Category: Oscar Preview
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Oscar Preview: Weekend of May 3-5, 2019
We had no films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations.
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Oscar Preview: Weekend of Apr. 26-28, 2019
We had one film release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Avengers: Endgame Before Captain America: The Winter Soldier, only films featuring Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) ever picked up Oscar nominations. Since then, only one such film has: Avengers: Infinity War. What this says about the Marvel Cinematic Universe is that…
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Oscar Preview: Weekend of Apr. 19-21, 2019
We had no films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations.
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Oscar Preview: Weekend of Apr. 12-14, 2019
We had one film release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Missing Link There is only one studio to date that has managed to secure a Best Animated Feature nomination every time they’ve made a movie. Not Pixar. Not Disney. Not Aardman. Laika is the undisputed king of the Animated Feature category,…
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Oscar Preview: Weekend of Apr. 5-7, 2019
We had no films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations.
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Oscar Preview: Weekend of Mar. 29-31, 2019
We had one film release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Dumbo The latest film in Disney’s attempts to update their animated properties into live-action, Dumbo takes us back to the world of an elephant with huge ears who can fly. The original delight audiences for generations since its 1941. Will returning…
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Oscar Preview: Weekend of Mar. 22-24, 2019
We had one film release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Us A scant two years ago, Jordan Peele entered the Oscar lexicon with his instant horror classic Get Out. He sticks to the horror genre with his second feature as a director, Us. Starring Lupita Nyong’o, the film follows a family…
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Oscar Preview: Weekend of Mar. 15-17, 2019
We had no films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations.
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Oscar Preview: Weekend of Mar. 8-10, 2019
We had two films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Captain Marvel Disney/Marvel has had an off-again, on-again relationship with the Oscars. Captain Marvel hopes to be more like Black Panther than like any other film in the Marvel Cinematic Unvierse. Marvel’s first female-led superhero film looks at Carol Danvers as…
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Oscar Preview: Weekend of January 1 – March 1, 2019
We had two films release so far this year with the potential for Oscar nominations. The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part Five years ago, The Lego Movie thrilled audiences and soared to $257 million at the domestic box office and racked 25 wins as Best Animated Feature through precursor season, 22 more than its…
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Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 15
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). And there we have it. The 91st Academy Award are over and we’re free for nine months until…
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Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 14
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). This is our penultimate week looking at the winners and losers. Next week, we’ll be looking at the…
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Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 13
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). This was the week that Oscar season took some strange, unexpected turns. But, before we get into this…
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Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 12
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). With a handful of precursors this past week, one of them being the Directors Guild of America, there…
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Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 11
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). With so little from the past week to talk about (the Chicago Independent Film Critics nominations and the…
