Probably the most expected result of the night, Roger Deakins wins yet another prize from ASC for his work on 1917. Although ASC doesn’t match the Oscars much, this should be one more time that it does. The Awards Best Cinematography 1917 (Wesley, Peter, Tripp, Thomas) Spotlight Award The Lighthouse (Wesley, Peter, Tripp, Thomas) Documentary…
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Like the Annies once treated DreamWorks, they now treat Netflix, adorning them with all but two prizes for the evening with Klaus a huge winner. This won’t likely have an impact on the Oscars. It would not be unheard of for studios to lavish fancy promotional materials on the various voters to earn their love.…
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Page Revisions: (January 19, 2020) Original Release Date: March 13, 2020 Synopsis: From IMDb: “The true-life story of Christian music star Jeremy Camp and his journey of love and loss that looks to prove there is always hope.” Poster Rating: C / C- SEE ALL POSTERS BELOW Review: (#1) Trying to get everything into the…
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For the next 24 days, we’re going to present to you polls for who and what you think the best of 2019 was based on the Oscar nominations. Every morning at 8am, we’ll post a new poll for each category. Just submit your vote for the best in that category and that’s it. We’ll have…
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released Oscar Nominations
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Although it was Russia’s entry to the Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film and was ultimately not nominated, Beanpole managed to go home with a single award for Best Actress with Odessa, Text, and T-34 splitting most of the other awards. Award Tallies (4) Odessa, Text (3) T-34 (2) The Conquest of Siberia The…
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Page Revisions: (January 19, 2020) Original Release Date: July 31, 2020 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Biochemist Michael Morbius tries to cure himself of a rare blood disease, but he inadvertently infects himself with a form of vampirism instead.” Poster Rating: – Review: There was no poster immediately available for my review. Should one become available in…
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Every week, we’ll take a look back in 5-year intervals at the box office past to explore how Oscar’s nominees were doing at the box office each weekend historically. The first section under each year is the positioning of all Oscar nominees during that weekend at the box office (as well as a section looking…
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Below are our ten face-offs for this week. Each category requires you to select a certain number of films to save. For more information on how the game works, click here.
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The American Society of Cinematographers may align with the Academy’s Best Cinematography Oscar, but they also have a relatively poor track record thanks to their Boys Club-ish mentality that has resulted in some cinematographers winning numerous times and then losing at the Oscars.
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This award may speak more to the eventual Oscar winner than anything as it’s one of the most accurate. That said, it could correspond with either Best Picture or Best Directing at the Oscars or both.
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The Annie Awards are the industry’s highest animation honors and their selections are typically good bellwethers for the Oscar race. That said, the top nominee of the year isn’t the Oscar frontrunner, so it might end up being one of those years where DreamWorks dominates and is ignored by the Academy.
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The guild most associated with the Sound Mixing category at the Oscars might have a bit of trouble replicating this year since it’s missing one of the Oscar contenders from their own list, 1917.
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While this group tends to avoid certain types of adaptations, it’s still one of the best prognosticators to the Adapted Screenplay Oscar there is.
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For our eighth Rundown article, we look at leading women. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Actress as well as general commentary about the race. Next week, we’ll start off on Monday with a category the category that can render people unrecognizable or perhaps recognizable as someone else.
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