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Category: Academy Awards History

  • 90th Oscars: The Polls – Best Film Editing

    For the next two weeks, we’re going to present to you polls for who and what you think the best of 2017 was based on the Oscar nominations. Every morning at 8am and 8pm, we’ll post a new poll for each category. Just submit your vote for the best in that category and that’s it.…

  • This Day in Oscar History: February 25 (2018)

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

  • Precursor: 25th Cinema Audio Society Awards (2017)

    Finally winning an expected award this season, Dunkirk just confirmed itself as the frontrunner for Best Sound Mixing and may have helped itself to the Best Sound Editing award since they often go together. The Awards Best Sound Mixing – Live Action Dunkirk (Wesley, Tripp, Thomas, RU:Peter) Best Sound Mixing – Animated Coco (Wesley, Peter,…

  • 90th Oscars: The Polls – Best Cinematography

    For the next two weeks, we’re going to present to you polls for who and what you think the best of 2017 was based on the Oscar nominations. Every morning at 8am and 8pm, we’ll post a new poll for each category. Just submit your vote for the best in that category and that’s it.…

  • 90th Oscars: The Polls – Best Production Design

    For the next two weeks, we’re going to present to you polls for who and what you think the best of 2017 was based on the Oscar nominations. Every morning at 8am and 8pm, we’ll post a new poll for each category. Just submit your vote for the best in that category and that’s it.…

  • This Day in Oscar History: February 24 (2018)

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

  • 90th Oscars: The Polls – Best Costume Design

    For the next two weeks, we’re going to present to you polls for who and what you think the best of 2017 was based on the Oscar nominations. Every morning at 8am and 8pm, we’ll post a new poll for each category. Just submit your vote for the best in that category and that’s it.…

  • Oscar in Box Office History (Week 8, 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…

  • 2017 Precursor Predictions: Make-Up Artists Guild

    Although the Make-Up Artists & Hair Stylists Guild has five categories, only the special make-up effects really has any bearing on Oscar as the others are not things the typical Academy voter even looks at when voting in the Makeup & Hairstyling category, in spite of the name change. It doesn’t help that the branch…

  • 2017 Precursor Predictions: Cinema Audio Society

    The Cinema Audio Society has, over the years had varying degrees of success forecasting the Oscars. They have three categories, but only one correlates to the Oscars and that’s the one for live-action films. Here are our predictions in those categories just in time for the awards Saturday night. CINEMA AUDIO SOCIETY AWARDS Best Sound…

  • The Rundown 2017: Supporting Actor

    For our seventeenth Rundown article, we look at the secondary male acting category. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Supporting Actor as well as general commentary about the race. Next week, we’ll start off on Monday with a category where Best Picture nominees are most required to feature a…

  • 90th Oscars: The Polls – Best Makeup & Hairstyling

    For the next two weeks, we’re going to present to you polls for who and what you think the best of 2017 was based on the Oscar nominations. Every morning at 8am and 8pm, we’ll post a new poll for each category. Just submit your vote for the best in that category and that’s it.…

  • This Day in Oscar History: February 23 (2018)

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

  • 90th Oscars: The Polls – Best Sound Mixing

    For the next two weeks, we’re going to present to you polls for who and what you think the best of 2017 was based on the Oscar nominations. Every morning at 8am and 8pm, we’ll post a new poll for each category. Just submit your vote for the best in that category and that’s it.…

  • Oscar Profile #380: Franco Zeffirelli

    Born February 12, 1923 in Florence, Italy, Franco Zeffirelli was the product of an affair between a fashion designer and a wool and silk dealer, both of whom were married to others. Unable to give her child either name, his mother came up with “Zeffiretti”, the little breezes mentioned in Mozart’s opera, Indomeneo. However, the…

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