
Continue reading 2018 Academy Awards Predictions – Best Makeup & Hairstyling Nominees
The Best Visual Effects category has been narrowed down by the Academy to 10 films. Makes my job easier, sure, but even without the shortlist I think these five films would be the ones with the nominations.
Continue reading 2018 Academy Awards Predictions – Best Visual Effects Nominees
There are plenty of well-shot movies that come out every year. 2017 was no different, which makes narrowing down just five movies for Best Cinematography an arduous task. But I’m going to do it anyway!
Continue reading 2018 Academy Awards Predictions – Best Cinematography Nominees
CineFiles Movie Reviews 