Category: Academy Awards History
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This Day in Oscar History: January 1 (2019)
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Precursor: 13th Oklahoma Critics Awards (2018)
Another group has fallen in love with Roma and a number of other selections other groups have been making. Their lone claim to originality is the selection of Yalitza Aparicio as Best Actress. Award Tallies (3) Roma (2) First Reformed, If Beale Street Could Talk, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse The Awards
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Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 7
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). Only two groups announced anything in the last week, which doesn’t make for an exciting one, but the…
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This Day in Oscar History: December 31 (2018)
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This Day in Oscar History: December 30 (2018)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Our Site Milestones Born Died Released Our Site Milestones 2011: Friday Face-Off (7) 2015: Eyeing the Truth by Tripp Burton (3)
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This Day in Oscar History: December 29 (2018)
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Precursor: 14th Austin Critics Nominations (2018)
The first group to put If Beale Stree Could Talk on even footing with The Favourite and ahead of Roma otherwise went in expected directions. Nominations Tallies (9) The Favourite, If Beale Street Could Talk (7) Roma (4) Eighth Grade, First Man (3) Black Panther, Burning, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Sorry to Bother You,…
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 52 & 53, 2018)
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: December 28 (2018)
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Oscar Profile #424: Julie Andrews
Born October 1, 1935 in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England as Julia Elizabeth Wells, the internationally acclaimed superstar known professionally as Julie Andrews took the last name of her stepfather (Ted Andrews) when her mother remarried in 1944. Andrews began performing at early age with her mother and stepfather who were both music hall performers. Just after…
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This Day in Oscar History: December 27 (2018)
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Precursor: 7th North Carolina Critics Nominations (2018)
North Carolina critics have deemed If Beale Street Could Talk and Roma as among the year’s best films, giving them each six nominations. The nominations list gives First Man more credit than usual and A Star Is Born five nominations, but not one for Best Picture. Nominations Tallies (6) If Beale Street Could Talk, Roma…
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Precursor: 22nd Online Critics Nominations (2018)
The Online Film Critics Society, of which I am a member and serve on the Governing Committee announced their nominees today for the best of the year. There are some interesting choices, but also some choices that have been very common throughout awards season. Award Tallies (8) The Favourite (7) Roma (6) If Beale Street…
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This Day in Oscar History: December 26 (2018)
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91st Oscars: Screener Watch, Week 6
Netflix sent a huge package containing quite a few duplicates, but also some new titles. This is probably the last batch before the set I will get from the Independent Spirit Awards.
