Category: Academy Awards History
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 7, 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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2018 Precursor Predictions: Cinema Audio Society
A solid predictor of the Sound Mixing Oscar winner, their choice will definitely get a boost going into Oscar night. CINEMA AUDIO SOCIETY AWARDS Best Sound Mixing – Live Action Black Panther (Peter) Bohemian Rhapsody (Wesley, RU:Tripp, RU:Thomas) First Man A Quiet Place (Tripp, RU:Wesley, RU:Peter) A Star Is Born (Thomas) Wesley Lovell: If they…
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2018 Precursor Predictions: Make-Up Artists Guild
The Hollywood Make-Up and Hair-Stylists Guild is one of the newest groups handing out awards and they haven’t been able to generate any kind of pattern in terms of their predictability. Having five categories that could match might help a little. MAKE-UP ARTISTS & HAIR STYLISTS GUILD AWARDS Best Period and/or Character Make-up Bohemian Rhapsody…
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2018 Precursor Predictions: Motion Picture Sound Editors
The Motion Picture Sound Editors Golden Reel Awards have bountiful nominations and before the expansion to five nominees at the Oscars, weren’t particularly instructive. Now, they have a bit more influence and a bit more cross-over. MOTION PICTURE SOUND EDITORS AWARDS Best Sound Editing: Sound Effects and Foley in a Feature Film Avengers: Infinity War…
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2018 Precursor Predictions: Writers Guild of America
The Writers Guild of America, because of their notoriously stringent nominations guidelines (non-guild signatories are completely ineligible, so foreign films, animated films, and smaller independents tend to be out of their race). This has created some suspense going into Oscar night as some of the Oscar frontrunners (like The Favourite this year) weren’t eligible to…
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The Rundown 2018: Directing
For our fifteenth Rundown article, the person most responsible for bringing all of the parts together. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Directing as well as general commentary about the race. Next week, we’ll start off on Monday with a category that quite possibly is the first building block…
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91st Oscars: The Polls – Best Actress
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…
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This Day in Oscar History: February 15 (2019)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Our Site Milestones Born Died Released Oscar Nominations Our Site Milestones 1996: The Oscar Guy Launched on GeoCities (23)
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Oscar Profile #431: Margaret Rutherford
Born May 11, 1892 in London, England, Margaret Rutherford was the only child of William Rutherford Benn, a journalist and poet and his wife, Florence. Her parents were married in 1882. In 1883, her father murdered his father, a Congregational Church minister, was declared insane and admitted to Bethnal House Lunatic Asylum where he spent…
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The Rundown 2018: Makeup & Hairstyling
For our fourteenth Rundown article, a category where putting on disguises is the name of the game. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Makeup & Hairstyling as well as general commentary about the race. ///Next week, we’ll start off on Monday with a category Friday, we’ll cover the person…
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91st Oscars: The Polls – Best Film Editing
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…
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This Day in Oscar History: February 14 (2019)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released Oscar Nominations
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Precursor: 50th NAACP Image Awards Nominations (2018)
The NAACP Image Award, an annual recognition of films, television, music, and more that celebrate the black experience in America, have made some stellar selections with Crazy Rich Asians the only title that has no black actors in it, but all of which celebrate diversity in one way or another. It should be quite telling…
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The Rundown 2018: Animated Feature
For our thirteenth Rundown article, the best feature of the year that isn’t live-action. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Animated Feature as well as general commentary about the race. Thursday, we’ll cover a category where making someone look like someone else is the key.
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91st Oscars: The Polls – Best Visual Effects
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…
