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Category: Academy Awards History

  • The Rundown 2021: Sound

    For our eighteenth Rundown article, we hear from our contributors on Sound. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Sound as well as general commentary about the race. Tuesday, we’ll cover Cinematography.

  • 94th Oscars: The Polls – Best Actor

    For the next 23 days, we’re going to present to you polls for who and what you think the best of 2021 was based on the Oscar nominations. Every morning at 8am, we’ll post a new poll for each category. Just submit your vote for the best in that category and that’s it. We’ll have…

  • This Day in Oscar History: March 21 (2022)

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

  • Precursor: 36th Society of Cinematographers Awards (2021)

    The results were expected and should manifest themselves once again at the Oscars. The Awards Best Cinematography Dune (Wesley, Tripp, RU:Peter) Documentary Faya Dayi (Wesley, Tripp, RU:Peter, RU:Thomas) Spotlight Award Pig (Peter, RU:Wesley, RU:Tripp) American Society of Cinematographers Data Year Founded: 1919 First Awards: 1986 (36)

  • Precursor: 74th Writers Guild Awards (2021)

    One unexpected victory and one expected one. They didn’t really give us anything more to chew on than we had before. It wasn’t really an even competition because neither of the main Oscar contenders were eligible. The Awards Best Original Screenplay Don’t Look Up (RU:Peter, RU:Tripp) Best Adapted Screenplay CODA (Wesley, Peter, Tripp, Thomas) Documentary…

  • 94th Oscars: The Polls – Best International Feature

    For the next 23 days, we’re going to present to you polls for who and what you think the best of 2021 was based on the Oscar nominations. Every morning at 8am, we’ll post a new poll for each category. Just submit your vote for the best in that category and that’s it. We’ll have…

  • This Day in Oscar History: March 20 (2022)

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

  • Precursor: 33rd Producers Guild Awards (2021)

    Leave it to the Producers Guild to screw up a generally deserving awards season. The Power of the Dog should have won Best Picture, but it lost out to the early festival fave CODA. Does this change the Oscar trajectory? Perhaps, but we’ll see how the preferential balloting handles this. The Awards Best Picture CODA…

  • Precursor: 29th Cinema Audio Society Awards (2021)

    As expected, Dune, Encanto, and Summer of Soul were the big winners at the Cinema Audio Society. The Awards Best Sound Mixing – Live Action Dune (Wesley, Peter, Tripp, Thomas) Best Sound Mixing – Animated Encanto (Wesley, Peter, Tripp, Thomas) Best Sound Mixing – Documentary Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be…

  • 94th Oscars: The Polls – Best Documentary Feature

    For the next 23 days, we’re going to present to you polls for who and what you think the best of 2021 was based on the Oscar nominations. Every morning at 8am, we’ll post a new poll for each category. Just submit your vote for the best in that category and that’s it. We’ll have…

  • This Day in Oscar History: March 19 (2022)

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

  • Precursor: 21st AARP Movies for Grownups Awards (2021)

    What a weird hodge podge of selections, none of which seem particularly instructive in the Oscar race and none of which that don’t really scream that the entire organization voted for them while some really do seem to scream that. AwardsTallies (2) King Richard The Awards

  • 94th Oscars: Musical Performers Announced

    94TH OSCARS® MUSICAL PERFORMERS TO INCLUDE ALL-STAR BAND FEATURING ADAM BLACKSTONE, TRAVIS BARKER, SHEILA E. AND ROBERT GLASPER; D-NICE; THE SAMPLES; AND ORCHESTRA D-NICE TO PERFORM BOTH DURING THE TELECAST AND AT THE GOVERNORS BALL THE OSCARS SET TO AIR LIVE, MARCH 27, ON ABC LOS ANGELES, CA — Show producers Will Packer and Shayla…

  • Oscar in Box Office History (Week 11, 2022)

    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. The first section under each year is the positioning of all Oscar nominees during that weekend at the box office (as well as a section looking…

  • 2021 Precursor Predictions: American Society of Cinematographers

    Having influence over the Best Cinematography category at the Oscars, the ASC has split quite often with the Academy and might be one of the oldest organizations to do so on a frequent basis. Will they be able to forecast the Oscar victor between Dune and The Power of the Dog? We shall see.

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