• Friday Face-Off #37

    Time for another week of the Friday Face-Off. It’s a simple affair in which you are given a choice between two Oscar winners in specific categories. You choose which of the two is best. When the game concludes, we’ll have the ultimate winner in each category. For example: If you were to choose between Oscar…

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  • Oscar in Box Office History (Week 36, 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…

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  • This Day in Oscar History: September 7 (2012)

    Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.

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  • Poll: Best Actor (1932/33 – 1937)

    Return Links Best Actor Poll Archive Best Actor Poll: 1932/33 – 1937 Cinema Sight Asks: Which Best Actor winner is best? Public OpinionPoll Results

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  • Trailer Watch: Taken 2

    He just killed everyone he could when his daughter was taken? Do you really think you’re a match for him? Taken 2 Plot Summary: He killed the man who kidnapped his daughter. Now, that man’s brother is coming for revenge. Release Date: October 5, 2012 Poster Trailer Rating: D Commentary: I guess if Liam Neeson…

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  • Feed the Queue #100

    Here are the results of last week’s poll. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) Klute (1971) Rachel, Rachel (1968) Wait Until Dark (1967) Ryan’s Daughter (1970) The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie wins and goes into my queue.

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  • Oscar Profile #102: May Robson – Earliest Born Acting Nominee

    Born April 19, 1858 in Melbourne, Australia, the fourth child of a British Naval Captain and his wife, Mary Jeanette Robison would move to her parents’ native England after the death of her father, and would be educated in London, Paris and Brussels. After emigrating to the U.S. as a young woman, she married a…

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  • Academy Announces Honorary Oscar Selections

    The Academy’s methodology of selecting honorary awards is a bit archaic. It’s prone to compromise choices and not bold, visionary ones. The honorees are all outstanding, but I’m once again disappointed that some real screen legends are absent from the list. Anyway, here they are: BEVERLY HILLS, CA –The Board of Governors of the Academy…

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  • This Day in Oscar History: September 6 (2012)

    Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.

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  • Poll: What Are You Watching? (Sep. 7-9, 2012)

    Return Links What Are You Watching? Poll Archive What Are You Watching? (Sep. 7-9, 2012) Cinema Sight Asks: What are you watching? (Sep. 7-9, 2012) Public OpinionPoll Results

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  • Trailer Watch: Playing for Keeps

    But what do you really get to keep? Playing for Keeps Plot Summary: An ex soccer star struggles to be a better dad for his son while juggling the chance to become a professional sportscaster. Release Date: December 7, 2012 Poster Trailer Rating: C- Commentary: I’m running out of ways to call posters “generic” and…

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  • Game: 2012 Oscar Box Office Week 1

    It’s time for a new Box Office Game. Because of the extensive and complex spreadsheet I have tracking this, I haven’t changed the rules much at all. Although we won’t be tracking limited release films this year, they will be included in our weekly list for reference on Oscar predictions. Additionally, the Prediction Increments chart…

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  • Game: 2012 Oscar Box Office Predictions: Rules

    In our third annual Oscar Season Box Office Prediction Contest, we leave much of the prior year’s rules the same, except the weekly call for entries will now include all limited release features for predictions in Division 5 This contest begins the weekend of Sept 7-9, 2012 and continues through the weekend of December 28-30,…

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  • Game: 2012 Summer Box Office Week 18 Results

    Our 2012 Summer Box Office game is now complete for Divisions 1, 2 & 3. Divisions 4 & 5 will be tabulated at a later date. Last Week’s Results In a typical Labor Day holiday weekend, the box office was fairly anemic with supernatural horror flick The Possession taking a commanding lead over the weekend…

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  • Looking at the Weekend: Sep. 7-9, 2012

    A long-delayed thriller versus a film starring two hot, up-and-coming actors (Bradley Cooper and Zoe Saldana), I think it’s fairly obvious which will top the weekend. Consensus Below is a list of what we have come to a general consensus on. The number in parens represents the percentage of our contributors who agree with the…

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