Category: Academy Awards History
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94th Oscars: Upcoming Precursors – February
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: January 31 (2022)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released Oscar Nominations
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This Day in Oscar History: January 30 (2022)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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This Day in Oscar History: January 29 (2022)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Precursor: 15th Women Journalists Awards (2021)
Not much to say about these since they went largely as most of the season has gone. Nominations Tallies (11) The Power of the Dog (2) Encanto The Awards
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 4, 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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This Day in Oscar History: January 28 (2022)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died
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Precursor: 74th Directors Guild Nominations (2021)
While the Best Director slate isn’t as diverse as it has been in the past, we have four nominees we expected to see there with Paul Thomas Anderson rounding out the list. This is exactly my current five predictions for that category, so I wouldn’t be surprised to see it copied by the Academy. The…
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Precursor: 33rd Producers Guild Nominations (2021)
This was the penultimate guild announcement today, with the Directors Guild of America still pending, but this is a hugely important one for any film wanting a Best Picture nomination at the Oscars. Usually, one blockbuster makes this list, but I don’t see Spider-Man: No Way Home, which many thought would be this year’s biggest…
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Precursor: 61st American Cinema Editors Nominations (2021)
A film rarely wins the Oscar without a Best Film Editing nomination. The ACE is a prime predictor of the Oscar category of Film Editing, so missing here is a bad sign. First, the ugly: West Side Story and Cyrano, although musicals, were eligible in the overpacked Drama category. That doesn’t help either film, but…
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Precursor: 74th Writers Guild Nominations (2021)
Before we dig into the good, the bad, and the ugly, we must remember that WGA has very strict rules that no other guild has, regarding eligibility. Only guild members writing scripts under guild contracts are eligible for nomination. This means that some prominent contenders we explicably absent: Belfast, A Hero, Mass, Parallel Mothers, and…
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Oscar Profile #584: Lucille Ball
Born August 6, 1911 in Jamestown, New York to a telephone lineman and his wife, Lucille Ball’s father died of scarlet fever at the age of 27 when she was 3. With her mother working several jobs to make ends meet, she and her brother Fred (1915-2007) were raised by their paternal grandparents until her…
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This Day in Oscar History: January 27 (2022)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released Oscar Nominations
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Precursor: 24th Costume Designers Guild Nominations (2021)
This is the first good news Cyrano has received in some time. Yet, it’s not such good news for Belfast, Spencer, or Licorice Pizza. Other Oscar contenders that were shut out include Cinderella, The French Dispatch, The Last Duel, Last Night in Soho, Passing, and The Tragedy of Macbeth. The Nominations Best Period Costume Design…
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Precursor: 74th Directors Guild Doc Nominations (2021)
Exterminate All the Brutes is the only title listed here that hasn’t been considered as a contender for the Oscar nomination for Best Documentary Feature. The Nominations Best Documentary Director Jessica Kingdon – Ascension Stanley Nelson – Attica Raoul Peck – Exterminate All the Brutes Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson – Summer of Soul (…Or, When the…
