FEINBERG FORECAST: Scott’s Final Projections for the 84th Academy Awards
With just one week remaining until the 84th Academy Awards, I am now prepared to share my final projections for all 24 Oscar categories.
Posts Tagged ‘Projections’
Monday February 20th, 2012
Sunday February 19th, 2012
FEINBERG FORECAST: Spotlighting The Three Oscar Shorts Categories
When it comes to predicting the winners of the three Oscars devoted to short films — animated, documentary, and live-action — most people just wing it and check off either a random or the most appealingly-titled nominee. Any serious awards buff, however, knows not to do that, for those three predictions can completely make or break one’s chances in an Oscar pool!
Instead, one should devote a — yes — short amount of time to actually seeing the nominees, which is easier to do these days than ever before thanks to a program sponsored by ShortsHD through which all 15 nominated films are shown at theaters across the country in the weeks leading up to the Oscars. This offering, now in its seventh year, is as popular as ever — indeed, just last weekend it brought in more money than in any other weekend yet.
If you absolutely cannot make it to the theater, though, you can still sleep easy, because I’ve checked all of the nominees for you and produced a tip-sheet. I can’t guarantee that I’ll nail all of these categories, but, if you employ my picks for your Oscar pool and only one or two of my three picks pan out, that’s still probably one or two more correct picks than you otherwise would have had, so… you’re welcome!
Friday February 17th, 2012
FEINBERG FORECAST: The Screenplay Races
This is my assessment of the Oscar landscape for the 2012 adapted screenplay and best original screenplay Oscars.
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
1. Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, Jim Rash (The Descendants)
Monday February 13th, 2012
FEINBERG FORECAST: A Look at the Oscar Landscape With Just 2 Weeks to Go
What follows is my assessment of the Oscar landscape with just three weeks remaining until the 84th Academy Awards. (21 of 24 categories are addressed below; the three shorts categories will be the subject of a separate post later this week.)
Monday February 6th, 2012
FEINBERG FORECAST: The Oscar Landscape With Just 3 Weeks to Go Until the Big Night
What follows is my assessment of the Oscar landscape with just three weeks remaining until the 84th Academy Awards. (21 of 24 categories are addressed below; the three shorts categories will be the subject of a separate post later this week.)
Monday January 30th, 2012
FEINBERG FORECAST: New Landscape After Oscar Noms, DGA and SAG Awards
What follows is my latest assessment of each of the Oscar categories (except for the three devoted to shorts, which I will get to in the coming days), along with a list of the major precursor awards it has won (in orange) and/or for which it has been nominated (in purple); some nominations are still pending. I welcome your thoughts in the comments section at the bottom of the post.
Sunday January 22nd, 2012
FEINBERG FORECAST: Scott’s Final Picks for Tuesday’s 84th Academy Award Nominations
On Tuesday morning, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will put an end to months of speculation — including plenty by me, as reflected in charts posted on this blog every weekend since September — by announcing its nominees for the 84th Academy Awards. That means that it is now time, for better or worse, for me to man up and lock in my final predictions of what/who those nominees will be.
I urge you to keep in mind that what follows is not necessarily what I feel should happen — that can be better gleaned from reading my year-end top 10 list – but rather what I think will happen, based on months of screenings (I’ve seen all of the likely nominees, many multiple times), observations (of critics, guilds, and other awards-bestowers), and conversations (with pundits and voters).
I have historically done quite well when it comes to forecasting Oscar nominations — for instance, I projected best picture noms for The Reader (2008) and for The Blind Side(2009) when virtually no one else did — but you have to prove yourself anew each year, and I hope to do just that.
Regardless of how things pan out, thank you for taking the time to read and consider what I have to say, and please consider sharing your own forecasts in the comments section of this post!
Tuesday January 17th, 2012
FEINBERG FORECAST: Flurry of Nominations and Awards Leave an Altered Oscar Landscape
What follows is my latest assessment of all of the high-profile Oscar categories, along with a list of the major precursor awards it has won (in orange) and/or for which it has been nominated (in purple) — some nominations, of course, are still pending. I welcome your thoughts in the comments section at the bottom of the post.
Monday January 9th, 2012
FEINBERG FORECAST: With 49 Days Until the Oscars, ‘The Artist’ Remains the Frontrunner
What follows is my latest assessment of all of the high-profile Oscar categories. I welcome your thoughts in the comments section at the bottom of the post.
Tuesday January 3rd, 2012
FEINBERG FORECAST: ‘War Horse,’ ‘Drive’ and ‘Bridesmaids’ Surging as Oscar Ballots Arrive
What follows is my latest assessment of all of the high-profile Oscar categories, along with commentary about the latest developments in each. I welcome your thoughts in the comments section at the bottom of the post.