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Jan. 23, 2023
Oscar Futures: Our Final Predictions for the Nominees Ahead of Tuesday’s nominations, enjoy Vulture’s official predictions for the eight biggest Oscar races.
By Nate Jones
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Jan. 20, 2023
Oscar Futures: Who Will Be Our Nomination-Morning Surprise? All Quiet on the Western Front and Paul Mescal once seemed like long shots but have proved their strength. Who can follow in their footsteps?
By Nate Jones
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Jan. 13, 2023
By Nate Jones
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Dec. 23, 2022
Oscar Futures: The 12 Contenders of Christmas As the awards circus takes a midseason break, let’s zoom out to take stock of the Best Picture field.
By Nate Jones
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Dec. 16, 2022
Oscar Futures: Can Avatar: The Way of Water Crack the Best Picture Race? The original Avatar came close to winning Best Picture. Way of Water will be a presence in the race, too.
By Nate Jones
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Dec. 9, 2022
Oscar Futures: Will The Whale Sink or Swim? Finally out this weekend, Darren Aronofsky’s film has been met with critical harpoons.
By Nate Jones
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Dec. 2, 2022
Oscar Futures: Is the Academy Ready to Forgive Will Smith? He’s banned from the ceremony for the next ten years, but could Will Smith nab a nomination for Emancipation anyway?
By Nate Jones
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Nov. 18, 2022
Oscar Futures: Will Damien Chazelle’s Babylon Go Bust? Damien Chazelle’s Jazz Age orgy earned poisonous buzz in its L.A. premiere. But it only takes a few die-hards to see a misunderstood masterpiece.
By Nate Jones
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Nov. 11, 2022
Oscar Futures: Is The Fabelmans Still Our Front-runner? Steven Spielberg’s autobiographical time capsule debuts on the back of a starry AFI Fest relaunch and a rapturous Academy screening.
By Nate Jones
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Nov. 4, 2022
By Nate Jones
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Oct. 28, 2022
Oscar Futures: Tár and Everything Everywhere Compete for Hipster Hearts The two Best Actress vehicles are also facing off in the battle to become the season’s tastemaker pick.
By Nate Jones
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Oct. 21, 2022
Oscar Futures: Can Banshees of Inisherin Banter Its Way to a Trophy? Martin McDonagh’s In Bruges reunion is the most universally regarded contender to bow thus far.
By Nate Jones
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Oct. 14, 2022
Oscar Futures: Can She Said Get Voters Talking? Harvey Weinstein created the modern Oscars. Can the drama about his downfall become an awards contender?
By Nate Jones
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Oct. 7, 2022
Oscar Futures: A Tár Is Born? Cate Blanchett is getting raves as a manipulative maestro in Todd Field’s drama. Could she get her third trophy, too?
By Nate Jones
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Sept. 29, 2022
By Nate Jones
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Sept. 29, 2022
The New Rules of Oscars Season As we stand on the precipice of another awards season, here are four crucial lessons to remember about the way the Academy works now.
By Nate Jones
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Sept. 29, 2022
Are You Ready for This Year’s Incredibly Messy Best Actor Race? In The Whale and The Son , two of the strongest Best Actor contenders come from films a chunk of the critical community absolutely loathed.
By Nate Jones
Will This Finally Be Michelle Williams’s Year? Williams is the emotional backbone of Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans , and this puts her in an Oscars sweet spot.
By Nate Jones
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Mar. 25, 2022
Is COVID-19 Our New Oscars Dark Horse? The virus had a surprise showing at this year’s BAFTAs.
By Justin Curto
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Mar. 24, 2022
Vulture’s Final 2022 Oscar Predictions for Every Category Many categories, including Best Picture, seem like genuine fifty-fifty calls.
By Nate Jones
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Feb. 28, 2022
Did the SAG Awards Just Show Us the Oscar Acting Winners? In the past decade, the guild’s picks lined up exactly with the eventual Oscar winners four times.
By Nate Jones
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Feb. 4, 2022
Oscar Futures: Our Last-minute Guess at the Nominees In a season that has been anything but normal, prepare for some surprises.
By Nate Jones
Which Borderline Best Picture Contenders Can Get Off the Bubble? Six films. Two spots. Who will fill out Oscar’s Best Picture lineup?
By Nate Jones
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Jan. 28, 2022
Oscar Futures: Who’s in the Lead As Voting Begins? With two open spots in Best Picture, Being the Ricardos and Tick, Tick … Boom! got a boost from the PGA. Can they both get in?
By Nate Jones
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Jan. 21, 2022
Oscar Futures: Can Power of the Dog Break the Netflix Curse? The road to Best Picture runs through Director and Screenplay, and Jane Campion’s Western has a fair shot at picking up both.
By Nate Jones
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Jan. 14, 2022
Oscar Futures: How SAG’s Shocking Snubs Shook Up the Race It was a good week for House of Gucci and a very bad one for the house of Spencer.
By Nate Jones
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Jan. 7, 2022
Oscar Futures: Could Nicolas Cage Surprise Us in Best Actor? As the Will Smith buzz cools, the ostensible front-runner has taken a back seat in the conversation.
By Nate Jones
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Dec. 31, 2021
Oscar Futures: Can Spider-Man Swing Into the Awards Race? No Way Home ’s superpowered box-office could sway the Academy into a more populist stance.
By Nate Jones
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Dec. 17, 2021
Oscar Futures: How the Globes and Critics Choice Shaped the Conversation This week’s set of precursor nominations are hardly definitive, but together they at least give a sense of who’s in the race.
By Nate Jones
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Dec. 10, 2021
Oscar Futures: Is Nicole Kidman the New Best Actress Front-runner? Why Nicole Kidman’s transformative turn as Lucille Ball could earn her trophy No. 2.
By Nate Jones
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Dec. 3, 2021
Oscar Futures: Spielberg’s West Side Story Is Feeling Pretty The long-delayed remake of the 1962 Best Picture winner couldn’t have asked for a better first week.
By Nate Jones
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Nov. 26, 2021
Oscar Futures: Can the Star-Studded Don’t Look Up Make an Impact? Early viewers have come away from Adam McKay’s asteroid comedy convinced the smartypants satirist has done it again.
By Nate Jones
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Nov. 19, 2021
Oscar Futures: Is King Richard an Awards-Season Smash? In Will Smith, the tennis-dad biopic has the Best Actor front-runner. But where else can the film compete?
By Nate Jones
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Nov. 12, 2021
Oscar Futures: Will Gaga and Haim Give Us a Pop-Star Showdown in Best Actress? Gucci Gucci, Ridley Ridley, Lady Lady, Gaga. Twitter critics love this film, but will it win an Oscar?
By Nate Jones
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Nov. 5, 2021
Oscar Futures: Eternals Is Not the Awards-Friendly Blockbuster That Was Promised Chloé Zhao’s Eternals hits theaters this week as the most tepidly received MCU entry since Thor: The Dark World.
By Nate Jones
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Oct. 22, 2021
Oscar Futures: Can Dune Spice Up the Awards Race? On paper, Dune is the kind of prestige blockbuster whose Oscar success would please all camps. But will the box-office flow?
By Nate Jones
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Oct. 15, 2021
Oscar Futures: Who’s in Front As the Race Kicks Off? Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast was the belle of Toronto, with King Richard and The Power of the Dog also drawing raves.
By Nate Jones
’Scuse Me, Sir, Can I Interest You in Some Oscars? What will the 2022 Oscars look like? And, more importantly, will anyone care?
By Nate Jones
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Sept. 30, 2021
This Year’s Best Actress Race Could Spark a Full-On Stan War The actresses who have made the strongest early impressions are also the ones with the most extremely invested fan bases.
By Nate Jones
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Apr. 23, 2021
By Nate Jones
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Apr. 8, 2021
Who the Heck Is Going to Win Best Actress? Oscars Night will arrive with each precursor having named a different Best Actress winner. Which nominee really has the edge?
By Nate Jones
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Mar. 24, 2021
By Charu Sinha
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Mar. 12, 2021
Oscar Futures: Our Last, Best Guess at the Nominations Now that PGA, DGA, and BAFTA have weighed in, who are we picking?
By Nate Jones
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Mar. 5, 2021
Oscar Futures: Can Surprise Globe Winners Keep Up Momentum? As Oscar voting gets underway this week, the Globes gave the Academy a vision of Nomadland and Andra Day triumphant.
By Nate Jones
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Mar. 1, 2021
How the Golden Globe Results Just Changed the Oscar Race With Oscar nomination voting beginning this week, how did the HFPA’s picks affect the race?
By Nate Jones
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Feb. 26, 2021
Oscar Futures: Why the Amazon Debate Won’t Hurt Nomadland ’s Chances We suspect this narrative is likely to remain a Film Twitter-only thing.
By Nate Jones
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Feb. 19, 2021
Oscar Futures: Can Black Messiah Rise Again? After a disappointing showing at the initial precursors, late arrival Judas and the Black Messiah is picking up momentum.
By Nate Jones
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Feb. 12, 2021
Oscar Futures: Could Minari Be This Year’s Underdog Success Story? With glowing reviews, the Korean-immigrant drama is kind of emotionally potent contender that could do well on a preferential ballot.
By Nate Jones
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Feb. 5, 2021
Oscar Futures: After Globe and SAG Noms, the Race Finally Gets Real Jared Leto shows up, Glenn Close shows out, and The Trial of the Chicago 7 proves its bona fides.
By Nate Jones
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Jan. 29, 2021
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