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Oscar nominations will be announced bright and early on Tuesday morning beginning at 5:18AM PT. In advance of that the top dog experts in this field from the major Penske Media Corp (PMC) brands of Deadline, Variety, Indiewire, and Gold Derby got together for their latest predictions smackdown in order to give their…

Gold Derby’s Tom O’Neil and I take on some key Emmy categories and predict likely nominees as well as the front-runners for eventual winners. With last year’s top Comedy Series Schitt’s Creek and top Drama Series Succession out of the running this year, the fields in both categories might be less competitive but also…

With just over two weeks to go before the big night, we are at it again trying to make sense of this very fluid Oscar season and this (in some ways) very  unpredictable race. Gold Derby’s Tom O’Neil, Variety’s soothsayer Tim Gray and Deadline’s Pete Hammond enter into their latest smackdown and assess the odds of who…

Gold Derby’s Tom O’Neil and I go head to head as we kick off the new awards-season series of videos analyzing the race as we see it. Today we talk Harvey Weinstein’s exit from the Oscar carnival and what that may mean without the man who was really the architect of awards campaigning in the modern era. We also examine…

Deadline’s parent company Penske Media Corp said today it has promoted Deadline publisher Stacey Farish to chief revenue officer and GM of Deadline as well as its sister sites TVLine and Gold Derby. In the expanded role, Farish will be responsible for revenue and business operations at the three brands. That includes…

After tackling the current state of the Best Picture and Best Actor races earlier in the week, Gold Derby’s Tom O’Neil and I  look at the field for Best Actress — arguably the most competitive lineup in many years. In fact, the contenders here outnumber those for Best Actor and that’s usually the reverse. Of course…

Gold Derby’s Tom O’ Neil and I are back at the smackdowns for this year’s increasingly interesting and tight Oscar races, today having a back and forth, sometimes civil and sometimes not, conversation about the state of the Best Picture contest. Many critics’ groups have been having their say and the next phase…

Okay, Television Academy members, get your ballots in NOW as online voting for this year’s Emmy contest ends tonight at 10 PM (PT). Of course, with over 400 shows to consider, you need all the time in the world to be prepared to parcel it all down to a few shows in a measly 113 categories. But the moment of truth is…

The Oscar race is ever-changing, seemingly on a daily basis now as critics groups, SAG and others weigh in, but it is clear no front runner has emerged yet. As one group giveth to a contender, another comes along and taketh away. This is turning into the most wide open and unpredictable contest in a long while. The…

In the first of several “friendly” Oscar-season smackdowns, Gold Derby’s Tom O’Neil and I take on the likely top contenders for Best Picture slots and come out swinging. The bulk of the conversation is based on the top current-ranked top 10 most likely nominees according to Gold Derby handicapping (so don’t blame me…

According to Gold Derby founder Tom O'Neil, at this point in the Oscar race—remember, the actual event isn't until February 28—19 Oscar pundits are split between seven films. Here's Tom’s take on the current standings: Spotlight, Thomas McCarthy’s docudrama about the 2001 scandal over sex abuse by Catholic priests in…