After sixteen years, the Utah film critics are still a bit baffling. Apart from a handful of Oscar contenders, they went far left field with the choices of Ghost Story for Best Picture, Andy Serkis in Best Actor, and Tatiana Maslany in Best Supporting Actress. Award Tallies (2) Blade Runner 2049, The Shape of Water…
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Seventy songs are on track for potential nomination in this year’s song eligibility list. As usual, it’s difficult to say just what will impress voters the most to get the nomination. 70 ORIGINAL SONGS VIE FOR 2017 OSCAR® LOS ANGELES, CA – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that 70 songs…
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Not a shortlist as every eligible score is listed, but here we have 141 scores in competition. The list is included in the post below. The truly shocking one here is he eligibility of Beauty and the Beast, an almost derivative score with some original elements. In any other year, it would have been ruled…
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Return Links Polls Now That You’ve Seen Star Wars: The Last Jedi…?
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New Trailer (#2) Ready Player One, updated Preview Link: CLICK HERE for all of the new content as well as the original.
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The Visual Effects Branch of the Academy has narrowed their longlist down to ten contenders. The five Oscar nominees will come from this list. This is a solid list with only Okja something of a surprise. Of note is what didn’t make this final list that was on the longlist. Justice League, Logan, Thor: Ragnarok,…
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We had one film release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Star Wars: The Last Jedi One of the biggest franchise in history is also one of the biggest at the Oscars. Nine films have been released since 1977 and every single one of them has been an Oscar nominee. While Episodes…
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Welcome to The Morning After, where I share with you what movies I’ve seen over the past week. Below, you will find short reviews of those movies along with a star rating. Full length reviews may come at a later date. So, here is what I watched this past week: I, Tonya The biopic has…
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Justice League Rating Director Zack Snyder Screenplay Chris Terrio, Joss Whedon, Zack Snyder Length 2h Starring Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Gal Gadot, Ezra Miller, Jason Momoa, Ray Fisher, Jeremy Irons, Amy Adams, Diane Lane, Connie Nielsen, J.K. Simmons, Ciaran Hinds, Joe Morton, Amber Heard MPAA Rating PG-13 for sequences of sci-fi violence and action Original…
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As the precursor awards continue unabated until Oscar night, I’m going to be providing a weekly update highlighting the films that have won and lost momentum through the precursor awards (and in some cases other outside influences). It has been an uber-hectic week. Plenty of content this week and most of it is hard to…
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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The Online Film Critics Society made changes to its rules and categories this year making things a bit more unusual. There are some very odd choices on this list that don’t fit into the current Oscar narrative, so they may not be that indicative this year. Award Tallies (8) The Shape of Water (6) Call…
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The St. Louis film critics went for The Shape of Water in a huge way, presenting it with a solid 5 awards. Award Tallies (5) The Shape of Water (2) Baby Driver, Blade Runner 2049 The Awards
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Another win for Get Out with lots of equal love for Call Me by Your Name. Award Tallies (3) Call Me by Your Name, Get Out (2) The Shape of Water The Awards
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Return Links Polls What Are You Most Anticipating? (Jan. 2018, Wide)
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