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Category: Academy Awards History

  • Oscar Profile #479: Jonathan Pryce

    Born June 1, 1947 in Carmel, Wales, John Price was the third child and only son of a former coal miner who ran a small general grocery shop with his wife. His primary education was in Wales, but the brilliant student entered college in Lancashire, England at the age of 16. While studying to become…

  • 2019 Precursor Predictions: American Cinema Editors

    The chaotic nature of this year’s Oscar season has led to a rare divergence among our contributors where none of this year’s American Cinema Editors nominees get universal predictions. Most often reflected in the Academy’s Best Film Editing Oscar, this winner could help us narrow down the players for the Oscars.

  • The Rundown 2019: Original Song

    For our second Rundown article, we look at the other musical category. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Original Song as well as general commentary about the race. Friday, we’ll cover the international film category.

  • 92nd Oscars: The Polls – Best Original Score

    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 16 (2020)

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

  • The Rundown 2019: Original Score

    For our first Rundown article, we look at one of two musical categories. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Original Score as well as general commentary about the race. Thursday, we’ll cover the other musical category: Best Original Song.

  • 92nd Oscars: The Polls – Best Original Song

    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 15 (2020)

    Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Our Site Milestones Born Died Released Oscar Nominations Our Site Milestones 2012: Polls: Best Of… (8)

  • 2019 Oscar Winner Predictions: First, Post-Nomination

    With all of the shocks and surprises of the Academy Awards nominations, our contributors have put together these first post-nomination predictions. We’ll do individual posts this week discussing our individual predictions and we’ll have a final set of predictions the Friday before the Oscars. Some of our contributors even provided commentary. I present that here…

  • This Day in Oscar History: January 14 (2020)

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

  • Precursor: 4th Hawaii Critics Awards (2019)

    Unlike last year’s embarrassment of having every other winner a tie because there were only 4 members, that issue has been resolved with their expansion to 7 members. That said, they may have done something else to prevent ties because that’s still too few to avoid it. Other than that, this slate looks like it…

  • 2019 Oscar Nominations Predictions: Our Statistics

    Based on our predictions, here’s how we did (I changed two of mine in the days after this post was made, but I didn’t afford the others said opportunity, so I’m leaving them as previously predicted). Once again, it was an incredibly close competition. 1 correct prediction separated first and a tie for second with…

  • Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 8

    As the precursor awards continue unabated until Oscar night, I’m going to be providing a weekly update highlighting the films that have won and lost momentum through the precursor awards (and in some cases other outside influences). While there were a handful of precursors in the last week, including the important Directors Guild of America…

  • 92nd Oscar Nominations

    There were a lot of omissions and handful of unexpected results. Nine nominees in Best Picture and all but one of them received more than 5 nominations. Joker did exceptionally well, earning nominations in categories that weren’t exactly expected (see Costume Design). It was the top nominated film of the year, just like at BAFTA…

  • This Day in Oscar History: January 13 (2020)

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

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