The end of any Oscar season also marks the end of all of that season's narratives, and when those wrap-ups are unexpected, you retrace your steps and ...
We're almost there! Three days until the winners are revealed, after which in no time flat the 2011-12 Oscar season will become an ancient, bitter mem...
Today, let's take on the who-the-hell-knows categories - the Oscar contests that are traditionally almost impossible to guess even if you've seen the ...
The Oscars, as I hope we've established by now, are not simply a beauty contest. But when it comes to the half-dozen categories that reward visuals, t...
It's been almost six months since I wrote my first column on the 2012 Oscar race, and we're finally at predictions week. The ballots are in (or will b...
As I hope I've made clear by this point in our Oscar journey, I love awards. I cover them, I handicap them, I tweet them, I do useless math about them...
On February 26, we are, I think, likely to see Viola Davis walk to the stage to accept a Best Actress Oscar for playing a maid. It will have been abou...
As the Academy continues to discuss an accelerated awards calendar for future Oscars (coming in 2013: Goodbye, paper ballots; hello, electronic voting...