2026 Oscar Predictions: Sinners Leads the Nominations with 16!

Sasha Stone, Jeremy Jentzen and Scott Kernen deconstruct the nominations for the 98th Academy Awards. The snubs, the dominant films, the predictions!

2026 Oscar Predictions: Final Oscar Predictions for 2026!

Sasha Stone, Scott Kernen and Jeremy Jentzen spend two hours talking about Oscar nominations in every category for the 98th Academy Awards.

2026 Oscars: Frontrunners and Challengers Post Golden Globe Ceremony - Who is Ahead?

AwardsDaily.com's Sasha Stone, Scott Kernen and Jeremy Jentzen discuss the fallout from the Golden Globes. Is it possible we have a split year between...

Frontrunners and Challengers - SAG, DGA, PGA and Golden Globes Predictions!

Sasha Stone, Scott Kernen and Jeremy Jentzen discuss all of the upcoming award predictions and try to lock in what could happen at the Directors Guild...

2026 Oscars: Frontrunners and Challengers! Mark Johnson Drops By to Chat About the Short Lists

Mark Johnson (The Contending) drops by to discuss the Academy's short lists in various categories. What's it and what's out. With Sasha Stone, Scott...

2026 Oscars: Frontrunners and Challengers - The Critics and the Golden Globes Choose a Frontrunner

Frontrunners and Challengers: Predicting Big Awards Week--NBR, NYFCC, Critics Choice, Golden Globes!

Sasha Stone, Scott Kernen and Jeremy Jentzen talk this coming Oscar week with a flurry of wins and nominations. The National Board of Review, the Crit...

2026 Oscar Predictions: Frontrunners and Challengers Wicked For Good Hits

Sasha Stone, Scott Kernen and Jeremy Jentzen talk the Oscar race as Wicked for Good hits and the embargo lifts. What does it mean for Ariana Grande's...

2026 Oscars: Frontrunners and Challengers with Special Guest Mark Johnson

Special guest Mark Johnson (AwardsWatch, The Contending) joins Sasha Stone, Scott Kernen and Jeremy Jentzen for a lengthy discussion about the state o...

2026 Oscars: Frontrunners and Challengers

Sasha Stone, Scott Kernen and Jeremy Jentzen on what wins PGA, DGA and Best Picture. Plus our top twenty favorite Best Actress winners.

2026 Oscars: Frontrunners and Challengers - The Gothams Drop, Wicked Reax, plus our top 20 Best Picture Faves

Sasha Stone, Scott Kernen and Jeremy Jentzen discuss the Gotham nominations and the Wicked reactions. In the second half, we name our favorite 20 Best...

2026 Oscars: Frontrunners and Challengers - What Will Win Best Picture?

Heading out of October, the Middleburg fest resulted in two winners for the Audience Award - Hamnet and Rental Family. The AFI Fest is coming to a clo...

2026 Oscars: Frontrunners and Challengers

Sasha Stone, Scott Kernen and Jeremy Jentzen discuss the Best Picture race and why Hamnet might be the one to beat. Does emotion drive the Best Pictur...

2026 Oscars: Frontrunners and Challengers Episode #4

Sasha Stone, Scott Kernen and Jeremy Jentzen discuss the impact of Marty Supreme on the race and where each category now stands.

2026 Oscars: Frontrunners and Challengers Episode 2

Mark Johnson joins Sasha Stone, Scott Kernen and Jeremy Jentzen to dive into the Best Picture race and the other categories to discuss the frontrunner...

2026 Oscars: Frontrunners and Challengers Episode 1

Sasha Stone, Jeremy Jentzen and Scott Kernen run through Best Director, the acting categories and Best Picture looking for our frontrunners and challe...

2026 Oscar Predictions - One Battle After Another Plus Robert Redford Dies

Sasha Stone, Scott Kernen and Jeremy Jentzen talk Oscar predictions plus paying tribute to Robert Redford on his death at the age of 89.

2026 Oscar Predictions: One Battle After Another Shakes Up the Oscar Race

Sasha Stone, Scott Kernen and Jeremy Jentzen talk about One Battle After Another and how it landed with the critics. Does that make it an Oscar frontr...

2026 Oscars: Analyzing the Race Post Telluride and Venice

Sasha Stone, Scott Kernen, and Jeremy Jentzen have a long conversation about Telluride and Venice Film Festivals. Scott Kernene attended and viewed al...

2026 Oscars: Episode 4 of the Oscar Primer - The Tastemakers

Sasha Stone continues the Oscar Primer series by talking about the tastemakers who head to film festivals everywhere and help shape the Oscar race.

2026 Oscar Predictions: Kicking off All This and the Oscars Too

Sasha Stone begins the weekly podcast series leading up to the 2026 Oscars, featuring new guests Jeremy Jentzen and Scott Kernen. From AwardsDaily.com...

2026 Oscars: Oscar Primer Episode 3 - the Stats with Special Guest Mark Johnson

Mark Johnson joins Sasha Stone to discuss how important stats are to predicting the Oscars. We also go through our preliminary predictions before Veni...

Oscar Primer Episode Two - The Critics

The film critics dominate the Oscars now in a way they never did in the past. But what defines a critic now? Almost anyone can write reviews and shape...

Oscar Primer Episode One - The Film Festivals

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2026 Oscars -- What are the Oscar Bumps Out of Cannes?

Jeff Wells recounts his trip to Cannes and the films he saw that he liked, and which ones will land in the Oscar race. It's a quick summary of Jeff's...

2026 Oscar Predictions: Sinners! Cannes 2025! Henry Johnson!

AwardsDaily's Sasha Stone and Hollywood-Elsewhere's Jeffrey Wells get together for a conversation about what's happening right now. What is Sinners ab...

2026 Oscar Predictions: One Battle After Another Plus Last Tango in Paris!

Sasha Stone and Jeff Wells take us back in time to discuss Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider's Last Tango in Paris, plus we discuss how the Oscar game...

2025 Movie Preview --What's Coming Up?

Sasha Stone is joined by Hollywood-Elsewhere's Jeff Wells to discuss all of the movies coming up this year.

The Oscars are Over! We Liked the Show! Yay Anora!

Sasha Stone is joined by Jeff Wells to discuss the Oscars which gave almost all of its top prizes to Anora. We also talk about the upcoming slate for...

2025 Oscar Predictions FINAL! With Mark Johnson

Sasha Stone and Mark Johnson lay down their final Oscar predictions for the 97th Academy Awards. Who will win, how they might win and why this is such...

2025 Oscar Predictions: SAG Predictions, ASC Predictions! Big Awards Weekend!

Sasha Stone is joined by Clarence Moye and Mark Johnson to discuss the SAG predictions, what might win, what could win, what should win. We close it o...

2025 Oscars: Predicting the BAFTAs!

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2025 Oscars - We Knew Anora Would WIn!!

Sasha Stone and Jeff Wells discuss what was a surprising win by Anora to take the Producers Guild and the Directors Guild in one night. Between that a...

2025 Oscars: Emilia Perez Takes a Fall

Sasha Stone is joined by Jeffrey Wells of Hollywood Elsewhere to talk about the Emilia Perez disaster and what this means for "woke" Hollywood now. Ar...

The Terrible Awful of Oscar Nominations Morning

Sasha Stone an Jeff Wells discuss the Oscar nominations and lament the Oscars pushing Emilia Perez on woke grounds. When does it all end?

How to Fix the Oscars

Sasha welcomes Hollywood-Elsewhere's Jeffrey Wells to discuss how to fix the Oscars and other movies this season like The last Showgirl, Anora and Con...

The Oscars in a Time of Wildfire - Catching Up with the Race

As Hollywood fights back flames, the nominations are being postponed right and left. It's a tragic situation but the show must go on. Sasha Stone is j...

Oscarwatch: What Narratives Drives a Winner?

Sasha Stone is joined by TheContending.com's Clarence Moye and Mark Johnson to discuss the wide open Best Picture race, along with the other major cat...

The Oscar Shift from The Telluride Film Festival

Sasha Stone and Mark Johnson talk all the happenings at the Telluride Film Festival, mainly how it has changed up our predictions. What if anything di...

The Notorious Sasha Stone Speaks and a Telluride Preview

After becoming the subject of Hollywood gossip, you can hear what Sasha Stone thinks in her own words. This is all about how a story in the Hollywood...