Category: Academy Awards History
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95th Oscars: The Polls – Best Sound
For the next 23 days, we’re going to present to you polls for who and what you think the best of 2022 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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This Day in Oscar History: February 15 (2023)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released Oscar Nominations Our Site Milestones 1996: The Oscar Guy Launched on GeoCities (27)
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2022 Precursor Predictions: Visual Effects Society
They should probably rename these awards to the Avatar Takes Everything Awards. The VES is the first place we’ll see a surprise before the Oscar envelope opens, so we watch for that reason. VISUAL EFFECTS SOCIETY AWARDS Best Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature Avatar: The Way of Water (Wesley, Peter, Thomas) The Batman Fantastic…
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This Day in Oscar History: February 14 (2023)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released Oscar Nominations
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95th Oscars Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 11
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). There were only three precursors this past week, the Make-Up Artists & Hair Stylists Guild, the Online Film…
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This Day in Oscar History: February 13 (2023)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released Oscar Nominations
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Precursor: 14th Make-Up Artists Guild Awards (2022)
The awards went about as expected considering each of us predicted at least one prize right and most of us predicted four out of five. Not much to say about this result as it plays into the conventional narrative for this year’s Oscars. Awards Tallies (2) Elvis The Awards
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Precursor: 27th Online Film & Television Nominations (2022)
With four acting nominations and a slew of craft citations, Everything Everywhere All at Once was the dominant film at this year’s awards. Keep an eye out for third-place The Banshees of Inisherin. Last year’s third-place nomination finisher, The Power of the Dog, went on to win Best Picture. Nominations Tallies (20) Everything Everywhere All…
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This Day in Oscar History: February 12 (2023)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released Oscar Nominations
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This Day in Oscar History: February 11 (2023)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Our Site Milestones Born Died Released Oscar Nominations
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 6, 2023)
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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2022 Precursor Predictions: Make-Up Artists & Hair Stylists Guild
The leading guild for makeup artists and hairstylists is a poor indication of the Oscar competition, but interesting to look at nonetheless.
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This Day in Oscar History: February 10 (2023)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released Oscar Nominations
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Precursor: 25th Film Music Critics Nominations (2022)
While the Film Music Critics were most enamored with TV miniseries The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, a handful of films got some attention as well. Nominations Tallies (5) The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (3) Avatar: The Way of Water, The Batman, The Fabelmans (2) Nope The Nominations
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Oscar Profile #635: Peter Weir
Born August 21, 1944 in Sydney, Australia, the son of Peggy and Lindsey Weir, a real estate agent, Peter Weir studied arts and law at the University of Sydney where his interest in film was sparked by his involvement with fellow students including Philip Noyce and other future filmmakers. Weir first worked in Australian TV…
