Category: Oscar Preview

  • Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, FINAL

    The precursors are over and the Oscars are finished. Here are the winners and losers of Oscar Season 2016. Big Winners Moonlight came into the season the most acclaimed drama in the race. This exceedingly small indie wasn’t your typical Oscar vehicle, but through perseverance, support from critics, and a wave of audience appreciation, the…

  • 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). It’s almost over. Other than the Costume Designers Guild tonight, there is only one precursor left (The Spirit…

  • 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). This week, we had five precursors, four that could have Oscar impact and one that’s purely informative. The…

  • 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). A lot happened this weekend with the Directors Guild, Annie Awards, and Cinematographers selecting their winners for the…

  • Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 10

    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). I missed yesterday’s due date, so I’m catching up with the Oscar Preview post today. The Oscar nominations…

  • Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 9

    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). There were only two groups announcing this past week and neither will have significant impact on the Oscar…

  • Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 8

    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). The last week has been a whirlwind of precursor organizations announcing. Matter of fact, other than the Motion…

  • Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 7

    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). It’a big week in the precursors with several guilds announcing their nominations. While other groups announced last week,…

  • Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 6

    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). When I said yesterday that there weren’t any precursors in the prior week to merit an article, that…

  • Oscar Preview: Weekend of Dec. 30, 2016-Jan. 1, 2017

    With this, we reach then end of 2017. While some of these films opened on December 25, I counted them as full-weekend releases for the 53rd and final weekend of 2016. This is posting in place of the Precursor Winners & Losers article that is going up on Mondays through the end of Oscar season…

  • Oscar Preview: Weekend of Dec. 23-25, 2016

    We had five films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Passengers In spite of the critical drubbing this film has received, Passengers did satisfactorily at the U.S. box office. That means it’s not going to be instantly ignored by the Academy. When the project was announced, many thought that with Oscar…

  • Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 5

    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). Nearly all of the film critics groups have announced their prizes and the results aren’t offering anything new…

  • Oscar Preview: Weekend of Dec. 16-18, 2016

    We had two films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Rogue One One of the most storied franchises in history is also a fairly storied Oscar player. From the 1977 original to the 2015 rebirth, every Star Wars film has been nominated for or has won an Oscar. So, going into…

  • Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 4

    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). There aren’t many critics groups left and then we’ll be in the heart of the guild precursor season.…

  • Oscar Preview: Weekend of Dec. 9-11, 2016

    We had one film release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. La La Land Twenty years ago, the musical was reborn at the Oscars with five nominations presented to Evita. It was an inauspicious start, but within the next two decades, many would try to win accolades and few would succeed. In…

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