Category: Academy Awards History
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This Day in Oscar History: February 28 (2021)
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2020 Precursor Predictions: Golden Globe Awards
The first televised awards show of the season kicks off amid controversy. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association is no stranger to charges of bias, especially in its past bribery controversies. However, this time, it’s not so easy. It was recently revealed that there are no HFPA members of color. That’s a rather staggering fact to…
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This Day in Oscar History: February 27 (2021)
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 9, 2021)
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: February 26 (2021)
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Precursor: 29th Southeastern Critics Awards (2020)
The Southeastern Film Critics Association hasn’t done much new with these selections. Award Tallies (5) Nomadland (3) Minari (2) The Trial of the Chicago 7 The Awards
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Precursor: 5th Hawaii Critics Awards (2020)
The most honored film wasn’t even Best Film-nominated and the two nominations leaders came up light on wins with The Trial of the Chicago 7 topping them all for the top award. Awards Tallies (4) Tenet (3) Mank, Sound of Metal, The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2) Da 5 Bloods, Nomadland, One Night in…
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Precursor: 5th Hawaii Critics Nominations (2020)
What’s most surprising is that Sound of Metal managed to tie Mank for most nominations while season leader Nomadland ended up with a scant 3. Beyond that, this group has matured a bit since it began, but the dearth of members doesn’t make them terribly representative. Nominations Tallies (9) Mank, Sound of Metal (8) News…
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Precursor: 4th Female Online Critics Nominations (2020)
Four films topped this year’s nominations with all of their top selections, except one, coming form underrepresented minority directors. Not a bad list. Nominations Tallies (6) Minari, Nomadland, One Night in Miami, Promising Young Woman (4) First Cow (3) Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Never Rarely Sometimes Always The Nominations
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Precursor: 25th Art Directors Guild Nominations (2020)
The Art Directors Guild has a large advantage in predicting the Oscar race. With twenty nominees (the five in animated really don’t have a chance), they have a pretty sterling track record. You usually have to take at least 3 of the period nominees and add in one or two of either the fantasy or…
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93rd Oscars: Feature Eligibility List
In spite of their being a pandemic, the number of films eligible for consideration for the 93rd Oscars was higher than two years ago by almost twenty and more than twenty higher than last year’s 344 eligible title. Granted, they had two extra months in there, but for those saying it was a less busy…
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Oscar Profile #537: Jodie Foster
Born November 19, 1962 in Los Angeles, California to Evelyn and Lucius Foster III, Alicia Christian (Jodie) Foster was the couple’s fourth child. Foster’s parents divorced before she was born, and she never established a relationship with her father who also had three children from an earlier marriage. Foster began her career in a TV…
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This Day in Oscar History: February 25 (2021)
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This Day in Oscar History: February 24 (2021)
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This Day in Oscar History: February 23 (2021)
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