Category: Academy Awards History
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This Day in Oscar History: March 1 (2022)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Precursor: 5th Hollywood Critics Awards (2021)
There isn’t a lot to see here. Had these been announced prior to the SAG awards as originally planned, they would have seemed oddball. The CODA choice will now be heralded as prophetic, but will it translate into an Oscar win? This group doesn’t have that level of prognosticative capability and with their slew of…
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94th Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 13
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). Online a few weeks to go. This past week, we had only a couple of precursors, but one…
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The Rundown 2021: International Feature
For our third Rundown article, the International Feature category gets our attention. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best International Feature as well as general commentary about the race. Tomorrow, we’ll cover one of the short film categories.
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94th Oscars: Upcoming Precursors – March
Precursors to the Academy Awards come in many different types and they can appear all year from festivals and national awards to critics groups and other organization. Each month, we’ll take a look at all of the upcoming events that could have some small impact on the Oscars so you can plan out what to…
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This Day in Oscar History: February 29 (2022)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released Oscar Ceremonies
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This Day in Oscar History: February 28 (2022)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released Oscar Ceremonies
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Precursor: 28th Screen Actors Guild Awards (2021)
It’s seldom that a cast this small wins the award and while it is a Best Picture nominee, no one expects it to win Best Picture, so this is probably the highlight of their season, though these could propel Troy Kotsur to an Oscar. Awards Tallies (2) CODA (1) The Eyes of Tammy Faye, King…
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This Day in Oscar History: February 27 (2022)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released Oscar Ceremonies Oscar Nominations
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Precursor: 53rd NAACP Image Awards (2021)
Presented over several nights, the results are finally in for all of the NAACP Image Awards categories as outlined below. It’s interesting to see how Judas and the Black Messiah struggled against the tide of being big early in the year while The Harder They Fall, unimpressive in its Oscar haul this year (nothing), outperformed…
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Precursor: 35th USC Scripter Awards (2021)
An upset to say the least. Since this awards isn’t given out by the film industry, it’s unlikely to have much impact on the Oscars, but it does make one wonder if The Power of the Dog is as strong a frontrunner as we’ve been thinking they are. The Awards Best Adapted Screenplay The Lost…
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This Day in Oscar History: February 26 (2022)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released Oscar Ceremonies Oscar Nominations
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 8, 2022)
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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2021 Precursor Predictions: USC Scripter Awards
The USC Libraries holds an event each year celebrating the best screenplay adapted from existing works. Seldom do they recognize anything but literary adaptations to the big screen, but sometimes, like with The Tragedy of Macbeth, they’ll nominate play adaptations. They also have a pretty solid track record for Oscar foreshadowing, certainly better than the…
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2021 Precursor Predictions: Screen Actors Guild
The carry over between SAG and Oscar is surprisingly minimal this year. Sure, Best Actor was identical, but the other categories saw two or three people each swapped out. Will that have an impact on Oscar voting? Quite possibly. It all depends on who wins.
