This Sunday marks the end of yet another awards season. The lead-up to the Oscars has been a curiously staid affair (you know there’s not much happening when so much hay gets made of something as unremarkable as Timothee Chalamet’s … Continue reading The Road to the 98th Oscars Part 2: Predicting the Winners

Welcome to The Avocado’s annual Academy Award nominations live discussion thread! It promises to be another exciting morning, with Sinners, One Battle After Another, Hamnet, Marty Supreme, and Frankenstein among the films aiming to be this year’s most-nominated. You can catch up … Continue reading 98th Academy Award Nominations LIVE Discussion Thread

Thursday morning at 8:30 EST, Danielle Brooks and Lewis Pullman will announce the nominations for the 98th Academy Awards. 2025 was a big year for Hollywood, with the domestic market continuing to rebuild from the one-two punch of the Covid … Continue reading The Road to the 98th Oscars Part 1: Predicting the Nominees

It’s finally upon us! The 97th Academy Awards! Hollywood will descend upon the Dolby Theatre tomorrow night, and it’s likely to be the most exciting Oscars night in years for Academy obsessives like yours truly. This season has had few … Continue reading The Road to the 97th Oscars Part 2: Predicting the Winners

Welcome to The Avocado’s annual Academy Award nominations live discussion thread! It promises to be another exciting morning, with Dune: Part Two, Wicked, A Complete Unknown, Conclave, and The Brutalist among the films aiming to be this year’s most-nominated. You can catch up before the … Continue reading 97th Academy Award Nominations LIVE Discussion Thread

Yet again, the Oscar nominations are bearing down on us amidst significant upheaval in the film industry (and I don’t mean the appointment of Sylvester Stallone, Mel Gibson, and Jon Voight as “Special Ambassadors” to Hollywood, presumably to revive the … Continue reading The Road to the 97th Oscars Part 1: Predicting the Nominees

There’s no easy way to say this: we’ve reached the end of the 2023-2024 awards season. Yes, tomorrow night is the big one, the last hurrah, the nerd Super Bowl, the 96th Academy Awards. Before you start to fret though, … Continue reading The Road to the 96th Oscars Part 2: Predicting the Winners

Welcome to The Avocado’s annual Academy Award nominations live discussion thread! It promises to be another exciting morning, with Barbie, Killers of the Flower Moon, Oppenheimer, and Poor Things among the films aiming to be this year’s most-nominated. You can catch up … Continue reading 96th Academy Award Nominations LIVE Discussion Thread

Happy Oscar Nominations Eve! Twelve months have flown by, and Zazie Beetz and Jack Quaid will be making the big announcement on Tuesday morning at 8:30 AM ET. It’s been an exceptionally odd year for film, with runaway successes (and … Continue reading The Road to the 96th Oscars Part 1: Nomination Predictions

Well Avocadoans, we’ve arrived at two important milestones in this year’s Oscars race: firstly, the Oscars air this Sunday! More importantly, though, after three years Covid has finally made its way to Barad-dûr and your pal Mordor is not a … Continue reading The Road to the 95th Oscars Part 2: Predicting the Winners

Welcome to The Avocado’s annual Academy Award nominations live discussion thread! It promises to be another exciting morning, with Everything Everywhere All at Once, Top Gun: Maverick, The Fabelmans, All Quiet on the Western Front, and Avatar: The Way of Water aiming to be this year’s most-nominated … Continue reading 95th Academy Award Nominations LIVE Discussion Thread

It’s hard to believe that Oscar nominations are already upon us, but it really is that time of year again! The Academy will be pretending to have their finger on the pulse of the film industry bright and early tomorrow, … Continue reading The Road to the 95th Oscars Part 1: Predicting the Nominees

A year after Nomadland made its way largely unopposed to monumental Best Picture and Director wins for Chloe Zhao, Jane Campion’s subversive Western The Power of the Dog has hit a major roadblock en route to what was looking like … Continue reading The Road to the 94th Oscars Part 2: The Triumph of the Dog?

Welcome to The Avocado’s annual Academy Award nominations live discussion thread! It promises to be another exciting morning, with The Power of the Dog, Dune, West Side Story, Licorice Pizza, and Belfast aiming to be this year’s most-nominated films. You can … Continue reading 94th Academy Award Nominations LIVE Discussion Thread

Welcome back, for the first time this season, to The Road to the Oscars! At the time this post goes live, we will be exactly 24 hours from the announcement of the nominations for the 94th Academy Awards. At 8:18 … Continue reading The Road to the 94th Oscars, Part 1: Twas the Day Before Noms…

Ahhhh… That sigh of relief could only mean one thing: the impending end of another Oscars season. Not only that, but the longest Oscars season since the very earliest years of the awards! A little over a (pandemic-fueled, cinema-free, politically-charged) … Continue reading The Road to the 93rd Oscars, Part III: Final Predictions!

Good morning one and all, and welcome to The Avocado’s annual Academy Award nominations live discussion thread! One (very tumultuous) year after Parasite made history, we’re looking at what should easily be the most diverse set of nominations in Oscars … Continue reading 93rd Academy Award Nominations LIVE Discussion Thread