Tom O'Neil's bio
Tom O'Neil is the author
of "Movie Awards," "The Emmys" and "The Grammys" (Penguin
Putnam Books) and has reported on showbiz awards for the L.A. Times, New York
Times, Washington Post, Variety, TV Guide, Reader's Digest and other major
media. In 1999, he launched GoldDerby.com, the first website devoted to
predicting all top showbiz awards. It was acquired by the Los Angeles Times in
November 2005 and folded into the launch of TheEnvelope.com.
O'Neil's special interest is how the awards affect each other, particularly the
top film prizes that can be viewed as one single gold derby with the Oscars as
the finish line. Consider what happened to "Chariots of Fire," for
example. In 1981, it emerged from obscurity to win awards at the Cannes Film
Festival and the National Board of Review, then fell behind "Reds" and
"Atlantic City" at the film critics' awards and Golden Globes, then
trotted ahead as best-picture champ at the Oscars. Contact O'Neil: GoldDerby@gmail.com.
Unfortunately & despite the *AMPAS' attempt to spice things up with the ten BP contenders, it looks like it may be a very predicatble year
"H. Locker"-(likely sweeping the majors & "Avatar" taking home a few tech ones)
Jeff Bridges-(& again to Tom you were on this picture before anyone)
Bullock-(due to it's off the wall BP nod.)
Waltz-(for my $ the performance of the year)
Mo'Nique
& Bigalow
& again, please help soon as you get a second
THANK YOU
Posted by: Jeff L. | February 14, 2010 at 01:34 PM
Hey Tom - Another interesting tidbit: With Maggie’s nomination, she joins her brother with the “sibling” nomination for acting. Got me to thinking about the others: the Redgraves, the Barrymoores, the Fondas, Beatty/Maclaine, the Robertses, the Tillys, DeHavilland/Fontaine…Are there others?
Posted by: Matt | February 02, 2010 at 10:58 AM
As entertaining as Oscar handicapping is, please ask your "experts" if there is "a great film" this year worthy of being considered Best and that we'll remember and still respect the choice years from now.
Posted by: swf | December 07, 2009 at 09:13 AM