Movies

Oscar Update

With Oscar ballots due next Tuesday, the Best Picture race remains incredibly murky. There’s absolutely no consensus. Here’s my latest set of predictions in all categories at Movie City News, alongside the prognostications from all of the other Gurus of Gold. I’ll have final set in The Post next week, just in time for the Oscar pool.

MCN proprietor David Poland, meanwhile, was inspired by my little squib the other day about the Volkswagen won by “Hounddog” director Deborah Kampmeier at Sundance to do a little digging on just how the helmer of the “Dakota Fanning rape movie” landed that award.