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2018 Academy Awards, Award Ceremonies

2018 Academy Awards Predictions – Best Original Song

January 23, 2018 Alex Brannan Leave a comment

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?

The Nominees:

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2018 Academy Awards Predictions – Best Adapted Screenplay

January 23, 2018 Alex Brannan Leave a comment

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.

The Nominees:

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2018 Academy Awards Predictions – Best Picture

January 23, 2018 Alex Brannan Leave a comment

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.

The Nominees:

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2018 Academy Awards Predictions – Best Actor

January 23, 2018 Alex Brannan Leave a comment

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.

The Nominees:

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2018 Academy Awards Predictions – Best Original Song Nominees

January 10, 2018 Alex Brannan Leave a comment

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.

The Nominees:

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Call Me By Your Name (2017) Movie Review

December 30, 2017 Alex Brannan 1 Comment

Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me By Your Name is a film that takes its time yet never wastes a moment. It may seem at first that it is slow to startup, but this humdrum beginning that meanders almost lazily through this formative summer of Elio’s (Timothee Chalamet) is used as a basis from which the film’s central relationship can form. From the point at which this relationship comes to be, the film becomes an intensely emotional and sensual experience.

Certainly, this lengthy and deliberate film will lose some viewers. The simplicity of the plotting does not help in that regard. But beyond mere plot is a film that captures Continue reading Call Me By Your Name (2017) Movie Review →

2018 Golden Globes

2018 Golden Globes Predictions – Best Picture

December 12, 2017 Alex Brannan Leave a comment

It is obligatory to acknowledge the continual absurdity of the Golden Globe taxonomy vis a vis what constitutes a “Drama” and what constitutes a “Musical or Comedy,” but I don’t want to dwell on the point. It is getting exhausting.

If Get Out and Lady Bird are comedies, so is Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. Why bother separating the two categories at all? Yeah, it gives comedies a chance to compete, because the dramas often nudge out the comedies. But most other awards outlets have expanded beyond five nominees. Why wouldn’t the Golden Globes just go to one category of 10 films? Who knows!

Whatever. Let’s talk about movies, I guess…

The Nominees:

Best Motion Picture – Drama

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2018 Golden Globes Predictions – Best Supporting Actor

December 11, 2017 Alex Brannan Leave a comment

Someone tell me, is this the first time an actor has received a major award nomination for only doing reshoots? This is the easiest award nomination Christopher Plummer has ever received!

Anyway, let’s talk predictions.

The Nominees – Best Supporting Actor

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Irresponsibly Early Oscars 2018 Predictions: Best Actor

July 17, 2017 Alex Brannan Leave a comment

None of these movies have been released (except for Get Out). Most of these movies don’t even have trailers released. But we’re talking about them anyway.

Hurrah, hearsay!