Category: Academy Awards History
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This Day in Oscar History: February 22 (2021)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released Oscar Ceremonies Oscar Nominations
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This Day in Oscar History: February 21 (2021)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released Oscar Nominations
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Precursor: 21st Vancouver Critics Nominations (2020)
Vancouver liked Mank best, but all of its Best Picture nominees did well in the nominations. Nominations Tallies (5) Mank (3) Nomadland, Promising Young Woman The Nominations
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Precursor: 18th Iowa Critics Awards (2020)
A heavily pro-Nomadland list. Not much else to see here. Awards Tallies (4) Nomadland The Awards
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This Day in Oscar History: February 20 (2021)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released Oscar Nominations
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Precursor: 10th Nevada Critics Awards (2020)
Nevada definitely loved Promising Young Woman, which seems to be a rarer and rarer opinion so far this season. Award Tallies (4) Promising Young Woman (2) The Father, Tenet The Awards
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Precursor: 37th Casting Society Nominations (2020)
A generally interesting list of nominees with Palm Springs and Mank notably absent. The Nominations
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 8, 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 19 (2021)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released Oscar Nominations
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Precursor: 23rd Film Music Critics Awards (2020)
If you’re looking for accurate predictors of the Oscars, look elsewhere. The Film Music Critics, which used to announce after the Oscars, are now announcing in the midst of the lead-up to them. That said, the selections here were far outside the norms we’ve been seeing. They even chose Wolfwalkers over Soul if that tells…
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Precursor: 12th Make-Up Artists Guild Nominations (2020)
The strange case of Bill & Ted Face the Music is rather puzzling. How can it compete in both Period and Contemporary categories. This sounds like an issue with eligibility. Either way, it doesn’t matter as the film was not shortlisted by the Academy. Of the films that were, Emma., The Glorias, The Little Things,…
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Oscar Profile #536: Sal Mineo
Born January 10, 1939 in Bronx, New York to Josephine and Salvatore Mineo, a casket maker from Sicily, Salvatore (Sal) Mineo, Jr. was one of four children. A troubled child, he was thrown out of parochial school, and by the age of eight, had joined a tough Bronx gang. His mother enrolled him in dancing…
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This Day in Oscar History: February 18 (2021)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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2020 Oscar Nominations Predictions: Post-Critics
With the vast majority of critics having now spoken, it’s time to look forward to the guild nominations. We’ve already seen what the Screen Actors Guild has to offer and we’ll get quite a few more in the next few weeks. This is likely our penultimate predictions prior to the Oscar nominations being announced in…
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This Day in Oscar History: February 17 (2021)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released Oscar Nominations
