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Category: Academy Awards History

  • This Day in Oscar History: January 25 (2020)

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

  • Precursor: 18th Golden Eagle Awards (2019)

    Although it was Russia’s entry to the Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film and was ultimately not nominated, Beanpole managed to go home with a single award for Best Actress with Odessa, Text, and T-34 splitting most of the other awards. Award Tallies (4) Odessa, Text (3) T-34 (2) The Conquest of Siberia The…

  • Oscar in Box Office History (Week 4, 2020)

    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…

  • 2019 Precursor Predictions: Am. Society of Cinematographers

    The American Society of Cinematographers may align with the Academy’s Best Cinematography Oscar, but they also have a relatively poor track record thanks to their Boys Club-ish mentality that has resulted in some cinematographers winning numerous times and then losing at the Oscars.

  • 2019 Precursor Predictions: Directors Guild of America

    This award may speak more to the eventual Oscar winner than anything as it’s one of the most accurate. That said, it could correspond with either Best Picture or Best Directing at the Oscars or both.

  • 2019 Precursor Predictions: Annie Awards

    The Annie Awards are the industry’s highest animation honors and their selections are typically good bellwethers for the Oscar race. That said, the top nominee of the year isn’t the Oscar frontrunner, so it might end up being one of those years where DreamWorks dominates and is ignored by the Academy.

  • 2019 Precursor Predictions: Cinema Audio Society

    The guild most associated with the Sound Mixing category at the Oscars might have a bit of trouble replicating this year since it’s missing one of the Oscar contenders from their own list, 1917.

  • 2019 Precursor Predictions: USC Scripter Awards

    While this group tends to avoid certain types of adaptations, it’s still one of the best prognosticators to the Adapted Screenplay Oscar there is.

  • The Rundown 2019: Actress

    For our eighth Rundown article, we look at leading women. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Actress as well as general commentary about the race. Next week, we’ll start off on Monday with a category the category that can render people unrecognizable or perhaps recognizable as someone else.

  • 92nd Oscars: The Polls – Best Original Screenplay

    For the next 24 days, we’re going to present to you polls for who and what you think the best of 2019 was based on the Oscar nominations. Every morning at 8am, we’ll post a new poll for each category. Just submit your vote for the best in that category and that’s it. We’ll have…

  • This Day in Oscar History: January 24 (2020)

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

  • 92nd Oscars: Performers Announced

    The Academy has announced this year’s performers. In addition to all of the original song performers (except it seems Taron Egerton), there are two other musical performances to come. 92ND OSCARS® PERFORMERS ANNOUNCED CYNTHIA ERIVO, ELTON JOHN, IDINA MENZEL, CHRISSY METZ AND RANDY NEWMAN TO PERFORM NOMINATED ORIGINAL SONGS WITH SPECIAL APPEARANCES BY EÍMEAR NOONE…

  • Oscar Profile #480: Antonio Banderas

    Born August 10, 1960 in Malaga, Spain, the son of a Civil Guard police officer and a schoolteacher, José Antonio Dominguez Bandera, known professionally as Antonio Banderas, wanted to be a professional football (soccer) player until a broken foot at 14 drove him in a different direction. The aspiring actor began his studies at the…

  • The Rundown 2019: Actor

    For our seventh Rundown article, we look at leading men. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Actor as well as general commentary about the race. Friday, we’ll cover the feminine counterpart

  • 92nd Oscars: The Polls – Best Costume Design

    For the next 24 days, we’re going to present to you polls for who and what you think the best of 2019 was based on the Oscar nominations. Every morning at 8am, we’ll post a new poll for each category. Just submit your vote for the best in that category and that’s it. We’ll have…

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