Category: Academy Awards History
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This Day in Oscar History: February 2 (2021)
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Precursor: 5th Atlanta Critics Awards (2020)
Atlanta went for Nomadland and Promising Young Woman in a big way, giving them six of their fifteen awards. Awards Tallies (3) Nomadland, Promising Young Woman (2) Soul, Sound of Metal The Awards
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Precursor: 25th Satellite Awards Nominations (2020)
After a year filled with heavily-praised films directed by women, the Satellite Awards have managed to scrape together a list of four white male directors, one woman director, and one Korean-American director. No Black men or women. For a year that should have delivered a more diverse slate, this is a rather antiquated one. This…
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93rd 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: February 1 (2021)
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This Day in Oscar History: January 31 (2021)
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This Day in Oscar History: January 30 (2021)
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 5, 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: January 29 (2021)
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93rd Oscars: Special Awards
Normally, the Academy announces honorary Oscars alongside its special awards, such as this Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. Yet, that didn’t happen this year. While we don’t have any confirmation that I’ve seen so far, I suspect it has to do with the pandemic and any of the honorees would likely be septuagenarians, octogenarians, or nonagenarians.…
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93rd Oscars: Eligibility Lists Announced
You can tell it’s getting closer to Oscar time because the eligibility lists are coming out. In one fell swoop, the Academy has revealed the films eligible for Animated Feature, International Feature, and Documentary Feature. Let’s take the lists one at a time. First, Animated Feature. It’s the category I often feel the most educated…
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Oscar Profile #533: Michelle Pfeiffer Revisited
Born April 28, 1958 in Santa Ana, California to Donna and Richard Pfeiffer, a heating and air-conditioning contractor, Michelle Pfeiffer has an older brother, Rick, and two younger sisters, Deedee and Lori, both of whom have acted. She made her acting debut in 1978 as the bombshell in the TV series, Delta House. In minor…
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This Day in Oscar History: January 28 (2021)
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This Day in Oscar History: January 27 (2021)
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Precursor: 12th North Texas Critics Awards (2020)
While Nomadland took the top prize and two other awards, Minari also did well taking two acting awards and the foreign language film prize, still incorrectly listed as being from Korea. It’s in Korean, but was produced in the U.S. Awards Tallies (3) Minari, Nomadland The Awards
