Category: Academy Awards History
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Best Makeup
Just under two weeks left until the 82nd Academy Awards. Today, we’re looking at the Best Makeup award. Below are five facts, our predictions for winners and alternates, and our favorite and least favorite winners in this category. Trivia: Five Facts Given as special honorary awards in 1964 and 1968, the category was not made…
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Favorite Oscar Moments, Part IV
Our coverage of our favorite Oscar moments continue with our fourth issue. Peter J. Patrick 1974, 47th Academy Awards Ingrid Bergman wins her third Oscar for Murder on the Orient Express and asks co-nominee Valentina Cortese (Day for Night) to forgive her for winning instead of her.
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Best Foreign Language Film
We begin our daily Oscar predictions coverage with the Best Supporting Actress category. Each day between now and the Friday before the Academy Awards, we here at CinemaSight will be presenting a category-by-category analysis of the races including trivia about the category, our predictions and alternates, and a glimpse out our favorite and least favorite…
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Favorite Oscar Moments, Part III
Controversy, grace and surprises have been an integral part of the greatest moments in Oscar history. Here we look at three of those events that have impressed themselves upon the minds of our contributors. Wesley Lovell 1972, 48th Academy Awards Oscars have been refused only a handful of times. The second time it occurred was…
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Best Director
Today, we take a look at the Best Director prize, one of the night’s most predictive categories. We’ll give you five interesting facts about the award, give you our predictions, and share our favorite and least favorite winners in the history of the Oscars. Trivia: Five Facts The first awards were given out at the…
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Favorite Oscar Moments, Part II
We continue our coverage of our favorite Oscar moments by looking at three new years: 1967, 1992 and 2001. In our mix are honorary Oscars, host antics and surprise appearances. Peter J. Patrick 1967, 40th Academy Awards Alfred Hitchcock wins his only Oscar, the Thalberg for producing, not directing. Wesley Lovell 1992, 65th Academy Awards…
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Favorite Oscar Moments, Part I
Everyone remembers something special about their Academy Awards experience. Whether it’s a famous speech, an incident or a great performance. What defines the Oscars for one individual is different from another. Cinema Sight begins its coverage of the most memorable moments in Oscar history…in our humble estimations. For the next 15 days, Peter, Tripp and…
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Best Art Direction
As we continue looking at the Oscars one category at a time, we move on to one of the most stylish awards, Best Art Direction, awarded to the film that created the best overall visual look and sets. Accompanying our predictions for the Oscar winner are some facts and our favorite and least favorite winners…
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Best Film Editing
Today, we’re going to be taking a look at the Best Editing category, our first tech category. Editing is often ignored as a tech category because it’s not always the most showy or noticeable, but when a film feels like, breezy, cohesive and comprehendable, that’s because the editor did his job. Sometimes it’s the job…
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Best Supporting Actor
Rounding out the supporting categories, today, we bring you the Best Supporting Actor race, some trivia about the category, and our picks for the best and worst the category has had to offer. Trivia: Five Facts Walter Brennan was the first winner of this category, established alongside Best Supporting Actress in 1936. Brennan was also…
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Best Animated Feature
We continue our category-by-category analysis of this year’s Oscar races with the Best Animated Feature award. Below are a few interesting facts, our predictions and alternates, and a list of our favorite and least favorite winners in this category. Trivia: Five Facts Animated Feature is the youngest category at the Oscars, having been created in…
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Best Supporting Actress
We begin our daily Oscar predictions coverage with the Best Supporting Actress category. Each day between now and the Friday before the Academy Awards, we here at CinemaSight will be presenting a category-by-category analysis of the races including trivia about the category, our predictions and alternates, and a glimpse out our favorite and least favorite…
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2008 at the Oscars
Although Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire proved unstoppable by the time the Oscars were given out for 2008, it was not an early favorite. Early speculation centered around such eagerly anticipated films as David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button; Gus Van Sant’s Milk; Ron Howard’s Frost/Nixon and John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt along with Christopher…
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2007 at the Oscars
2007 was a year in which a good deal of the Oscar prognosticators’ speculation centered on whether or not No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood would be too violent for Academy tastes. The more genteel violence of Sweeney Todd, Into the Wild and Atonement seemed more likely to them to pass…
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2006 at the Oscars
When film historians look back on the first decade of the new millennium, I have no doubt 2006 will be seen as the decade’s best year for film. It was the year that gave us such highly acclaimed films as Pan’s Labyrinth; Children of Men; The Departed; The Lives of Others and Letters From Iwo…
