I am a twin (fun fact about me!). When we were in late elementary/early middle school, my brother and I became obsessed with stats. We watched SportsCenter on ESPN every morning. And not just one time to check the scores…we watched three or four times, to memorize them.

At some point in a journey that my therapist and I are still parsing out decades later, the obsession with stats changed. I stopped caring about Mark McGwire vs. Sammy Sosa. I only cared to know who was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the Oscars throughout my lifetime. (There’s no official Gay Card, but that obsession is basically it.)

In any case, monitoring the awards season became more than a hobby; it’s now part of my profession. Sorry to my twin brother whose encyclopedic knowledge of the RBIs from the roster of the 1999 New York Mets is not that applicable to his (much higher paying) job.

So having covered and observed and obsessed over this entire awards season, I decided to do something different this year.

I have a hunch as to which performers and films are going to get nominated for the........

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