It’s an Oscar season unlike any other. With an eligibility period and a ceremony delayed by two months due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it may be a long time before we see an Oscars year as uncertain as this. Major movies that may have figured into the race have been delayed, leaving a slate of nominees that would have been drowned out in other years.
Read MoreThere’s still a chance that the Film-Twitter ApprovedTM foreign-language nominee Parasite may act as a dark horse and make history in the Best Picture race, but I’m not putting a huge amount of faith in an Academy that only last year gave the award to Green Book, a (not terrible!) but thoroughly plain choice in a far more accomplished field. With less than one week to go, on to the picks!
Read MoreBack in February, we surveyed all the films set to come out over the upcoming year and wondered who could win their first statue in 2020.
It’s now five months later, so we thought it was high time to revisit the list and see what’s changed.
Read MoreThe Scopies are a run-down of the awards we’d prefer to be giving out to the filmmakers, cast members and telecast participants, instead of the never-quite-satisfying real results.
Read MoreIt’s by the far one of the messiest years in recent memory when it comes down to calling the Oscars. In the absence of sure-fire picks in many categories, and disruptive winners in some of the precursor guild awards, many races in 2019 come down as much to gut instinct as they do to statistics.
Read MoreThe most important news this year is it's a very difficult one to call, with lots of uncertainty in major categories in the way that there hasn't been for some time.
It may be because there's a surplus of excellent movies this year, or just that the Academy's efforts to modernize its membership are finally showing some results. And we also can't discount the effect of past controversies and scandals: #OscarsSoWhite seems to be less of a worry this year, but there's also the influence of #MeToo and #TimesUp to account for.
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