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FINAL 2024 Oscar Predictions: ADAPTED SCREENPLAY and ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Erik Anderson March 3, 2024

With the BAFTA, Critics Choice and USC Scripter in hand (and likely the WGA but those aren’t happening until a full month after the Oscars),... Read More

FINAL 2024 Oscar Predictions: ORIGINAL SCORE and ORIGINAL SONG

Erik Anderson January 18, 2024

In Original Score we have just two that have gone all the way with the most precursors an Oscar category has: BAFTA, Golden Globe, Critics... Read More

FINAL 2024 Oscar Predictions: ADAPTED SCREENPLAY and ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Erik Anderson January 18, 2024

With the writers branch of the Academy declaring the screenplays for both Greta Gerwig’s Barbie and Ava DuVernay’s Origin must compete in Adapted (and not... Read More

2024 Oscar Predictions: ADAPTED SCREENPLAY and ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY (November)

Erik Anderson November 13, 2023

Keeping Barbie in Original Screenplay for the time being, where its WGA designation is, until the Academy deems it otherwise and likewise Ava DuVernay’s Origin... Read More

2024 Oscar Predictions: ADAPTED SCREENPLAY and ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY (October)

Erik Anderson October 18, 2023

The top three in both Adapted (Oppenheimer, Killers of the Flower Moon, Poor Things) and Original (Barbie, The Holdovers, Past Lives) remain in place and... Read More

2024 Oscar Predictions: ADAPTED SCREENPLAY and ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY (September)

Erik Anderson September 19, 2023

After weeks of debate and discussion among awards fans and pundits, Warner Bros officially announced it will run the Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach-penned Barbie... Read More

2024 Oscar Predictions: ADAPTED SCREENPLAY and ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY (August)

Erik Anderson August 16, 2023

Barbenheimer strikes again, as Barbie and Oppenheimer each rise to the top spot of the respective screenplay categories, original and adapted. I know there is... Read More

2024 Oscar Predictions: ADAPTED SCREENPLAY and ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY (July)

Erik Anderson July 20, 2023

Not a lot of movement in the screenplay categories this month; Apple’s Killers of the Flower Moon and Universal’s Oppenheimer should be able to maintain... Read More

2024 Oscar Predictions: ADAPTED SCREENPLAY and ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY (June)

Erik Anderson June 22, 2023

Amazon/MGM has officially dated Rachel Morrison’s Flint Strong, written by Academy Award winner Barry Jenkins and starring Ryan Destiny and Academy Award nominee Brian Tyree... Read More

2024 Oscar Predictions: ADAPTED SCREENPLAY and ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY (May)

Erik Anderson May 9, 2023

I’m kicking off my early 2024 Oscar predictions this season with Adapted Screenplay and Original Screenplay, a full four months earlier than last year. Why?... Read More