Frontrunner Friday Oscar Predictions: Paul Thomas Anderson Inches Closer (2/13/26)

2026 Oscar Predictions: The Final Lap in Most Predictable Oscar Race in History

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Print Bluesky WhatsApp Threads Email The Oscars aren’t a game. Or at least they didn’t used to be, until 1999, when an unmarried single mother with a one-year-old baby living in a guest house in Van Nuys decided to make them into one. It would be called OscarWatch because “I thought it would be fun to run a newspaper.” Back then, there were predicting sites like Gold Derby with “experts” that ranked the contender…

Frontrunner Friday Oscar Predictions: Paul Thomas Anderson Inches Closer (2/13/26)

Last weekend, Paul Thomas Anderson won the Directors Guild of America (DGA) award for Theatrical Feature Film for One Battle After Another, moving one step closer to securing his first Oscar. With Critics Choice and the Golden Globe also in hand, sights are next set on BAFTA on the 22nd, where he's also expected to…

Oscars: Picks and Predictions

Chloe Zhao, director of Hamnet (Wikimedia Commons) With the 2026 Oscars round the corner, bookies and cinephiles alike are hedging their bets on the outcomes of the biggest awards ceremony of the Western (mainstream) cinematic sphere. With big names and a variety of genres, tones and styles in the running, predicting who will hold the famous golden statuette is no easy business. Across all categories, Sinners overshadows many of the other films,…