Tag Archives: 2018

2018 Academy Awards, Award Ceremonies

2018 Academy Awards Predictions – Best Original Song

Sometimes, the nominees for Best Original Song come from unexpected places. This time around, not so much. The Marshall nod was a bit out of left field but certainly nothing unforeseeable.

The winner for Best Original Song, though, often comes from the most popular film of the bunch. This is to say, whichever film was most widely seen or whichever had the most widely-heard song or whichever has the highest Oscar stock. This, or the film is a popular musical, in which case it often wins by default.

This year, the nominees include a (somewhat) popular musical, a widely seen animated film, and a film with a relatively high Oscar stock. So…who wins?

pixar-movie-review-2017-coco-day-of-the-dead

The Nominees:

Continue reading 2018 Academy Awards Predictions – Best Original Song →

2018 Academy Awards, Award Ceremonies

2018 Academy Awards Predictions – Best Original Score

The 2018 crop of Best Original Score nominees is mainly comprised of familiar faces to the Academy: Williams, Desplat, Zimmer, etc. That said, there’s one newcomer to the Oscar-nominee club that could shake things up in this category.

three-billboards-outside-ebbing-missouri-movie-review

The Nominees:

Continue reading 2018 Academy Awards Predictions – Best Original Score →

2018 Academy Awards, Award Ceremonies

2018 Academy Awards Predictions – Best Sound (Editing and Mixing)

With the two sound categories—Sound Mixing and Sound Editing—holding the same five nominees, it is tempting to give the win for both awards to the same film. While usually I would warn against this notion, this year the possibility for that happening is certainly there.

blade-runner-2049-ryan-gosling-movie-review-2017-ridley-scott

Best Sound Mixing:

The Nominees:

Continue reading 2018 Academy Awards Predictions – Best Sound (Editing and Mixing) →

2018 Academy Awards, Award Ceremonies

2018 Academy Awards Predictions – Best Adapted Screenplay

As opposed to the Best Original Screenplay category, the Oscar race for Best Adapted Screenplay is fairly narrow. There are some interesting picks, but the winners and losers are clear cut. For the most part.

call-me-by-your-name-luca-guadagnino-2017

The Nominees:

Continue reading 2018 Academy Awards Predictions – Best Adapted Screenplay →

2018 Academy Awards, Award Ceremonies

2018 Academy Awards Predictions – Best Original Screenplay

This year, Best Original Screenplay is a category stacked with talent. All five of the scripts here are sharp, personal, and powerful when they need to be.

Only one can win, of course, so let’s talk about it,

get-out-oscars-awards

The Nominees:

Continue reading 2018 Academy Awards Predictions – Best Original Screenplay →

2018 Academy Awards, Award Ceremonies

2018 Academy Awards Predictions – Who Will Win

Oscar nominations have been announced. As such, it is time to begin CineFiles’ annual slog/tradition of futile guessing as to who/what will win in each of the 24 Academy categories.

Let’s get into it!

Best Picture

Continue reading 2018 Academy Awards Predictions – Who Will Win →

2018 Academy Awards, Award Ceremonies

2018 Academy Awards Predictions – Best Picture

It’s the big one. The Oscar for Best Picture, 2018. Nine films, one statue. Yadda yadda, movie yadda.

This field is pretty open. Award season has started narrowing in on one or two front-runners, but, by and large, this crop of films is strong. I could foresee a number of quality upsets.

call-me-by-your-name-2017-movie-review

The Nominees:

Continue reading 2018 Academy Awards Predictions – Best Picture →

2018 Academy Awards, Award Ceremonies

2018 Academy Awards Predictions – Best Director

The 2018 Best Director category is not entirely unexpected. There is a surprise or two (mainly just one, though), but mainly this race remains the same as it was before the nominations were announced. The only hurdle left for the current front-runner to jump is the DGAs. Let’s talk about that.

phantom-thread-vicky-krieps-movie-review

The Nominees:

Continue reading 2018 Academy Awards Predictions – Best Director →

2018 Academy Awards, Award Ceremonies

2018 Academy Awards Predictions – Best Supporting Actor

Not unlike his Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri co-star Frances McDormand, Sam Rockwell seems to have this award locked up. But there are no sure things in this world.

all-the-money-in-the-world

The Nominees:

Continue reading 2018 Academy Awards Predictions – Best Supporting Actor →

2018 Academy Awards, Award Ceremonies

2018 Academy Awards Predictions – Best Supporting Actress

I don’t want to say Best Supporting Actress is already a two-horse race. But Best Supporting Actress is already a two-horse race.

lady-bird-2017-movie-review

The Nominees:

Continue reading 2018 Academy Awards Predictions – Best Supporting Actress →