Every year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (AMPAS) announce their selections for the best achievements of 2015. This Sunday, AMPAS will give out its annual kudos and our members have each put together articles to celebrate the occasion. Below are all the links to our members’ work covering this event from predictions to commentary. Please enjoy!
2016 Oscar Predictions
Dustin Jansick @ Way Too Indie
2016 Oscars Preview
The 2016 Oscar-Nominated Short Films
Jerry Roberts @ Armchair Cinema
- Excerpt: As always, the Oscar nominated short films in both category are a mixture of the brilliant and the bizarre. Let’s take a look.
2016 Oscars: The Predictions
Steve Katz @ The Alpha Primitive
The 88th Academy Award predictions: the only list you’ll need
88th Oscars: Oscar Guy’s Final Thoughts
- Excerpt: Where I share my final thoughts on this year’s potential Oscar winners (Goes live at 10am Central).
The Armchair Critic’s (fairly accuate) Oscar Predictions
Jerry Roberts @ Armchair Cinema
The Armchair Critic’s Annual (and confidently accurate) Oscar Predictions
Jerry Roberts @ Armchair Cinema
- Excerpt: I think I have a pretty good track record, plus I’m also fairly confident that this year’s Oscars are so predictable that this won’t be too far off.
Breaking Down Oscar’s Production Design Nominees
David Upton @ The Film Experience
- Excerpt: A closer look at this year’s Oscar nominees for Production Design.
Catching up with Oscar nominated films at home
Sean Axmaker @ Stream On Demand
- Excerpt: The Academy Awards will be handed out on Sunday, February 28 in another star-studded, overproduced, self-congratulatory spectacle that we seem unable to resist. Are you caught up on the major nominees?
Checking Out the Oscar-Nominated Documentary Features
Alan Mattli @ Maximum Cinema [German]
- Excerpt: A look at the strengths and weaknesses of the five Oscar nominees for Best Documentary Feature.
Cole Smithey’s 2016 Oscar Predictions
Cole Smithey @ ColeSmithey.com
- Excerpt: [VIDEO ESSAY] Cole Smithey’s 2016 Oscar Predictions
Dealpool
Jerry Roberts @ Armchair Cinema
- Excerpt: I knew Ryan Reynolds’ passion for this character, and everyone knows his decade-long struggle to get this movie made after Deadpool’s disastrous cinematic debut in X-Men Origins: Wolverine (there’s more than one reference to it). What I didn’t expect was how much I would come to care about this character and his plight. Deadpool’s dialogue is a ceaseless string of often explosively funny one-liners, though I can’t decide if my favorite is the line about Hugh Jackman, the zamboni, the fourth wall, Jared Fogal, or the derogatory slap at creator Rob Leifeld. Yet, I cared about what happened to him because I cared about the story of the man under the mask.
Favorite Oscar Moments from the Past
Betty Jo Tucker @ ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Final Oscar Predictions: ‘Fasten Your Seatbelts. It’s Going to Be a Bumpy Night’
- Excerpt: At the end of one of the toughest, ugliest award seasons ever, a look back at what was a really good year for movies.
Just How Annual Are The Annual Academy Awards?
- Excerpt: Mad Max is facing annihilation … again.
Mis predicciones –
Francisco Cangiano @ CineXpress [Spanish]
Mis predicciones – Oscars 2016
Francisco Cangiano @ CineXpress [Spanish]
The Nightmare Gallery vs. The 88th Academy Awards
Daniel Lackey @ The Nightmare Gallery
- Excerpt: It’s time to get ready for Hollywood’s whitest night—I mean brightest night—with yet another round of Oscar predictions!
No Concessions: My Oscar Ballot, 2016
- Excerpt: My Oscar ballot for Sunday’s ceremony.
One Last Look at the Nominees
Dan Lybarger @ Just In Case It Matters
Oscar Nominations: Please Put All Complaints Into the Suggestion Box (So They Can Be Promptly Thrown Into the Garbage)
Candice Frederick @ Reel Talk Online
Oscar Predictions
Susan Granger @ www.susangranger.com
- Excerpt: A dark cloud hangs over the Oscars this year…
Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 13
- Excerpt: A look at the winners and losers of Precursor Week 13
Oscars 2016 Final Predictions
Pete Gkaris @ Movies Ltd. [Greek]
Oscars 2016 Preview: Best Foreign Language Film
- Excerpt: An overview of the films nominated for Best Foreign Language Film
Oscars: Where have all the women gone
Joseph Proimakis @ Popaganda.gr [Greek]
- Excerpt: In what was dubbed Year of the Woman, we’ve come down to an Oscar race revolving around a single white male with a bear on his back. How did that happen?
Picking Winners At The 88th Annual Academy Awards
- Excerpt: Here’s hoping Chris Rock does his best Ricky Gervais as far as not caring about political correctness or duty to kissing up to the celebrities all dressed-up nice because having him host the 2016 Oscars ceremony amidst the whole #OscarsSoWhite controversy is an opportunity not to be squandered.
Picks and Predictions for the 88th Annual Academy Awards (aka, the 2016 Oscars)
Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies (blog)
Previsão de Vencedores Dos Óscares – 1ª Parte
João Pinto @ Portal Cinema [Portuguese]
Previsão de Vencedores Dos Óscares – 2ª Parte
João Pinto @ Portal Cinema [Portuguese]
What We Learned from the Berlin Film Festival
Will Win / Should Win: Breaking Down Oscar’s Best Feature Documentary Race
- Excerpt: This year boast a field of five strong contenders.