Red Carpet Rosters

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  • TIFF People’s Choice Winners Reactions

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    The always highly anticipated TIFF People’s Choice awards were announced on Sunday, and La bola negra took home the coveted prize. I thought it was certainly going to win the International People’s Choice Award, but it went all the way to winning the top prize. It was a near-lock to get an Oscar Best Picture…

  • Behind the Scenes at RCR and Buzz from Telluride and Venice

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    Welcome back to more regular blog posts from Red Carpet Rosters! I am thrilled to be back in the writing chair after taking a long hiatus. The site was getting way too demanding, so I spent this off-season doing a complete revamp of the site. EVERYTHING is now easier to do, and I’d like to…

  • Ultimate Red Carpet Rosters Overhaul: Why It Paid Off

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    It’s been a while since I’ve written one of these. For film awards fantasy fans, Red Carpet Rosters is live for the new season. It is, without exaggeration, the best version of this site that has ever existed. I’ve always believed Red Carpet Rosters was the most comprehensive film awards fantasy site on the internet.…

  • Oscars Betting and the New York Times

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    I had the great fortune of being featured in a New York Times article about my experience with Oscars betting! Next year, look to this site to see more suggestions on betting picks as I will release them much more periodically to go with the planned new features of the site! https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/09/business/oscars-betting.html

  • Oscar Wins Over/Under Contest for Red Carpet Rosters

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    The 96th Academy Awards are on Sunday, March 10, and if predicting the winners in each category sounds too daunting, here’s a little contest for you. https://forms.gle/XTwzuqYrdJWAeqrM8 The rules are simple. Each Oscar-nominated feature film has an “O/U” with a number by it. All you have to do is pick whether that film will get…

  • All-Fantasy Teams after Critics Choice Noms

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  • My Personal Ranking of ALL Oscar Nominated Films

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    I try to be objective, but I’m embracing my personal biases rather than trying to ignore them. The lists below are in order of preference, but I separate them in tiers. The last movie in each tier is closer in preference to the first movie in that same tier than it is the first movie…

  • Documentaries As Predictors of Best Picture Winners

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    Moonlight The first year we made it a personal mission to watch every single nominee was the first year I started betting on the Oscars: the year Moonlight won in 2017 (for the 2016 film year.) After watching all the nominees, it clicked for me that Moonlight would pull the upset over La La Land…

  • Final Oscar Predictions

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    I usually shy away from Oscar predictions because I’m usually pretty terrible at it, but then again, so is everyone else. No offense. The 4th and 5th nominees in each category are where it goes bad for everyone, so in that spirit, there are some left field predictions here. PICTURE DIRECTOR LEAD ACTOR LEAD ACTRESS…

  • ALL FANTASY TEAMS

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    With the regular season wrapping up today, which players were the MVP’s this season? First Team All Fantasy Position Player Pts PIC Everything Everywhere All at Once 209 ACTR Ke Huy Quan 132 ACTRS Michelle Yeoh 109 DIR/SCRN Daniel Kwan 183 ANI/INT/DOC RRR 126 EDIT/CIN Claudio Miranda 80 PD/CD/MUAH Catherine Martin 59 SCORE/SONG/SOUND/VFX Daniel Scheinert…