Category: Academy Awards History
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92nd Oscars: Screener Watch – Week 4
A large batch of screeners arrived this week. Below, they are revealed in order of receipt. Starting with Bleecker Street, then several Netflix documentaries, followed by the Magnolia/Magnet batch is up next, with National Geographic up next, and finishing off with DreamWorks’ latest Abominable. Bleecker Street Arctic Oscar Chances: Unlikely: The film never managed to…
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This Day in Oscar History: November 18 (2019)
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This Day in Oscar History: November 17 (2019)
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This Day in Oscar History: November 16 (2019)
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 46, 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. All data is collected from Box Office Mojo. The first section under each year is the positioning of all Oscar nominees during that weekend at the…
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This Day in Oscar History: November 15 (2019)
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Oscar Profile #470: Haley Joel Osment
Born April 10, 1988 in Los Angeles, California, Haley Joel Osment is the son of teacher Theresa and actor Eugene Osment. He was signed with a talent agent at the age of four. At an audition, he was asked to describe the biggest thing he had ever seen; his description of an IMAX theater screen…
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This Day in Oscar History: November 14 (2019)
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This Day in Oscar History: November 13 (2019)
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This Day in Oscar History: November 12 (2019)
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Precursor: 11th Make-Up Artists Guild Nominations (2019)
The big surprise of these nominations is the triple nomination for Bombshell, a film that never seemed like the kind of film to earn nominations from this group. The Irishman is also surprising considering the de-aging technology used on that film, which will likely make it Oscar-ineligible. Rocketman is certainly no surprise and Joker also…
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92nd Oscars: Screener Watch – Week 3
This week saw several packages including content from Laika, DreamWorks Animation, A24, and Universal. Missing Link Oscar Chances: Uncertain: Laika is the only animation studio that has a 100% success rate in earning Oscar nominations. It hasn’t won yet. This film will test that studio’s strengths. It had solid, but unexceptional reviews and was far…
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This Day in Oscar History: November 11 (2019)
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Precursor: 45th People’s Choice Awards (2019)
While the People’s Choice Awards have never been the bastions of taste, they have always had a popular streak. That popularity was reserved for the biggest movies of the year; however, over the years, the organization seems to be attracting fewer and fewer mainstream audience voters and more and more younger voters. While Avengers: Endgame…
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Precursor: 4th Critics Choice Documentary Awards (2019)
Ever since the Broadcast Film Critics Association split their documentary awards off from their main awards ceremony, they’ve been able to recognize far more documentaries than previously. This gives us a broad idea of which documentaries are in contention for the Oscars and a lot of selections that aren’t. Titles like They Shall Not Grow…
