Oscar Flashback: The Gowns
USDish has commissioned an interesting infographic on the fashion trends worn on the red carpet. These are just dresses and not tuxes, so the guys get no love, but is three really much difference in male style on the carpet? Yes, but not enough to really care about. So, here's the excellent graphic highlighting some of the best looks and the statistics associated with them on the red carpet for the last two decades (1990-2011).
The graphic below has been resized, but if you want to see it in full size, click the graphic and it will take you to the image as hosted on USDish's website.
Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 10
As the precursor awards continue unabated through the month of December, I'm going to be providing a weekly update highlighting the films that have won and lost momentum through the precursor awards (this will be in place of my prior weekly article "Oscar Preview". Today, we look back at the results of the New York Film Critics Circle, National Board of Review, Satellite Awards nominations, Spirit Awards nominations and the Producers Guild of America nominations. This is a healthy spread of award bodies from indie to big budget, and a nice broad spectrum of critics groups.
But, before we get into this week's winners and losers, let's take a look at what's coming up this week:
Week 11
Feb. 7 - Visual Effects Society Awards
Feb. 11 - The Academy's Scientific and Technical Awards
Feb. 12 - British Academy Awards
Feb. 12 - American Society of Cinematographers
Feb. 12 - Grammy Awards
Big Winners
This Day in Oscar History: February 6
Here's what happened today in Oscar History.
Ceremonies
1938: 10th Annual Academy Awards
(Nominations Announcement) {for the films of 1937}
1942: 14th Annual Academy Awards
(Nominations Announcement) {for the films of 1941}
1944: 16th Annual Academy Awards
(Nominations Announcement) {for the films of 1943}
1985: 57th Annual Academy Awards
(Nominations Announcement) {for the films of 1984}
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Precursor: 16th OFTA Film Awards (2011)
Going out on a limb in a few categories (and ruining their record in Best Actor), the Online Film & Television Association has made several eclectic choices and quite a few that are likely to carry over to the Oscars. I don't have a lot to say since I run the organization, so here are the winners.
In addition to the nominees and/or winners listed below, this year, we're giving you a quick background on each individual precursor including founding year, first awards year and a glimpse at how many predictions the group has gotten right in the last five years. This data can be found below.
Award Tallies
This Day in Oscar History: February 5
Here's what happened today in Oscar History.
Ceremonies
1935: 7th Annual Academy Awards
(Nominations Announcement) {for the films of 1934}
1939: 11th Annual Academy Awards
(Nominations Announcement) {for the films of 1938}
1986: 58th Annual Academy Awards
(Nominations Announcement) {for the films of 1985}
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Precursor: 16th Art Directors Guild Awards (2011)
The Art Directors Guild awards have been announced and the expected winners took home prizes led by likely Oscar winner Hugo. In spite of it taking home a special achievement award, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 was also named Best Fantasy Art Direction, which was further notable considering this was the franchise's fifth nomination and only their first competitive win.
In addition to the nominees and/or winners listed below, this year, we're giving you a quick background on each individual precursor including founding year, first awards year and a glimpse at how many predictions the group has gotten right in the last five years. This data can be found below.
As promised, I have posted the history of this particular guild on my website. You can find it by following this link: Art Directors Guild.
The Awards
Precursor: 20th Annie Awards (2011)
The winners for the 20th Annual Annie Awards have been revealed in a live-streamed telecast that suffered lag issues towards the end, but was genuinely more funny than a lot of other awards shows out there. Rango took the prize for Best Animated Feature, which should give it a leg up for the Oscars. It also won three other prizes over Kung Fu Panda 2 and The Adventures of Tintin's two awards each. Although Rango took the top prize, Panda's Jennifer Yuh Nelson was named Best Director suggesting support for Rango wasn't nearly across the board...that or animators don't really like non-animators honing in on their craft (no Gore Verbinski, you're still a live action director to them).
In addition to the nominees and/or winners listed below, this year, we're giving you a quick background on each individual precursor including founding year, first awards year and a glimpse at how many predictions the group has gotten right in the last five years. This data can be found below.
Award Tallies
Oscar Week in Review: January 29 – February 4, 2012
Oscar News
- Michel Hazanavicius, the director of The Artist, took the top prize from the Directors Guild of America, the award most scene as the surest precursor to Oscar success. Project Nim was the documentary winner.
- The Help was the big winner at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, taking the prize for Best Cast, Best Actress (Viola Davis) and Best Supporting Actress (Octavia Spencer). Jean Dujardin won Best Actor for The Artist and Christopher Plummer won Best Supporting Actor for Beginners.
- The Sundance Film Festival concluded last weekend, with Beasts of the Southern Wild winning the Grand Jury Prize for Dramatic Film.
- The presenters for the Oscar ceremony have started to be announced, including previous Oscar Winners Halle Berry and Tom Hanks and Oscar Nominee Tom Cruise.
Review Round-Up
This Day in Oscar History: February 4
Here's what happened today in Oscar History.
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84th Presenters: Cameron Diaz
Cameron Diaz to Present at 84th Academy Awards® on Oscar® Sunday, February 26
Beverly Hills, CA (February 3, 2012) – Cameron Diaz will present at the 84th Academy Awards ceremony, telecast producers Brian Grazer and Don Mischer announced today.
Diaz will be seen next in "What to Expect When You're Expecting" and "Gambit." Her film credits include "Bad Teacher," "The Green Hornet," "Knight and Day," "My Sister's Keeper," "What Happens in Vegas," "The Holiday," "Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle," "Gangs of New York," "Any Given Sunday" and the four animated "Shrek" films.
Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2011 will be presented on Sunday, February 26, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center®, and televised live by the ABC Television Network. The Oscar® presentation also will be televised live in more than 225 countries worldwide.
Oscar in Box Office History (Week 5, 2012)
Every week, we'll take a look back 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30 years into the box office past to explore how Oscar's nominees were doing at the box office that weekend historically. All data is taken from Box Office Mojo. The first section under each year is the positioning of all Oscar nominees during that weekend at the box office. The second section is an alphabetical list of those films and the categories in which they were nominated. And to start each week off, we'll be looking at the films releasing over the weekend that have the best chance of getting Oscar nominations and specifying the categories where we think they have the best chance at this stage of the game. Please let us know if you like our new feature or if you want to see more information and we'll see what we can do!
This Year: Potential Oscar Nominees Releasing This Weekend
The Woman in Black (Wide)
Oscar Potential: Art Direction, Costume Design.
This Day in Oscar History: February 3
Here's what happened today in Oscar History.
Ceremonies
1945: 17th Annual Academy Awards
(Nominations Announcement) {for the films of 1944}
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84th Presenters: Halle Berry
Halle Berry to Present at 84th Academy Awards® on Oscar Sunday, February 26
Beverly Hills, CA (February 2, 2012) – Academy Award®-winning actress Halle Berry will present at the 84th Academy Awards ceremony, telecast producers Brian Grazer and Don Mischer announced today.
Berry won an Oscar® in 2001 for her lead performance in "Monster’s Ball." She was recently seen in "New Year’s Eve" and will be seen next opposite Tom Hanks and Hugh Grant in "Cloud Atlas." Berry’s other film credits include "Frankie & Alice," "Things We Lost in the Fire," "Die Another Day," "Swordfish," and the first three "X-Men" films.
Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2011 will be presented on Sunday, February 26, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center®, and televised live by the ABC Television Network. The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 225 countries worldwide.
Oscar Profile #71: Leo McCarey
Born October 3, 1896, (Thomas) Leo McCarey began in films as Assistant Director to horror legend Tod Browning in 1920, but soon found his niche as a comedy writer for Hal Roach’s Our Gang comedies. He later brought Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy together and guided their early joint career. By 1929 he was VP in charge of production for Hal Roach Studios.
He became a highly sought after director with the coming of sound and directed someof the biggest stars of the day, including Gloria Swanson, W. C. Fields and Harold Lloyd in some of their best reviewed films. One early highlight was the Marx Bros. classic, Duck Soup generally regarded as their best film.
In 1937 he directed two enduring masterpieces, Make Way for Tomorrow about the problems of old age in the pre-Social Security age, which he regarded as his finest film and the ultimate screenball comedy, The Awful Truth, which was the box-office smash Make Way for Tomorrow was not. When he won his Best Director Oscar for The Awful Truth he famously remarked “thanks, but you gave it to me for the wrong picture”.
He was nominated for Best Original Story for 1939’s bittersweet Love Affair and 1940’s return to screwball comedy, My Favorite Wife, but he relegated the direction of the latter to Garson Kanin.
In 1944 he wrote, produced and directed the classic comedy,Going My Way with Bing Crosby and Barry Fitzgerald as priests with different outlooks, which made him the first director whose film won all three Oscar categories in the same year, although he is not officially credited with having won for producing. But then, who needs another Oscar when your percentage of profits when the year’s most successful film made you the highest paid individual in the country that year?
This Day in Oscar History: February 2
Here's what happened today in Oscar History.
Ceremonies
1929: 1st Annual Academy Awards
(Nominations Announcement) {for the films of 1927/28}
2010: 82nd Annual Academy Awards
(Nominations Announcement) {for the films of 2009}
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