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Here it is. The moment you have been waiting for. All 24 categories for the 92nd Oscars analyzed and predicted just in time to enter your office pools (just don’t blame me if you don’t win). Some of these categories could produce surprising results, others you can take to the bank right now, and I will indicate which…

After giving our best spitball regarding the Oscar Best Picture, Directing and Screenplay races, in Part 2 of our internecine PMC smackdown we take on all the acting categories and offer opinions on several others down the ballot that will be crucial if you want to win your Oscar pool. I was joined by prognosticators…

And now the voting for the 92nd annual Oscars begins. Today, ballots go live online for all eligible members of the Academy, and that numbers roughly 8,733 at last official count. The overall membership rolls of AMPAS now number 9,794, but not all are allowed to weigh in on just who should win in all 24…

Oscar nominations come out at the crack of dawn Monday morning, so it is time again for our video slugfest forecasting just which movies are on top and which may be left out in the all-important Best Picture race, especially now that all the major guilds and BAFTA have chimed in with their nominees. These groups are…

Earlier this week we duked it out over which movies stand the best chance at this point of nabbing Best Picture Oscar nominations.  Now Part 2 of our session finds Deadline’s Pete Hammond,  Indiewire’s Anne Thompson, Variety’s Tim Gray, and our moderator and host Gold Derby’s Tom O’Neil giving the 411 on who is out in…

In front of an invited audience of awards publicists, strategists and other executives on Monday, four brands under the Penske Media label sent their top Oscar prognosticators to dish and dissect this year’s Best Picture Oscar race. Gathering at PMC’s brand-new studio in Los Angeles, Gold Derby’s Tom O’Neil moderated…

Gold Derby’s Tom O’Neil and I conclude our series of smackdowns trying to predict the major categories at this year’s Primetime Emmy Awards which get handed out on Sunday night. Today we go head to head on the Limited Series and TV movie categories where consensus is hard to find.  This may be the most competitive and…

With so many nominees to choose from, Academy voters (of which I am one) have a tough task just trying to get through all the content and come up with some deserving winners. So, let me help my fellow members as I choose a few that I feel would be great to see up on the Microsoft Stage come Sunday. Although it likely…

There will be some surprises and maybe even a record broken on September 22 at the 71st Primetime Emmy Awards when they start handing out hardware in the top acting categories. Emmy Predictions: Final Drama, Comedy, Limited Series & Movie Winner Picks Yesterday, we handed out our final Emmy predictions for Outstanding…

At one time this was one of Emmy's most sought after and prestigious prizes, but as the Limited Series format became more attractive, and a magnet for top talent, the TV Movie category is just a shell of what it used to be. The numbers say it all. Only one of the five nominees received more than two nominations…

Without question, this category has been the one in recent years where television's greater ambitions have been showcased, and thus, also a category that is uber-competitive. Limited Series in fact could also describe a number of contenders in the regular Drama and Comedy categories as well. Take Amazon's Fleabag, a…

Only two shows among the very crowded eight Drama Series nominees this season were actually in this race last year—an unusual occurrence. Of course, one of those shows is the seemingly unbeatable Game of Thrones, breaking all nomination records with a remarkable 32 nods this season. What a way to go out. Like Veep, Thr…