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Category: Academy Awards History

  • 91st Oscars: The Polls – Best Picture

    For the next 24 days, we’re going to present to you polls for who and what you think the best of 2018 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: February 22 (2019)

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

  • Precursor: 21st Film Music Critics Awards (2018)

    Solo: A Star Wars Story was the most honored score of the year even without an Oscar nomination. The only Oscar nominee to earn an aawrd was Mary Poppins Returns in the comedy category. Award Tallies (3) Solo The Awards

  • Oscar Profile #432: Donald Sutherland

    Born July 17, 1935 in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, Donald Sutherland survived rheumatic fever, hepatitis and polio as a child to study engineering in college but gave it up to study drama in England’s London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) in 1957. He later spent a year and a half in a…

  • 91st Oscars: Oscar Guy’s Final Thoughts

    There’s not much time left. Sunday, we will find out just how much we did and did not know about this Oscar season. While I’ve contributed quick thoughts to our Rundown articles, I always like to do more with my final prediction post of the year. This will include how I think the races will…

  • The Rundown 2018: Costume Design

    For our nineteenth Rundown article, we look at a category that is frocking amazing. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Costume Design as well as general commentary about the race. Friday, we’ll cover the big one.

  • 91st Oscars: The Polls – Best Original Screenplay

    For the next 24 days, we’re going to present to you polls for who and what you think the best of 2018 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: February 21 (2019)

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

  • 91st Oscars – Presenters, Part 4

    More non-film-related presenters that don’t quite make a lot of sense. A chef, a congressman, and a tennis player. The whiffs of Allan Carr’s disastrous 61st Oscars in 1989 are everywhere. OSCARS® ROUND 4: ELEVEN UNIQUE TALENTS INTRODUCE BEST PICTURES Chef José Andrés, Dana Carvey, Queen Latifah, Congressman John Lewis, Diego Luna, Tom Morello, Mike…

  • The Rundown 2018: Sound Mixing & Editing

    For our eighteenth Rundown article, we examine categories whose innovation was in their infancy when the Academy was founded. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Sound Mixing and Best Sound Editing as well as general commentary about the race. Thursday, we’ll cover a frocking amazing category.

  • 91st Oscars: The Polls – Best Animated Feature

    For the next 24 days, we’re going to present to you polls for who and what you think the best of 2018 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: February 20 (2019)

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

  • Precursor: 21st Costume Designers Guild Awards (2018)

    The Oscar frontrunners are the winners here, which will make for an interesting race at the Oscars where The Favourite and Black Panther will battle it out. The former has legendary, 14-time nominee Sandy Powell while the latter has another legendary costume designer Ruth Carter, who has never won before. The Awards Best Period Costume…

  • 91st Oscars – Presenters, Part 3

    Nice to see a better mix of new and familiar stars, though Krysten Ritter seems an odd choice considering she’s primarily a television performer. ROUND 3: A DOZEN MORE STARS TAKE OSCARS® STAGE Elsie Fisher, Danai Gurira, Brian Tyree Henry, Michael B. Jordan, Michael Keaton, Helen Mirren, John Mulaney, Tyler Perry, Pharrell Williams, Krysten Ritter,…

  • The Rundown 2018: Visual Effects

    For our seventeenth Rundown article, we review an inventive category where something is created where nothing existed before. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Visual Effects as well as general commentary about the race. Wednesday, we’ll cover categories whose innovation existed in its infancy when the Academy was founded.

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