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Category: Academy Awards History

  • Precursor: 10th Make-Up Artists Guild Nominations (2018)

    The Hollywood Make-Up Artists & Hair Stylists Guild is one of the few guilds who have categories that can feature multiple nominees. Usually, if you see a film appear in three categories, they are a major player for the Oscar. There are none of those this year. Instead, we have seven films with two citations…

  • Oscar Profile #426: Ethel Waters

    Born October 31, 1896 in Chester, Pennsylvania as the result of the rape of her 15-year-mother Louise Anderson by her 18-year-old father, pianist John Waters, Ethel Waters was raised in poverty by her grandmother, Sally Anderson who worked as a housemaid, along with two aunts and an uncle, her mother having married another man shortly…

  • This Day in Oscar History: January 10 (2019)

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

  • Precursor: 60th British Academy Nominations (2018)

    It’s not surprising that British productions have an advantage here. Of the six films nominated in Best British Film, three of them did far better here than either any other film or than expected. The Favourite was the nominations leader, even without the British Film citation. It made it into every conceivable category. Bohemian Rhapsody…

  • This Day in Oscar History: January 9 (2019)

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

  • Precursor: 22nd Toronto Critics – Canadian Film (2018)

    There’s not much to say here as neither the nominees nor the winner are important to the Oscar race itself. The Awards Best Canadian Film ANTHROPOCENE: The Human Epoch Toronto Film Critics Association Data First Awards: 1997 (22)

  • Precursor: 19th Vancouver Critics – Canadian Film Awards (2018)

    Another list of winners that won’t have a huge impact on the Oscars, Edge of the Knife wins the Vancouver Critics prize while Toronto winner ANTHROPOCENE takes the documentary prize here. Award Tallies (4) Edge of the Knife (2) Roads in February, When the Storm Fades The Awards

  • Precursor: 10th GALECA Awards (2018)

    When even the LGBTQ film critics can take a path not unlike every other group, you know things have settled into a pattern. Award Tallies (3) The Favourite (2) Can You Ever Forgive Me? The Awards

  • 91st Oscars: Screener Watch, Week 7

    Apparently missing everyone’s deadline, Mary Queen of Scots arrived this week after voting was finished. Mary Queen of Scots Oscar Chances: Uncertain: While the film could still show up in Production Design and/or Costume Design, the film’s weak reception with critics and at the box office means that it’s mostly an also-ran. Campaign-Proposed Categories Picture…

  • Precursor: 26th Cinema Audio Society Nominations (2018)

    There weren’t a lot of surprises from the Cinema Audio Society with its selections mirroring a lot of conventional wisdom. The lone exception to that is the massive production of Mary Poppins Returns, which I had thought was a shoe-in here. Instead, the late-breaking support for Bohemian Rhapsody appears to have pushed it ahead of…

  • Precursor: 71st Directors Guild Nominations (2018)

    While it’s great to see Spike Lee nominated, the exclusion of the likes of Barry Jenkins and Yorgos Lanthimos is everely disappointing. Also disappointing is that Ari Aster wasn’t nominated for Best First Feature. The Nominations Best Director BlacKkKlansman – Spike Lee Green Book – Peter Farrelly Roma – Alfonso Cuaron A Star Is Born…

  • This Day in Oscar History: January 8 (2019)

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

  • Precursor: 8th Georgia Critics Nominations (2018)

    The Georgia film critics announced their nominations and apart from a lack of love for Vice, they have mainly stuck with the current wisdom on the awards race. The Won’t You Be My Neighbor? citation in Best Picture is a first. If Beale Street Could Talk continues to do better with critics than with the…

  • Precursor: 10th Denver Film Critics Nominations (2018)

    For a film that’s not nominated for their Best Film award, the Denver film critics sure loved Black Panther, giving it a nomination-topping 7 citations, including Best Director. Just below that is The Favourite, which did land a Best Film nomination. These selections are a smattering of expected and not-quite-expected, but not unexpected choices. Nominations…

  • Precursor: 33rd Society of Cinematographers Nominations (2018)

    Once again If Beale Street Could Talk is proving to be anathema to the guilds with its failure to place in the cinematography category over the less well received lensings of First Man, The Favourite, and A Star Is Born. A disappointing development. The Nominations Best Cinematography Cold War The Favourite First Man Roma A…

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