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FBC 2024 Oscars Coverage, Part VII: Predicting the winners, part 3- the screenplay categories

March 5, 2024March 3, 2024by Matt DrufkeLeave a Comment

When Killers Of The Flower Moon was the only Best Picture nominee not nominated in the screenplay category, that kind of let you know that it’s stock was dropping. Still, the nine other nominees (plus May December) have made up one of the strongest years for screenplays in a very long time. Both the original and adapted categories have felt very fluid and it still kind of feels like a toss-up. But, the votes are in and predictions need to be made.

With that said, let’s get original and adaptive!

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Music/Movies, Oscars, Uncategorized

FBC 2024 Oscars Coverage, Part V: Predicting the winners, part 1- Animated & International Feature

March 3, 2024March 3, 2024by Matt DrufkeLeave a Comment

As we are days away from the Oscars, let’s get into predicting! All this week, I’ll be laying out my choices for who will (and who should) be winning the nominations. I used to have a category called “Upset Special”, but I’m now changing that to a simpler question: “Does anyone else have a chance to win?” And, as always, I’ll be letting you know who got absolutely snubbed by not even being nominated (and, for every snub, I saw what should have replaced it).

Who will be walking home with Oscars on Sunday, March 10? Let’s do some predicticating!!!!

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Music/Movies, Oscars

FBC 2024 Oscar Coverage, Part III: Recapping the nominations- Winners and Losers (and something in-between)

January 23, 2024by Matt DrufkeLeave a Comment

When it was all said and done this morning, we got all of the nominations for the 96th Academy Awards. Overall in my predictions, I did ok (43/55). There were a lot of surprises, so let’s just get into who is happy right now, who is bummed out, and who is feeling… well, kind of muddled.

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