Best Picture Oscar Power Rankings: December Edition

We’re less than a month away from the Oscar nominations now, and we have a clearer picture than ever as to which films will be in the conversation! With the Globes nominations behind us and the guilds beginning to announce theirs, who are the frontrunners for the biggest award of the night?

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My (Post-Festival) 2020 Oscar Predictions

It’s still early in awards season (if you can even call it that at this point), but by now most or all of the major awards players have premiered on the festival circuit. I’ve already given my thoughts on the results of the major film festivals (Sundance, CannesVenice, and TIFF), but before I see most of the films for myself, I want to give my updated early predictions. Here are my best guesses for how the major categories will look at the 92nd Academy Awards next February!

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Trailer Reactions: “Little Women”, “A Hidden Life”, “Parasite”, “Dolemite Is My Name”, “1917”, “Last Christmas”

As we inch ever closer to the fall season when all the best movies of the year typically release, new movie trailers are dropping like it’s hot! Which of the new trailers from the past week or so have me the most hyped? Which are looking more and more like Oscar contenders as time goes on? Let’s dig in!

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My (Way-too-Early) 2020 Oscar Predictions

The Oscars are still seven months away, but it’s never too early to make totally baseless and incorrect predictions for the ceremony! I did the same thing last year and was pretty off-base on most categories while getting fairly close on a few. Let’s check in on the state of the major races before awards season starts, and begin tracking how it all goes down!

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