Nice pick! Any particular season(s)/episode(s) that you think he should have won for?

I think his strongest episodes were “Mr. & Mrs. John Sacrimoni Request” from Season 6 pt. 1, and “Stage 5” from Season 6 pt. 2.

I do think that all of the frontrunners will get their Oscars this year, but if I had to predict an upset, I would say it might happen in the Supporting Actress category. Scarlett Johansson and Margot Robbie both had strong years with multiple Oscar films under their belt, and if Florence Pugh can win BAFTA, that could translate to an…[Read more]

Fair enough. Don’t forget Toy Story 4 won the Producers Guild Award too!

I would still bet on Toy Story 4 winning the Oscar and BAFTA. Like the Oscars, every BAFTA winner for Best Animated Feature was also nominated for PGA, Golden Globe, Critics Choice and Annie. Toy Story 4 is the only BAFTA nominee that meets those credentials.

Every time an upset happened at the Oscars (Happy Feet, Big Hero 6, Brave), they all…[Read more]

Every Oscar winner for Best Animated Feature has also been nominated (and most have won) at BAFTA. The only films nominated at both this year are Toy Story 4 and Klaus. BAFTA also nominated Frozen II and Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon.

Here is a list of all Oscar winners for Best Animated Feature since 2006 (when BAFTA and the Golden…[Read more]

As a whole, I think the Oscars got it right for which films should and shouldn’t have been nominated, but while the Cars movies are not among Pixar’s best, Cars 3 was a great return to form (after the studio went drastically off-course for Cars 2), and possibly better than the first film. A nomination for Best Animated Feature would have been…[Read more]

I would say the ones that matter the most would have to be the ones with the best track record of lining up with the Oscars’ Best Picture winners.

Of the last 20 years, here is how each precursor’s top prize has lined up with the Oscars’ Best Picture winner:

PGA – 14/20 (70%)
DGA – 14/20 (70%)
CC – 14/20 (70%)
WGA – 11/20 (55%)
GG – 11/20…[Read more]

Technically you could add a GG win for Parasite, since Foreign Language films aren’t eligible for BP.

True Romance is great. If I included it, I would have had it in my Top 3.

My personal picks:

GoodFellas (1990) – Best Actor (Ray Liotta)

Boyz n the Hood (1991) – Best Picture, Supporting Actor (Ice Cube)

The Silence of the Lambs (1991) – Best Supporting Actor (Ted Levine)

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) – Best Picture

Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) – Best Picture, Best Actor (Robin Williams), Actress (Sally Field)

The…[Read more]

Since others have ranked them, so will I:

Masterpieces (10/10)
1. A New Hope
2. The Empire Strikes Back
3. Return of the Jedi

Great & under-appreciated (9/10)
4. The Last Jedi

Very good (8/10)
5. Revenge of the Sith

Enjoyable, but overrated (7/10)
6. The Force Awakens
7. Rogue One

Not bad, but Alden Ehrenreich is no Harrison Ford (6/10)
8.…[Read more]

40% of this year’s acting nominees have already won acting Oscars. Has there ever been this many former winners nominated in a single year?

Leonardo DiCaprio
Charlize Theron
Renee Zellweger
Tom Hanks
Anthony Hopkins
Al Pacino
Joe Pesci
Kathy Bates

If Dean makes the final 3, he will more than likely mention to the jury that he missed his chance to play the “real” legacy advantage, and boast about his copy that he played earlier. Thankfully, if that happens, Jamal will clear things up and point out to the jury that both legacy advantages were useless, giving us all the chance to see Dean…[Read more]