It’s that time of year again! Well, it’s early this year, but it’s time. Sunday February 9th, the Academy Awards are being held to honor the best (or most) in film from 2019 (with some of these actually releasing in 2020). Confusing? Maybe. To clear some confusion about the nominees and who is 100% guaranteed to win, we are breaking down every category below. It addition, we’ll add some dark horse candidates (with an outside chance at the win) and include our Talkie Talk Winner from from our recent podcast. And away we go!
Continue reading “100% Guaranteed Accurate Academy Award Predictions”Category: State of the Race
Talkie Talk Topic – Our Oscar Winners
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A-hoy hoy dear listener. Gather your friends and family as we break down who we think should win each award at the Oscars this year. We are not predicting who we think WILL win, these are who we WANT to win. Timestamps below.
Live Action Short – 2:52
Doc Short – 10:56
Animated Short – 18:30
International Feature – 27:29
Documentary Feature – 32:47
Animated Feature – 39:06
Visual Effects – 44:27
Sound – 52:29
Original Song – 58:51
Original Score – 1:04:10
Production Design – 1:10:54
Makeup and Hairstyling – 1:17:13
Costume Design – 1:21:27
Editing – 1:28:00
Cinematography – 1:30:00
Original Screenplay – 1:37:07
Adapted Screenplay – 1:43:47
Supporting Actor – 1:51:31
Supporting Actress – 1:56:19
Best Actor – 2:02:06
Best Actress – 2:06:56
Director – 2:13:26
Best Picture – 2:15:13
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Talkie Talk Topic – Oscar 2020 Nomination Predictions
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Our experts have bashed their heads together to predict the nominees for the 2020 Oscars. Listen in as we discuss the most likely inclusions and exclusions for each category. You’ll be surprised to hear how many nominations Cats is predicted to get!
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2020 Oscar Predictions: TJ Versus David – November Edition
Hope everybody had a good Turkey Day! We’re thankful here for monthly 2020 Oscar nomination predictions! Saved for posterity, so that we can reflect on our Nostradamussian perfection in February. Consider this the Biff’s Sports Almanac of Academy acumen.
Best Picture
We Agree: The Irishman, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Parasite, Marriage Story, Jojo Rabbit, Little Women, Ford v Ferrari, Joker, 1917 (9)
We Disagree: TJ – Bombshell (1), David – The Two Popes (1)
Biggest Riser: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (+2)
Biggest Fall: Marriage Story, Ford v Ferrari (-3)
New Entries: Bombshell, 1917, Joker
State of the Race: Independent Spirit Award Nominations Announced!
Happy Thanksgiving! We have our second award domino to fall (after the Gotham Award nominations), and this one is also similarly unconnected to the actual industry. The Spirit Awards are given by Film Independent, a nonprofit arts organization supporting independent films and filmmakers, for “independent” movies made for under $25 million. Prestige arms of big studios still get in here, like Fox Searchlight, Paramount Vintage, and Sony Pictures Classics. But also, big prestige films that win Oscars get celebrated here too – Best Picture winners like The Artist (2011), 12 Years a Slave (2013), Birdman (2014), Spotlight (2015) and Moonlight (2016).
The nominees are shown below – along with the number of Academy Award nominees from the previous year in the respective categories, as well as how many Oscar nominees the Spirits tend to nominate since 2009 (the year of the increase in Best Picture).
Continue reading “State of the Race: Independent Spirit Award Nominations Announced!”2020 Oscar Predictions: TJ Versus David – September Edition
Here we go! We’re updating our predictions month to month as we get closer to the 2020 Oscars. Going month to month, TJ and David will give their picks to see what’s rising and what’s falling. Without any further ado, away we a-go:
Best Picture
We Agree: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Marriage Story, Jojo Rabbit, The Irishman, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, Parasite, Ford v Ferrari, Little Women, The Farewell (9)
We Disagree: TJ – 1917 (1), David – The Two Popes (1)
Biggest Riser: Jojo Rabbit (+7)
Biggest Fall: 1917 (-6)
New Entries: The Two Popes, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
2020 Oscar Predictions: TJ versus David – August Edition
We’re going to try something new with The Media By Us – writing about the Oscars. We will be updating our predictions month to month as we get closer to the 2020 Oscars. Going month to month, TJ and David will give their picks to see what’s rising and what’s falling. Without any further ado, away we a-go:
Best Picture
We Agree: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, The Irishman, 1917, Little Women, Marriage Story, The Farewell, Ford v Ferrari, Jojo Rabbit, Parasite (9)
We Disagree: TJ – A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (1), David – The Laundromat (1)
100% Accurate 2019 Academy Award Predictions
Kevin Hart is hosting. Oops, he’s not.
A new popular film category is happening. Oops, it’s not.
Kevin Hart is back hosting. Oops again, he’s not.
Only two Original Songs are being performed. Oops, now it’s all five.
Four categories will be announced during commercials. Oops, they’re back.
There’s a non-zero chance that the 91st Academy Awards are not actually announced on Sunday February 24th, from how the Academy is currently going. In the chance that they actually do happen, David and TJ will present their predictions in every category. We’ll break down the nominees, our predictions, and will present the prediction from the Darkest Timeline – the worst case thing that could happen… might just happen. Here we go.
Continue reading “100% Accurate 2019 Academy Award Predictions”Talkie Talk #153: Who Should Win, Pt. 2
Who should win the Oscar! Part 2 has the (more) major awards!
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3rd Annual Talkie Awards (The Timbus)! We go through an extensive town-hall style debate to see which movies should win in every category of the 2019 Academy Awards. The winners… may surprise you. The discussion… may just save your life.
Part 1 has the specialty categories and technical awards (check out TT #152). Part 2 here has the heavy hitters here: cinematography, writing, acting, directing and Best Picture.
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Below is The Media By Us Oscar vote; we indicate a winner along with the vote totals (and the runner up, where possible):
Cinematography: The Favourite (3-1, Roma)
Original Screenplay: First Reformed (4-0)
Adapted Screenplay: BlacKkKlansman (4-0)
Supporting Actor: Sam Elliott, A Star is Born (3-1, Mahershala Ali)
Supporting Actress: Rachel Weisz, The Favourite (2-1-1, Regina King, Emma Stone)
Lead Actor: Christian Bale, Vice (2-1*, Bradley Cooper)
Lead Actress: Olivia Colman, The Favourite (4-0)
Director: Alfonso Cuaron, Roma (4-0)
Best Picture: Roma (2-2**, The Favourite)
*Lead Actor Protest Vote – Ethan Hawke should be here.
**Best Picture – deadlock, went to #2 votes to break tie.
Warning: Some mild language. Some language is picante.
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Talkie Talk #152: Who Should Win, Pt. 1
Who should win the Oscar! Part 1 has the technical awards!
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3rd Annual Talkie Awards (The Timbus)! We go through an extensive town-hall style debate to see which movies should win in every category of the 2019 Academy Awards. The winners… may surprise you. The discussion… may just save your life.
Part 1 has the specialty categories and technical awards. Part 2 (later in the week) will have writing/acting/directing and Best Picture.
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Below is The Media By Us Oscar vote; we indicate a winner along with the vote totals (and the runner up, where possible):
Live Action Short: Skin (3-1, Mother)
Documentary Short: A Night at the Garden (3-1, Period. End of Sentence.)
Animated Short: Bao (2-1-1, One Small Step, Animal Behaviour)
Foreign Language: Roma (4-0)
Documentary: Minding the Gap (4-0)
Animated Film: Into the Spiderverse (3-1, Isle of Dogs)
Visual Effects: Avengers: Infinity War (3-1, First Man)
Sound Mixing: First Man (2-1-1, A Star is Born, Roma)
Sound Editing: First Man (3-1, A Quiet Place)
Original Song: “Shallow” (A Star is Born) (4-0)
Original Score: Black Panther (3-1, Isle of Dogs)
Production Design: Black Panther (3-1, Roma)
Makeup/Hair: Vice (3-0, 1 no vote)
Film Editing: BlacKkKlansman (3-1, Vice)
Costume Design: Black Panther (4-0)
Warning: Some mild language. Some language is picante.
> Intro theme courtesy of The Willow Walkers
> Normal outro song “Extemporaneous Birth” courtesy of Boo Reefa