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A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit. Oscar nominations are upon us, coming up starting at 5:19 a.m. PT on Monday, so finally we can get the answer to the question I posed in this column last week about engagement of Academy voters in this strange Covid-extended season: “Is anybody…

It's always hard to pick a winner (I have been making predictions all week on Deadline), and I have some favorites (yes, I am one of the 23,000 or so eligible Emmy voters) in what has turned out to be an exceptional year for television. A number of people didn't get nominations who should have, for example Chris Evans…

Another year, another Emmys. Well, maybe it's not that simple this time around, because this 72nd annual celebration of television's best is destined to be anything but just another Emmys. The worldwide coronavirus pandemic has turned everything upside down. We've seen civil unrest in major cities, plus a wild…

A returning champ vs. another past winner sets up the possibility of a repeat victor for Lead Actor in a Drama Series, but there are a couple of veterans in the mix who have 13 acting Emmy nods between them and no win, so sentiment could be a factor. There's also a brilliant Scottish-born star whose time may have come…

This may be the toughest overall competition of any Emmy category this year. In fact, in a year where Elisabeth Moss, Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon, Mandy Moore, and many others weren't nominated, you might be right to get the feeling that the contest for Lead Actress In A Drama Series is going to be brutal. We…

Previous winners of the Outstanding Comedy Series category in just about the entirety of the past decade—Fleabag, Veep, Modern Family—aren't a factor this year, so there's a chance for new blood to take over. Only 2018 winner The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is back in the race, and in a very big way, with 20 nominations…

Aside from Ramy Youssef, this category is loaded with veteran names. Anderson, Cheadle, Danson, Douglas and Levy are a formidable quintet making up the field for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series, who have all been in this category before, but only one of them has previously prevailed—and not for the show in…

After Phoebe Waller-Bridge crushed the Emmys last year, robbing Julia Louis-Dreyfus of a seventh statuette for Veep in her final year and also depriving Rachel Brosnahan of a second win in a row for The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, the Lead Actress in a Comedy Series category seems to be a bit of a toss-up this year. There…

HBO has been familiar in the Outstanding Limited Series winners circle, last year triumphing overwhelmingly with Chernobyl, even though Netflix gave them a run for their money with When They See Us. This year the two will go head to head again, but HBO seems to have the magic touch here, and, if not them, it has been…

This once-proud category fell on hard times when the networks abandoned the format, and increasingly cable outlets did too. HBO and Netflix have kept it alive, the latter finding safe harbor here the past three years with an anthology series of 'movies' from its Black Mirror franchise, which was finally ruled…

Perhaps the most prestigious, and this year at least most competitive of all major Emmy races, the Emmy Best Drama Series competition is fierce. But talk to most pundits and they generally agree that Succession, HBO’s successor to three-time winner Game of Thrones, is the one to beat in the race. That forecast doesn’t…

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…