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 published: 2011-09-22Oscar Eye: Welcome To Another Year Of The Prediction Charts Each week I'll update the charts based on whatever I'm perceiving in buzz or reviews or more ephemeral stuff like that. In each individual category I've explained as best I can what my thinking is, and I'll continue those explanations-- though hopefully in shorter versions-- each week. Take a look at the charts below, keep in mind it's all very preliminary, and let me know which contenders I'm underestimating or plain forgot  filed under: oscar eye
 published: 2011-09-14Oscar Eye: Gauging The Toronto Buzz And What Happens Next I'm still not ready to put together the big season-long charts that are usually in this column-- partly because I don't have the time during the festival crunch, and partly because it just feels too soon. But below are some of the Toronto titles with the biggest potential to move into Oscar campaigns, and what I've learned about them here at the festival filed under: oscar eye
 published: 2011-09-06Oscar Eye: Predicting The Nominees As Festival Season Kicks Off While you read this I'm on my way to the Toronto International Film Festival, one of several early September film festivals that mark the real beginning of Oscar season. Yes, it will be many months before you start seeing TV ads with "Best Picture nominee" on them, and almost as long before many of the big potential contenders filed under: oscar eye
 published: 2011-02-28Oscar Eye: Everyone's A Winner At Academy Awards Version Of A Group Hug I choose to see it as the only logical result in a year that was crammed with great movies, all of them worthwhile for their own reasons and all of them deserving of their moment. Even films that didn't take home a single prize felt well-honored by tonight's ceremony filed under: oscar eye
 published: 2011-02-23Oscar Eye: Final Winner Predictions Below are my best predictions for all the categories, with a little bit of reasoning about how I chose them. On a lot of these I feel pretty confident, having followed the Oscar buzz all the way since last September and weighed the Academy's predilections for period films/giant costumes/loud movies/Rick Baker when appropriate. filed under: oscar eye
 published: 2011-02-16Oscar Eye: 8 Ways The Academy Awards Can Still Surprise Us There are still enough surprises in store to make this year's Oscars well worth watching, and even the good kind of surprises that won't make you give up on faith in the movie industry entirely. With just two weeks left of pre-Oscar columns left to go, and next week's inevitably dedicated to my predictions about who will win, it's time to run down the eight potential surprises on Oscar night filed under: oscar eye
 published: 2011-02-03Oscar Eye: Does The King's Speech Really Have The Race Locked Up? You mean the ensuing SAG and DGA Awards caused nearly every Oscar pundit to set their hair on fire last weekend, while I was still trying to figure out how to get my snow boots back in my suitcase? Christ, OK filed under: oscar eye
 published: 2011-01-25Oscar Eye: Nolan Snubbed, Bardem Surprises, And More Nomination Analysis Let's start with the big one: Christopher Nolan didn't get the Best Director nomination. filed under: oscar eye
 published: 2011-01-20Oscar Eye: Final Nominee Predictions The minute you say something is predictable or obvious in the Oscar world, something totally bizarre happens to prove you wrong. So really, who knows filed under: oscar eye
 published: 2011-01-14Oscar Eye: Going Deep To Predict The Acting Nominees So if we're trying to predict the Oscars--and that is where this column gets its name, after all-- it's probably best just to focus on the awards season at hand, especially with the nominations announcement filed under: oscar eye
 published: 2011-01-05Oscar Eye: Who Will Be Nominated For Best Picture, And Why So what are the films? And why does everyone seem to agree in such lockstep about what they'll be? Your answer is mostly in the precursor awards, ranging from critic's groups to the Writers and Screen Actors filed under: oscar eye
 published: 2010-12-16Oscar Eye: Translating The SAG And Golden Globe Nominations Between announcements from a series of major critical groups, the nominations for the Golden Globes and the SAG Awards and the huge amount of press nearly every major nominee has been doing filed under: oscar eye
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