All season long, “RuPaul’s Drag Race” fans will be making their predictions at Gold Derby for who they think will win Season 16, and who will be eliminated next. After the ousters of Hershii LiqCour-Jeté in Episode 3 and Mirage in Episode 4, the third boot is expected to take place in Episode 5, airing […]
One of the most exciting categories this year at the Grammys is Best Melodic Rap Performance, where there’s one glaring omission: Nicki Minaj and Ice Spice’s “Barbie World.” The big hit from “Barbie” was relegated to Best Rap Song, showing a lack of enthusiasm from voters (who likely voted for it in the songwriting category […]
It didn’t take long for Vincent René-Lortie earn his first Oscar nomination. The Canadian writer and director’s first narrative film, “Invincible,” is nominated for Best Live Action Short at the 96th Academy Awards. A video posted on YouTube shows René-Lortie and his team reacting to the nominations announcement. In an exclusive video interview with Gold Derby […]
Anyone who didn’t perfectly predict this year’s Oscar nominees for Best Costume Design and Best Production Design has a uniquely valid excuse. This applies to all but a tiny fraction of Gold Derby’s nearly 11,000 prognosticators, whose solid consensus ultimately conflicted with the academy’s highly unusual decision to populate both categories with the same five […]
Welcome to Oscar Experts Typing, a weekly column in which Gold Derby editors and Experts Joyce Eng and Christopher Rosen discuss the Oscar race — via Slack, of course. This week, we discuss Best Actress, which feels competitive between the top three. Christopher Rosen: Hello, Joyce! We spent last week’s column trying to find a realistic alternative […]
While we try to guess what the Grammys will do this weekend, there’s one way to get a sneak peek: anonymous ballots. Industry professionals were gracious enough to spill some tea on their choices during the voting process. Granted, a few voters are not a representative sample of the whole 13,000+ Recording Academy membership, but […]
It was a clean sweep for Taylor Swift at the 2024 Gold Derby Music Awards. She came into our fourth annual event with nine nominations and walked away with nine victories including Artist of the Year for the fourth year in a row. Watch the announcement video above for winners in all categories, and scroll […]
Thousands of Gold Derby users have placed their bets for this weekend’s Grammy Awards here in our predictions center, but based on their combined forecasts we’re not expecting any artist to sweep. Instead, we think the awards will be pretty evenly split. Scroll down for our predictions in 37 categories, listed by artist. Taylor Swift […]
By racking up three Best Actress Oscar notices between the ages of 26 and 32, previous teenage supporting nominee Jodie Foster (“Taxi Driver,” 1977) proved it possible to earn academy recognition more than twice during adulthood after initially charming them as a child. Now, nearly three decades later, she has improved upon that distinction by […]
As surely as the sun rises in the east, Hollywood will produce musical biopics. There’s something about that particular kind of fame that works on film, especially if the subject died tragically. (Recent Best Actor Oscar winner Rami Malek, who took home the gold for “Bohemian Rhapsody,” can speak more about this.) Focus Features has […]
