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Category: Academy Awards History

  • This Day in Oscar History: February 6 (2021)

    Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released Oscar Nominations

  • Oscar in Box Office History (Week 6, 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…

  • This Day in Oscar History: February 5 (2021)

    Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released Oscar Nominations

  • Precursor: 62nd British Academy Longlists (2020)

    While it was expected for highly technical films, films with lots of actors, and period films to pull out big numbers, Promising Young Woman stands out with thirteen mentions and only one of those is in Best British Film. That it figures in several categories it was never expected to contend in (Production Design for…

  • Precursor: 23rd Film Music Critics Nominations (2020)

    The bizarre year that has been 2020 might explain why the film music critics nominations are all over the place in terms of recognition, ignoring some of the year’s best regarded scores like Mank being utterly shut out while Soul gets a single nomination for score of an animated film and The Midnight Sky appears…

  • Oscar Profile #534: Potential First-Time Nominees

    When the Oscar nominations come out every year, there is a mix of repeat performers and first-time nominees. This year is particularly rich with first time contenders from Riz Ahmed to Helena Zengel. In fact, there are sixteen strong potential first time nominees among the twenty acting slots. Among the contenders for Best Actor are…

  • Precursor: 27th Screen Actors Guild Nominations (2020)

    With the 27th SAG Awards nominations announced, we can now start to see whatever patterns there might be and see what Oscar might have in store. All of the major Best Picture Oscar contenders appear to be here, including three films with three nominations apiece. Nomadland and Promising Young Woman may have gotten Best Actress…

  • This Day in Oscar History: February 4 (2021)

    Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Released

  • Precursor: 21st Vancouver Critics Canadian Nominations (2020)

    Before Vancouver announces their international selections, they’ve given us their best Canadian opinions on films made and released in Canada. Surprisingly, Chained picks up the most nominations while failing to earn a Best Canadian Film nomination. Second-place Possessor does, however, which might suggest that the film is setting itself up to rack up several wins,…

  • Precursor: 52nd NAACP Image Awards Nominations (2020)

    In spite of a year where Black protagonists were few and far between, the NAACP Image Awards put together a modestly impressive list of nominations. While films like Bad Boys for Life, Antebellum and The Banker weren’t terribly well received, films like Da 5 Bloods, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, One Night in Miami, and Soul…

  • Precursor: 78th Golden Globe Nominations (2020)

    Taraji P. Henson & Sarah Jessica Parker announced the nominees this morning in two batches. The first batch, carried live on national television, covered all of the lead acting category along with Best Director and Best Motion Picture Drama. The rest were announced several minutes later, all streamed. Promising Young Woman did tremendously well with…

  • This Day in Oscar History: February 3 (2021)

    Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released

  • Precursor: 4th Hollywood Critics Nominations (2020)

    The big surprise here is that Promising Young Woman came out on top of the nominations count. The film hasn’t been picking up nearly as many nominations elsewhere, which might be a good sign for the film. One Night in Miami and Birds of Prey also do surprisingly well with this group. Nominations Tallies (9)…

  • Precursor: 32nd PGA Documentary Nominations (2020)

    Surprisingly little attention was paid the the Producers Guild of America’s documentary nominations. Of course, they were supposed to be announced today, but were revealed yesterday. While awards leader Dick Johnson Is Dead made the list, as did popular winner Time, both All In: The Fight for Democracy and John Lewis: Good Trouble, thought to…

  • 93rd Oscars: Sci-Tech Awards Announced

    The usual ceremony, which used to be held shortly before the Oscars, was moved to earlier in the year a few years back. This year, because of the pandemic, they had to push it closer to this year’s awards, though not terribly close at two months prior. Once again, it looks like there will be…

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