Film Preview: Soul Patrol (2026)
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2014 Precursor Predictions: Golden Globe Awards
The first major precursor telecast of the year is also the last major awards group to announce prior to the Oscar nominations (on Thursday morning). What will be most interesting about the Globes is how they shift the current narrative about the Oscars. While they often jump on bandwagons, they also strike out in different…
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This Day in Oscar History: January 11 (2015)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Precursor: 15th Vancouver Critics Awards (2014)
The nominees were announced on December 22, 2014 while the winners were chosen January 5, 2015. Winners are highlighted in bold. This group seemed to spread things out a little better, splitting Picture/Director in a way that it isn’t normally swapped while some of the other choices are either eclectic or mainstream without fail. The…
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Precursor: 4th Georgia Critics Awards (2014)
Another feather in the Boyhood cap as Jake Gyllenhaal picks up a rare award this season while everything else is fairly straight forward and narrative-fitting. Award Tallies (2) Boyhood, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Nightcrawler, Selma The Awards Best Picture Boyhood Best Animated Feature
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Precursor: 18th Toronto Critics – Canadian Film (2014)
Catching up on some precursors from the past week, The Toronto Film Critics Association announced their winner for Best Canadian Film, which went to Denis Villeneuve’s Enemy, beating out Michael Dowse’s The F Word and Canadian Foreign Language Film submission to the Oscars Xavier Dolan’s Mommy. The Awards Best Canadian Film Enemy Toronto Film Critics…
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This Day in Oscar History: January 10 (2015)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released Ceremonies
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Film Preview: Rage (2014)
Poster Poster #1 Additional posters can be found below. Trailer Link Release Date: July 11, 2014 Synopsis: From IMDb: “When the daughter of a reformed criminal is kidnapped, he rounds up his old crew and seeks his own brand of justice.” Poster: C- / C- / C Review: (#1-#3) Most action thrillers these days skimp…
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Academy to Unveil All 24 Categories at Live Press Conference
The Academy is doing something radically different this year: announcing all 24 categories, instead of a small number of them. Broken into two presentations starting at 5:30a PT (8:30a ET, 7:30a CT) for the first eleven, then the remaining thirteen live for the morning shows eight minutes later. Of the traditional categories announced live, only…
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 2, 2015)
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…
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The NEW Friday Face-Off #75
We started over at the beginning of August 2013, but with a new, more streamlined methodology to collecting votes. Just choose one selection in each of the ten categories below. Our first few weeks will be to select winners in cases of ties or in years where multiple categories existed for each discipline. After that,…
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Precursor: 56th British Academy Nominations (2014)
Before anyone panics, Selma and Cake (Jennifer Aniston) were likely not eligible as they did not release in Britain in time. That said, this list mostly follows conventional Oscar season narratives with the distinctions being Steve Carell got moved to supporting actor, British performers and productions still do disproportionately well (Paddington nominated for Best Adapted…
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This Day in Oscar History: January 9 (2015)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died
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Poll: Best Supporting Actress (1986 – 1990)
Return Links Polls Best Supporting Actress Poll: 1986 – 1990 Cinema Sight Asks: Which Best Supporting Actress winner is best? Public OpinionPoll Results
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Film Preview: War Story (2014)
Poster Trailer Link Release Date: July 30, 2014 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A war photographer who recently endured a brutal detainment in Libya holes up in Sicily to come to terms with her ordeal, not far from the home of her former lover and mentor. Soon she crosses paths with a Tunisian migrant in need of…
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Precursor: 6th Make-Up Artists Guild Nominations (2014)
Proof there’s a lot of below-the-line support for Guardians of the Galaxy, which might help it’s Oscar Best Picture chances, the Makeup artists have tied it with Into the Woods for most nominations at this year’s makeup and hairstyling awards. The organization had given out awards early in the 2000’s, but had taken a break…
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