Most years, any film from the Coen brothers is considered a dead cert for awards.
Carol, considered a dead cert for the Oscars this awards season, netted six nominations, including those for best picture and director.
He's not filming for 12 weeks in Morocco, returning only as you disappear to research your next dead-cert Academy Award nomination part as a Polish cellist.
Lee Daniel's The Butler looks a cert to finish above $75m£48m8m) and may well carry on into awards season, by which time many voters will have seen it, most will have heard of it and some will believe it could go all the way to Oscar.
Not all his ideas are dead certs.
She started with a Certs cool mint drop.
Lifesavers, maybe, but for my money, Certs are breath mints.
My 10 dead certs are Jon McGregor, Zadie Smith, Ned Beauman, Ross Raisin, Joe Dunthorne, Sarah Hall, Adam Foulds, Samantha Harvey, Nick Laird, and Paul Murray.
He's already getting awards buzz for his work in front of and behind the camera, and – along with co-star Aja Naomi King, best known for How to Get Away with Murder – he's close to a cert for Oscar glory.
Certs, you will recall, is two mints in one.
