It's a busy weekend for guild awards looking to have their say before Oscar polls close on Tuesday.
The American Cinema Editors would be a more important announcement if it weren't for their separation of the nominees into Drama and Comedy categories.
The Artist is obviously going to win in the Comedy category, while Drama is probably going the way of
Hugo (although I could see it going to
Dragon Tattoo as well). As for the Oscar, it'll be down to
The Artist and whatever film does win for Drama, as the Oscar winner for Editing has won the ACE Eddie for the last ten years in a row.
The Cinema Audio Society only nominated two films that went on to receive Sound Mixing nods from the Academy;
Hugo and
Moneyball. I'm anticipating
Hugo will take it from the Society, but am still sticking with
War Horse to impress the Academy.
The Writers Guild of America is probably going to award
Midnight in Paris for Original Screenplay and
Moneyball for Adapted, a pair of winners I wouldn't be surprised to see repeat at the Oscars, though I am expecting
The Descendants to come out on top with the Academy.
Finally, the Motion Picture Sound Editors have a few categories in which to acknowledge the year's best sound editing. The important category in terms of Oscar is Best Sound Effects and Foley, where I'm guessing it'll be
War Horse. Interesting to note: for four of the last five years, the winner of that category with the MPSE as gone on to win the Oscar for Sound Editing, and since the two Sound categories so often go to the same film, this guild is possibly a more accurate bellwether of Best Sound Mixing than the CAS.
