Category: Academy Awards History
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92nd Oscars: The Polls – Best International Film
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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Precursor: 24th Online Film & Television Nominations (2019)
The OFTA released a set of nominees that looks like a lot of other lists. It also looks like a list that corrected some notable errors that the Academy made in their nominations last week. Award Tallies (14) Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, Parasite (12) 1917 (11) Little Women (9) The Irishman (8) Jojo…
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This Day in Oscar History: January 19 (2020)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Precursor: 31st Producers Guild Awards (2019)
With the first of the big three awards going to 1917, the film solidifies its frontrunner status. Although it cannot win the Screen Actors Guild Award because it isn’t nominated, it has the best shot of winning Best Picture of any film this year. The Awards Best Picture 1917 (Wesley, Peter, Tripp, Thomas) Best Animated…
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92nd Oscars: The Polls – Best Sound Editing
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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This Day in Oscar History: January 18 (2020)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Precursor: 59th American Cinema Editors Awards (2019)
Suggesting that a foreign language film could actually be popular enough to win Best Picture, the American Cinema Editors picked Parasite as the best edited drama with Jojo Rabbit its comedy counterpart. The Awards Best Drama Editing Parasite (RU:Wesley, RU:Peter) Best Comedy/Musical Editing Jojo Rabbit (Tripp, Thomas, RU:Wesley) Best Animation Editing Toy Story 4 (Peter,…
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 3, 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…
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2019 Precursor Predictions: Screen Actors Guild
The last of the Hollywood televised awards is this weekend and everyone will be watching for what the Screen Actors Guild does. Will they cement the frontrunners or will they throw in a wrench. This is the place to test out theories ahead of the Oscars with the last televised film-only awards, BAFTA, the last…
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2019 Precursor Predictions: Producers Guild of America
Since the creation of the SAG awards in 1995, there is a trend where if a film wins at SAG, PGA, and DGA, the chance of winning the Oscar skyrockets. In those fifteen years where they didn’t align, seven of those years saw the PGA winner also take the Oscar for Best Picture. So, this…
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2019 Precursor Predictions: Motion Picture Sound Editors
The Motion Picture Sound Editors are a chaotic group. With so many categories, it’s possible that the Oscar winner is already here and the winners of this group’s award will point that out to us. The Sound Editing category at the Oscars is most closely associated with this organization; however, Academy members are more likely…
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The Rundown 2019: International Film
For our third Rundown article, we look at once-labeled foreign language films. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best International Film as well as general commentary about the race. Next week, we’ll start off on Monday with a category the documentary categories.
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92nd Oscars: The Polls – Best Sound Mixing
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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This Day in Oscar History: January 17 (2020)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Precursor: 11th Denver Film Critics Awards (2019)
Not only do I have no idea when these were announced, I have no idea who the winners were in two categories. These come courtesy of the IMDB page for this awards body. Neither the group’s Twitter nor Facebook page have been updated since July. I’m posting today, though who knows for sure when they…
