Category: Academy Awards History
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92nd Oscars: Screener Watch – Week 6
The week of Thanksgiving started out really slow, but the Friday after and Saturday say an uptick in receipts. Here’s what we have…things started off with Fox Searchlight as the only title received prior to Thursday. After that, we got two separate packages for Amazon, a soundtrack from United Artists, then two different packages from…
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This Day in Oscar History: December 2 (2019)
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This Day in Oscar History: December 1 (2019)
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This Day in Oscar History: November 30 (2019)
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 48, 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: November 29 (2019)
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Oscar Profile #472: Thanksgiving Revisited
If this seems familiar, it’s because it’s basically a reprint of last year’s Thanksgiving article. Holidays have been celebrated in films since their inception. There have been films about virtually all of them. 1942’s Holiday Inn with Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire is in fact a celebration of all of the U.S. holidays. We have…
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This Day in Oscar History: November 28 (2019)
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This Day in Oscar History: November 27 (2019)
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This Day in Oscar History: November 26 (2019)
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Precursor: 3rd Hollywood Critics Nominations (2019)
The Hollywood Critics Association got out of the gate first among critics organizations, but their newness isn’t something that speaks to credibility. They seemed to love Quentin Tarantino’s film more than others while several titles earned strong nomination sets in spite of earlier letdowns (Waves and The Farewell for example). Still, Bombshell, which earned 9…
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Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 1
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). With the Spirit Award nominations announced, Precursor Season for the 92nd Academy Awards is in full swing with…
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92nd Oscars: Screener Watch – Week 5
CBS Films started off the week with a documentary screener and that was followed by another A24 delivery, then one form Paramount, one from STX, and finally two from Roadside Attractions. Here they are. CBS Films Pavarotti Oscar Chances: Unknown: I’m not that familiar with the Documentary Feature contenders this year, so I don’t have…
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92nd Oscars: Upcoming Precursors – December
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: November 25 (2019)
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