Category: Academy Awards History
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Precursor: 8th Boston Online Critics Awards (2019)
The Boston online film critics group selected their winners for 2019 and announced very early with a press release this morning. At the top of the list was Parasite, securing Best Picture, Director, and Foreign Language Film awards. Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood was not to be outdone with three as well giving prizes…
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This Day in Oscar History: December 14 (2019)
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Precursor: 3rd Online Female Critics Nominations (2019)
This is a newer film critic organization, so I don’t know how they typically make selections, but this year’s batch of nominees looks quite a bit like most of the other nomination slates so far with the exception of a more fond appreciation of Honey Boy. Nominations Tallies (7) Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood…
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Precursor: 20th Vancouver Critics Nominations (2019)
Vancouver film critics have a small slate of awards that recognize the best films of the year released in Canada while featuring a larger batch of nominations for Canadian-only films. With the smaller number of Canadian contenders, the top nominees are largely canadian films with The Twentieth Century topping all others with seven. Two more…
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Precursor: 23rd Las Vegas Critics Awards (2019)
With only two films taking more than one award and one of them far outpacing the others, the Las Vegas film critics have chosen a slate of winners that looks very familiar. Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood was the dominant film, collecting six awards while Dolemite Is My Name was the only other multi-winner…
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 50, 2019)
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: December 13 (2019)
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Precursor: 32nd Chicago Critics Nominations (2019)
The Chicago Film Critics Association have announced their nominees for this year and a lot of the same contenders have shown up here further cementing them all as contenders, even if some will ultimately not make it to the Oscars. Award Tallies (9) Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood (8) The Irishman, Little Women (7)…
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Oscar Profile #474: Edward Lachman
Born March 31, 1948 in Morristown, New Jersey, Edward (Ed) Lachman is the son of Rosabel and Edward Lachman, a movie theatre distributer and owner. He attended Harvard University and studied in France at the University of Tours before pursuing a BFA in painting at Ohio University. Mentored in cinematography by such masters as Robby…
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This Day in Oscar History: December 12 (2019)
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Precursor: 6th Phoenix Critics Circle Nominations (2019)
Spreading the love around, the Phoenix Film Critics Circle, one of two groups in the Phoenix area, stuck with a lot of the same titles in its selections for its nominations this year. Nothing particularly surprising, though Parasite doing as well as a major Hollywood production is a good sign for the little South Korean…
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Precursor: 59th American Cinema Editors Nominations (2019)
Showing us the films that are going to be Best Picture players, the American Cinema Editors have selected most of the safe and expected choices. There are no shocking omissions here that I can think of, though The Farewell didn’t seem like the kind of film that would make this list, but that does give…
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Precursor: 26th Screen Actors Guild Nominations (2019)
You can always expect the Screen Actors Guild is going to shake up the conversation and this year is proof. Marriage Story missed out on an ensemble, but received three acting nominations. Meanwhile, Parasite got no individual nominations, but was included for the ensemble award. There weren’t a ton of surprises here with Parasite being…
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This Day in Oscar History: December 11 (2019)
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Precursor: 22nd Costume Designers Guild Nominations (2019)
The biggest surprise omission here is Little Women, while something as generally tradition as The Irishman was ignored as was 1917. That said, this list doesn’t carry any real surprises as many of the top contenders are here and Disney has once again dominated with all five slots in the Fantasy category. The Awards
