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Category: Academy Awards History

  • This Day in Oscar History: December 10 (2016)

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

  • Oscar in Box Office History (Week 50, 2016)

    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…

  • This Day in Oscar History: December 9 (2016)

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

  • Precursor: 16th American Film Institute (2016)

    The American Film Institute has selected its ten films that they consider are the best of the year. The only stipulation is that they be American productions. Thus, foreign language films, and many British, Canadian, and Australian films are ineligible. I haven’t had time to look over the list to decide what isn’t there that…

  • Oscar Profile #137: Robert Morley

    Born May 26, 1908 in Semley, Wilshire, England, Robert Morley was the son of a major in the British Army and a German-born mother. Educated in England, Germany, France and Italy, he was expected to go into diplomatic service, but chose acting instead. Morley made his West End debut in a 1929 production of Treasure…

  • Precursor: 1st Atlanta Critics Awards (2016)

    These posted Sunday and while I had the info then, I just didn’t find the spare time to post them. As this is a new organization, it’s impossible to know their predictive capabilities, but they went a fairly predictable route, so it’s possible they do well. Award Tallies (4) La La Land (2) Manchester by…

  • This Day in Oscar History: December 8 (2016)

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

  • This Day in Oscar History: December 7 (2016)

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

  • 89th Oscars: Documentary Feature Shortlist

    The short-shortlist is the final round before Oscar nominations are announced. Although the Academy usually issues press releases on these things, they have not done so yet. However, this is being heavily reported, I will post the list without the full press release. Cameraperson Command and Control The Eagle Huntress Fire at Sea Gleason Hooligan…

  • Precursor: 59th Grammy Awards Nominations (2016)

    Grammy rules set the eligibility period from October through September, meaning their list includes releases from 2015 and 2016. This particularly frustrates Oscar observers because the Grammys are one of the few music-industry awards that recognize scores and songs. As such, we look to what shows up on this list to give us an idea…

  • This Day in Oscar History: December 6 (2016)

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

  • 89th Oscars: Jimmy Kimmel to Host Academy Awards

    Through decidedly different channels, it was announced today that Jimmy Kimmel, host of ABC’s late night program will host this year’s Oscars, his first time doing so. The announcement is/was being made on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Here’s the Academy’s press release on the announcement. JIMMY KIMMEL TALKS OSCARS® HOST GIG ON “JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE!” To…

  • Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 2

    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). A small raft of precursors were handed out this week, both in terms of actual award and nominations.…

  • Precursor: 15th DC Critics Awards (2016)

    The Washington D.C. Area critics were over the moon for La La Land, handing the film a staggering 7 awards. This is the first blow-out the film has received this season and suggests it will be a much stronger player than previously thought. Natalie Portman and Viola Davis notch their first wins on what is…

  • 89th Oscars: Screener Watch: Nov. 28-Dec. 4, 2016

    This week, eight new films arrived in my mailbox. Three were from Netflix Studios; three were from Focus Features; one was from Cohen Media/Amazon Studios; and the other was from regular Amazon Studios. Here is what arrived. 13th Oscar Chances: Excellent: Ava DuVernay’s Selma scraped by with a small number of nominations, winning Best Original…

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