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Category: Academy Awards History

  • Precursor: 3rd Chicago Independent Critics Nominations (2018)

    In many ways, this list is better than the Oscar nominations, though it’s imperfect with people like Melissa McCarthy unfairly overlooked. Nominations Tallies (11) Black Panther (9) The Favourite, Roma (8) First Man (6) If Beale Street Could Talk, A Star Is Born (5) Vice (4) Annihilation, BlacKkKlansman (3) Eighth Grade, First Reformed, Hereditary, Widows…

  • This Day in Oscar History: January 26 (2019)

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

  • Oscar in Box Office History (Week 4, 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…

  • 2018 Precursor Predictions: Screen Actors Guild

    With nary a consensus heading into Oscar voting, it will be interesting to see what SAG voters pick since actors makeup the largest portion of the Academy’s membership. Of course SAG also has AFTRA mixed in, which means a lot of television voters. While the massive SAG-AFTRA organization dwarfs the Academy, there’s no question there’s…

  • This Day in Oscar History: January 25 (2019)

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

  • Oscar Profile #428: Willem Dafoe Revisited

    Born July 22, 1955 in Appleton, Wisconsin, William J, Dafoe was one of eight children whose parents were a surgeon and a nurse who worked together constantly, leaving the future actor to be raised by his five older sisters. He became known as “Willem”, the Dutch name for “William”, while in high school. Dafoe studied…

  • This Day in Oscar History: January 24 (2019)

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

  • 2018 Oscar Winner Predictions: Post-Nominations

    After a rather unusual nominations announcement this morning, our contributors have come together to put out this first post-nominations predictions set. We have very little agreement here and that’s interesting. As to how we performed on the nominations, here are our results. Thomas La Tourrette topped the list with 95 correct predictions. Wesley Lovell came…

  • This Day in Oscar History: January 23 (2019)

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

  • 91st Oscar Nominations

    The nominations have been announced with numerous surprises throughout. Things started out with a surprise with the nomination of Marina de Tavira in Supporting Actress over Claire Foy, showcasing not only First Man‘s ultimate collapse and Roma‘s dominance. The only place Roma didn’t show up was Film Editing, giving it a tough path to the…

  • This Day in Oscar History: January 22 (2019)

    Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Our Site Milestones Born Died Released Oscar Nominations Our Site Milestones 2010: The Oscar Guy Became Cinema Sight (9)

  • Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 10

    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). The last of the guilds and other major nominating groups were announced this last week with a smattering…

  • Oscar Morning: The Article (2018)

    FOR AN OSCAR MORNING TRACKING SHEET, CLICK HERE. My predictions are in BOLD. It’s hard to know precisely how the Academy will handle this year’s announcements. We have the list of categories that will be announced in which grouping, we have where they will be announcing the nominations, and we have who will be announcing.…

  • 2018 Oscar Nominations Predictions: Final

    As is our tradition, May begins our first predictive look at the year’s Oscar hopefuls. A lot of factors will play into how well our guesses hold up. Expect many of them to fall by the wayside as the year progresses and new contenders to rise into their places. Tomorrow morning, the Academy of Motion…

  • This Day in Oscar History: January 21 (2019)

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

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