I’ve always had a love/hate relationship with the Academy, as many people often do. Usually, they tend to make decent decisions. They may not always choose the best in a given category, but they usually at least choose a decent representation for it. Of course, there are times when they are completely right on the nose (Casablanca, Lawrence of Arabia, Schindler’s List, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, etc.), but on the flip side, there are also moments where you have to question whether or not they’ve really seen all of the nominees.
Tonight, the Writers Guild of America will present their awards for excellence in writing for film and television for 2013. The main categories that everyone has their eyes on as usual are Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay, which can help us narrow down the potential Oscar winner if all of the correct nominees are present.
It’s a question that I’ve been asked several times over the past week: Do you think we are likely to have a split between Best Picture and Best Director this year? It’s a complicated question, and also one that’s worth exploring in a little detail. If you had asked me about halfway through the critics awards, I probably would have given you a strong “yes.” The way the awards were going (12 Years a Slave taking the vast majority of Best Picture prizes and Gravity cleaning up the majority of Best Director awards), it looked certain that that was the direction we were heading, but if we look back at Oscar history, there are a few interesting things to take note of that can help us determine whether or not we should still be calling for the split or not.
With just a little over two months left to go before the fourth season of Game of Thrones premieres, anticipation couldn't be higher. We've already seen an exciting trailer in addition to a few behind the scenes pics, but now HBO has released the first official batch of photos, showing us a multitude of beloved characters (and some not so beloved) in all their glory.
This has been one of the most exciting awards seasons of the last several years. Normally by this time, everything is pretty much wrapped up, even before the Oscars air. All the previous awards have usually pointed us directly to what will inevitably win Best Picture, leaving us with no surprise to be had on the big night. However, that's not how things have gone this year. For once, it isn't crystal clear what those in the industry find to be the best film of the year. We may have thought we knew earlier, but after the past couple of weeks, we've been presented with a number of shifts that have thrown the awards race into a tizzy. How did we get to this point? Well, let's go back and look at how the whole thing started.
Tonight, the Directors Guild of America unveiled their choices for Outstanding Directorial achievement for 2013, and as expected, Alfonso Cuaron won their top prize for his brilliant work on Gravity, which now makes him the most likely to win the Best Director Oscar at this year's Academy Awards.
This week and next week will see the last two big guilds (the Directors Guild of America and the Writers Guild of America) announce their winners for excellence in film and TV for 2013. Just like with the previous guilds (the PGA and AG), their awards will give us an insight as to what to expect at this year's Oscars, and so, once again, I invite you to have a look at what I expect to be the winners in their biggest categories.
Tonight, the Producers Guild of America (PGA) revealed their choices for excellence in film and TV for 2013. It was a night where we were expecting to find out which film was the favorite for the Best Picture Oscar by seeing who received "The Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures". What we ended up with though was a truly historic evening.
The Screen Actors Guild has just finished handing out their awards for best achievements in film and TV acting for 2013 with only one surprise to be found in the five main categories.
Later this evening, the Screen Actors Guild will present their awards for excellence in acting for 2013. Just like with the Golden Globes, I thought it would be fun to throw together my predictions for who is most likely to be victorious in the five film categories. As you probably know, these are different from the previous awards in that they are voted on by the actors themselves as opposed to critics, so we're not necessarily going to be seeing the same results that we have been, though it's also a strong possibility that we will be seeing exactly that. So let's dive right into it with the first category.
