Category: Academy Awards History
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2017 Precursor Predictions: Costume Designers Guild
The Costume Designers Guild recognizes the best in costume design for the year and, being broken into three categories, has three opportunities to try and correctly predict the Oscars. This year, there’s only two as none of the contemporary nominees made it to the Oscar nominations and the two biggest competitors, Phantom Thread and Beauty…
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The Rundown 2017: Actor
For our thirteenth Rundown article, we tackle the top male acting category. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Actor as well as general commentary about the race. Tuesday, we’ll cover a category that has seldom matched up with Best Picture even when it’s one of the most crucial elements…
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90th Oscars: The Polls – Best Live Action Short Film
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.…
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This Day in Oscar History: February 19 (2018)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released Oscar Nominations
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Precursor: 65th Sound Editors Guild Awards (2017)
In a surprise for this Oscar season, not only did no film win more than one award from the sound editors, but Blade Runner 2049 took the top award for sound effects and foley while non-Oscar nominee War for the Planet of the Apes captured the Dialogue/ADR award. While Oscar voters aren’t always keen on…
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Precursor: 59th British Academy Awards (2017)
The British Academy has selected its winners for this year and a lot of pieces have fallen into place and perhaps not good ones. Three Billboards decimated competition, winning Best Film as well as Best Original Screenplay, the two awards where it had the most competition. It’s victory sets it up as the strongest Best…
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Precursor: 22nd Online Film & Television Awards (2017)
The Online Film & Television Association has announced its 2017 awards winners. While most of the winners match what a lot of people are thinking are the Oscar frontrunners, they’ve managed to push forward a couple of ideas: Lady Bird and Get Out are stronger in competition than some might thing with Get Out taking…
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Precursor: 22nd Satellite Awards (2017)
In the department of awards that no one seemed to care about, the International Press Academy has selected their winners for 2017. The reason I ask if anyone cares is that we are now a week after their supposed presentation date of February 11 and I’ve only now found their winners. I looked the night…
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This Day in Oscar History: February 18 (2018)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Precursor: 32nd Cinematographers Guild Awards (2017)
The cinematographers have spoken and although they haven’t the greatest Oscar track record, Blade Runner 2049 remains in the race. Had anyone else, especially Mudbound won, Blade Runner 2049 would have been done at the Oscars. It now lives on to compete with Roger Deakins potentially winning his richly deserved first Oscar. The Awards Best…
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2017 Precursor Predictions: Motion Picture Sound Editors
The Motion Picture Sound Editors, those fine folk who contribute to the Best Sound Editing (formerly Best Sound Effects Editing) Oscar will reveal their winners on Sunday. With seven categories, it’s hard to be certain which will most reflect thoughts of Oscar voters, there are really only two categories that typically correlate: Sound Effects and…
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This Day in Oscar History: February 17 (2018)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released Oscar Nominations
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90th Oscars: Presenters, Group 1
The Academy has announced its first batch of presenters. They are set out in the press release below. Included in the list are last year’s Best Supporting Actor (Mahershala Ali), last year’s Best Supporting Actress (Viola Davis), and last year’s Best Actress (Emma Stone). It has already been announced that Casey Affleck will not return…
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 7, 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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2017 Precursor Predictions: British Academy
Once upon a time, the British Academy of Film & Television Arts gave out their awards after the Oscars, making them mostly an afterthought and, in some situations, a copycat. Then they shifted to before the Oscars and since then, they have become a major bellwether. What we are looking for here is not for…
