Last year in Supporting Actor in a Drama Series we had a fierce three man race that ended with Aaron Paul taking his third Emmy for Breaking Bad. Now, with two of those men gone from contention, we just have Peter Dinklage (Game of Thrones) left in the race. Dinklage won an Emmy for the first season of the series…
Unlike the race for Drama Series, Comedy Series is looking to be more of the same. To put it simply, all six nominees from last year should return. With the new Emmy rules, we'll most likely be adding Golden Globe winner Transparent to the mix. However, there is room for some upsets. Let me start…
Like its drama counterpart, Lead Actress in a Comedy Series is a crowded field this year. Three-time winner Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Veep) returning to the race, overdue industry and fan favorite Amy Poehler (Parks and Recreation), and veteran actresses Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda (Grace and Frankie) co-starring in a new Netflix (which is red-hot at…
With the Oscars now over, it's time to shift our attention to the small screen and look ahead to the 2015 Emmy Awards. This year is like no other, with multiple changes to the Emmy rulebook, which will throw a wrench into several shows. The first new rule is probably the most shocking. The Academy…
The last time the winner of Best Picture wasn't at least nominated for Best Film Editing was 1980 when Ordinary People won the top prize. That's a long time. To make the trend even stronger, in 2005 Best Picture frontrunner Brokeback Mountain lost out to Crash. Guess what film wasn't nominated for Best Film Editing. Boyhood had a fight on it's hand…
The Oscar for Best Original Song is one of the few categories that doesn't have a lot of patterns or indicators as to who will win. The only major precursor is the Golden Globe, however since the year 2000, the two kudos have matched up a whopping 4 times. Even last year when "Let It…
What's better than the same 5 guys being nominated for SAG, Golden Globes, and Oscars? Maybe the same guy winning. J.K. Simmons has swept his way through the awards season on the coattails of his now infamous character of Fletcher, the abusive jazz director that demands excellence and a commitment to honoring the greats. There's…
We have an interesting situation in the category for Best Cinematography. The last five winners were Life of Pi, Hugo, Gravity, Avatar, and Inception. So, the easy prediction is for the visual effects driven film. However, we don't have one this year. Instead there's the single-take Birdman, black and white Ida, symmetrical The Grand Budapest Hotel, period drama Mr. Turner, and Roger Deakins' Unbroken. The easy…
A few things happened this year to make Best Original Score, my usual favorite category, the thorn in my side. First, the academy disqualified the scores of Birdman and Whiplash because the former wasn't prewritten for the film and the latter because there wasn't "enough" score. That already angered me enough, but when they egregiously snubbed Gone Girl, I was furious.…
With the expansion of the Best Picture category to ten nominees/whatever they're doing with this sliding scale, Best Visual Effects has become one of the easier categories to predict at the Oscars. The winner tends to be whichever nominee is also nominated in Best Picture. Take Gravity, Hugo, Life of Pi, and Inception as examples from recent years. However,…
