Tag: Academy Awards
Best Film Editing Predictions (October)
We know Best Film Editing nominees typically feature either Best Picture contenders or frenetic blockbusters with chaotic editing that makes your head spin. It’s a…
Best Animated Feature Predictions (October)
As per the Academy’s rules, if there are 16 or more films submitted for Best Animated Feature, there will be five nominees. Anything less than…
Best Original Score Predictions (October)
It’s been six years since one composer received two nominations for Best Original Score in the same year, but it seems highly plausible it could…
Best Original Song Predictions (October)
With eleven unsuccessful Oscar nominations, songwriter Diane Warren is beyond overdue for a victory. This year, Warren has not one, not two, but three (!)…
Best Picture Predictions (October)
Much to no one’s surprise, Warner Bros. have now postponed Denis Villeneuve’s Dune to 2021, so you can scratch that off your predictions for this…
Best Director Predictions (October)
With Denis Villeneuve and Steven Spielberg out of this year’s race and still no certainty if Wes Anderson will follow them into 2021, the five…
Best Original Screenplay Predictions (October)
This category is curiously shaping up to potentially being a race between Aaron Sorkin and the father of his former collaborator David Fincher. While there…
Best Adapted Screenplay Predictions (October)
To match her frontrunner status in Best Director, Chloé Zhao finds herself similarly in the pole position for Best Adapted Screenplay for Nomadland. A female…
Best Actor Predictions (October)
UPDATE: With confirmation from Netflix that Chadwick Boseman’s upcoming performance in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom will be submitted as a lead performance, he’s now been…
Best Actress Predictions (October)
With her typically phenomenal performance in Nomadland, Frances McDormand seems all but certain to secure her fifth Oscar nomination. However, with her win in 2018…
Best Supporting Actor Predictions (October)
UPDATE: With confirmation from Netflix that Chadwick Boseman’s upcoming performance in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom will be submitted as a lead performance, his prediction for…
Best Supporting Actress Predictions (October)
Close vs. Colman. Round Two. After Olivia Colman’s shock defeat of perennial runner up Glenn Close in 2018, we’re looking at the two actors facing…
93rd Academy Awards Predictions
Welcome to Filmotomy’s predictions hub for this year’s Academy Awards. It’s here you’ll find Awards Editor Doug Jamieson‘s latest predictions for all 23 categories. For…
My Love/Hate Relationship with the Academy Awards
The year was 1992 and a wide-eyed, Disney-obsessed eight-year-old Australian boy was sitting down to watch the Academy Awards for the very first time. The…
