If you've followed the Blitz over the years, you know this is NOT my favorite category. I love music, and I love how music is used in film, whether it's a full-blown production number, a nice diegetic catalog track, or even occasionally a thematically appropriate coda during the credits. Also, as I've never been successfully … Continue reading Oscar Blitz 2026 – Original Song
Over the last several months, I learned more about interior design than I ever cared to know. Working in door-to-door sales, focusing on windows and entry doors, my job required me to knock on over 100 properties a day in an assigned neighborhood, and attempt to set up appointments for the actual salesmen. While it … Continue reading Oscar Blitz 2026 – Production Design
Hello, everybody! Ladies and gentlemen, children of all ages, welcome to the 2026 Oscar Blitz! We have five weeks chock full of analysis as we count down to the 98th Academy Awards, and it's a labor of love every year. However, I do have to open on something of a down note, and admit that … Continue reading Oscar Blitz 2026 – Best Director
It's been just over 48 hours since we got this year's crop of Oscar nominees, and with the actual Academy Awards ceremony not being until March 15, I have more lead time than I have in a long while. So naturally, I'm front-loading the fuck out of things and looking to do as much prep … Continue reading Oscar Blitz 2026 – The Hub
Well, everyone, the day has come at last. This morning, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences trotted out Danielle Brooks and Lewis Pullman to announce its nominees for the 98th Oscars. A new category made its official debut, and a longstanding record was broken, perhaps permanently. There's a lot to get to, so … Continue reading A Hefty Blitz Package – 98th Academy Award Nominations
It's the most wonderful time of the year. Oh, not Christmas, but the we're getting ever so close to the next Oscar Blitz! We're just over a month away from the reveal of the nominees, and today the Academy released their shortlists for half the categories in the field, 12 of the now 24! It's … Continue reading Santa’s Got Nothing on This – 98th Academy Awards Shortlists!
Well, it's finally over. We've made it through the 97th Academy Awards in one piece, and when it's all said and done, I... well... I think it was fine? I don't remember anything being too egregiously bad, but very little stuck out as exemplary, either. Like the pandemic ceremonies, it honestly felt perfunctory, and as … Continue reading Oscar Blitz 2025 – Postmortem
At long last, the time has come. After weeks of analysis, scrambling to clear backlogs, and a healthy amount of insomnia, tonight is the night for the 97th Academy Awards. The stars have come out to shine, and they're all wearing ridiculous outfits so they can talk to vacuous morning show hosts posing as "journalists" … Continue reading Oscar Blitz 2025 – Live Diary
Well, the hard part's over. Over the last five weeks, I was able to dive as deeply as possible into each of the 23 categories for this year's Academy Awards. Incidentally, this will be the last year where there are only 23 of them, as next year we'll be inaugurating the Best Casting contest. I … Continue reading Oscar Blitz 2025 – Who Will Win?
It's been a hell of a ride, folks. Between wildfires, delayed nominations, the myriad controversies surrounding the leading candidate, and the recent tragic passing of Gene Hackman that won't make the In Memoriam montage because there's not enough time to recut the whole thing, this has been one of the most tumultuous run-ups to the … Continue reading Oscar Blitz 2025 – Best Picture (VIDEO)
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