2020-2021 Oscar Nominations Reactions

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2020-2021 Oscar Nominations Reactions

The nominations for the 93rd Annual Academy Awards were (finally) unveiled March 15th with David Fincher’s Mank leading the way with 10 nominations. In a true sign of spreading the wealth, the next most nominated films are Mank’s fellow Best Picture contenders (The Father, Judas & the Black Messiah, Minari, Nomadland, Sound of Metal, The Trial of the Chicago 7) all nabbing 6 mentions, with the final top category nominee (Promising Young Woman) netting 5. Though this season has been far from business as usual given the ongoing pandemic, the nominations announcement featured the typical highs (yay “Husavik”!), lows (how does anyone pass on nominating Delroy Lindo in Da 5 Bloods?!), and head-scratchers (wait, who is the lead of Judas & the Black Messiah if both titular roles are nominated in supporting?).

I correctly predicted 95/118 of this year's nominees (about 80.5%), which was good enough for a 106th place finish of 9,329 participants at GoldDerby - top 1.1%! Though having finished 12th, 1st, 8th, and 4th in years past, it wasn’t my best showing. It also wasn’t my worst percentage, so, much like the Academy’s choices, there were some positives to balance the negatives.

Read on for a list of the nominations and my predictions results.

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Final 2020-2021 Oscar Nominations Predictions

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Final 2020-2021 Oscar Nominations Predictions

Cut! Print! That’s a wrap! The day has (finally) arrived - Oscar nominations morning!

The 93rd Annual Academy Awards nominations will be revealed on Monday morning by Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Nick Jonas in two segments beginning at 8:19am (you can view a live stream of the announcement via the Oscars website).

The nominations will honor the best in cinema from the past year (plus the first two months of 2021, as the Academy extended their eligibility window to accommodate 2020’s ever-shifting pandemic landscape). Though many major films pushed their releases to later this year or beyond, 2020 still had an adundance of quality films and performances to choose from if you knew where to look. Given the upended distribution patterns, we here at CineMunch still have quite a bit to catch up on before we finalize our picks for best of the year, but can vouch that many of this year’s likely honorees are pretty damn good.

Read on for my final nominations predictions!

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2020 Emmy Awards Predictions

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2020 Emmy Awards Predictions

The 72nd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards will be handed out this evening, honoring the best in television from the 2019-2020 season.

HBO is hoping “Succession” will succeed the finally ended “Game of Thrones” with a Drama Series victory, while Canadian underdog “Schitt’s Creek” hopes to follow the path of last year’s Comedy Series winner “Fleabag” with a win for its final season. It’s HBO’s incredible limited series “Watchmen”, however, that will walk away with the most Emmys this season. The virtual, semi-live festivities will air on ABC beginning at 8pm ET, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel. My full predictions are below…

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Final 92nd Oscars Predictions

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Final 92nd Oscars Predictions

And just like that, it’s time close the book on the cinematic year of 2019 with this evening’s presentation of the 92nd Annual Academy Awards! Here at CineMunch settled on what we would say is the definitive ranking of 2019's best films (and whaddaya know, one of our faves might just win the top Oscar, too!), so it's time to double down on some final predictions.

Last year’s race saw the more traditional (*cough* regressive) Green Book triumph over Roma, which was fighting to be the first foreign language film to snag Best Picture at the Oscars. A similar narrative looks set to unfold this year as World War I epic 1917 is your frontrunner, while a critically popular foreign film is nipping at its heels in South Korean phenomenon Parasite - which may have just enough passion within the industry to accomplish what Roma wasn’t able to a year ago.

Beyond 1917 vs Parasite in the top two races, there’s a healthy mix of sure-things (you can go ahead and engrave the statues for all four of this year’s acting winners right now) and wide-open races (particularly Original Song and Animated Feature). Each of this year’s nine Best Picture nominees stands a good chance at bringing home some hardware (except The Irishman - sorry, Marty!), but it will undoubtedly be 1917 walking away with the most trophies. We’re firmly in the Parasite camp over here and are thrilled it’s guaranteed at least one win (in the newly renamed International Film category), but we’re also hoping the shortened awards season results in a few surprises throughout the night.

So settle in, mix yourself a cocktail or four (in lieu of our traditional Oscar Menu, we’ll be feasting on a resplendent cheese plate and sipping cheap wine), and follow along with our predictions below!

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CineDrunk: Best of 2019 - Top Ten Lists

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Remember 2019? We don’t either.

Luckily we do remember a few of the movies we saw, enough to create personal top ten lists, one from each of your CineDrunk hosts. We’ve got Popes, portraits, and parasites, and we even found a few of those elusive Lady Directors!

These are the 2019 movies that stuck with us, the movies that helped us understand ourselves and our world, or just let us escape for a few hours, or reminded us of beauty we’d forgotten.

Cheers to 2019. Cheers to art. Cheers to voting the national tumor out of office in 2020. Onward!

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Combine ingredients with ice in your favorite glass and stir. Find a rocking chair, a favorite podcast (see below), and a cat. Sit and sip with joy.

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2019 Oscar Nominations Reactions

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2019 Oscar Nominations Reactions

The nominations for the 92nd Annual Academy Awards were unveiled last week with a record four films receiving double-digit nomination totals. Joker led the field with 11 citations, followed closely by The Irishman, 1917, and Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood with 10 each. As usual, the nominations announcement was met with some cheers (yay Parasite!) and some jeers (too many to list, but where on Earth is JLo?!?), but the truncated award season resulted in few truly left-field surprises.

I correctly predicted 98/124 of this year's nominees (about 79%), which was good enough for a 243rd place finish of 12,613 participants at GoldDerby - top 2%! Though having finished 12th, 1st, 8th, and 4th within the past six years, it wasn’t my best showing. It also wasn’t my worst percentage, so, much like the Academy’s choices, there were some positives to balance the negatives.

Read on for a list of the nominations and my predictions results.

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Final 2019 Oscar Nominations Predictions

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Final 2019 Oscar Nominations Predictions

Pencils down! It’s already that time of year again - Oscar nominations morning!

The 92nd Annual Academy Awards nominations will be announced by John Cho and Issa Rae on Monday morning in two segments beginning at 8:18am ET (you can view a live stream of the announcement via the Oscars website).

2019 featured some stellar films (a few of which will even be among the nominees!), though, as ever, the Academy will throw handfuls of nominations at movies we deem less than worthy (our annual Best of the Year lists will arrive early next month). And with the Oscars ceremony and awards season moved up earlier than usual this year, there’s bound to be some surprises once the dust has settled.

Read on for my final nominations predictions!

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2020 Golden Globe Awards Predictions

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2020 Golden Globe Awards Predictions

The marathon of awards season kicks off in earnest tonight with the presentation of the 77th Annual Golden Globe Awards!

Hollywood's best and brightest (or in some cases just newest) stars of ALL the screens will gather Sunday night dressed in their second finest frocks for the second most important red carpet of the year. The awards will be handed out by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, whose membership numbers only around 90, so their choices do make for the occasional head scratch, eyebrow raise, or spit take. Tom Hanks will receive this year's Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in film, and Ellen DeGeneres will take home the Carol Burnett Award for lifetime achievement in television.

Read on for my sure-to-be-inaccurate predictions, and tune in starting at 8pm ET on NBC as Ricky Gervais returns as host for this year’s drunken soiree!

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2019 Emmy Awards Predictions

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2019 Emmy Awards Predictions

The 71st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards will be handed out this evening, honoring the best in television from the 2018-2019 season.

HBO is hoping to capitalize on industry goodwill for the final seasons of two Emmy darlings in “Game of Thrones” and “Veep”, though it’s the Emmys - so anything’s possible! Taking a cue from this year’s Oscars ceremony, the show will have no official host and will air live on FOX beginning at 8pm ET. My full predictions are below…

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