Category: Oscar Preview
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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). There’s only one major group left to give out prizes and I’m not talking about the uncharacteristic Writers…
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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). While this past week was the calm before the storm, the first showers are about to fall before…
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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). After another situation where a website said one thing when I looked and something else was the truth,…
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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). It may not seem like it now, but a lot has happened in the last week. While there…
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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). There was some big news this past week as the guilds have finally started revealing their nominations. We’ll…
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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). With only the National Society of Film Critics revealing their selections by the time I had to get…
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Oscar Preview: 2016 Holding Pattern
Normally, I review all the Oscar contenders releasing in a single week. However, with Oscar season going on, I’m covering the weekly winners & losers at the same time as writing this article. In addition, most of the films that release early in the year are seldom Oscar contenders. As such, after the Oscars are…
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Oscar Preview: Weekend of Dec. 25-27, 2015
We had two films release this past weekend (see note) with the potential for Oscar nominations. (NOTE: I screwed up last week. I posted my thoughts on the releases of Dec. 25-27, 2015 rather than Dec. 18-20, 2015. I’ve added a note to that post referencing the error. This post will, instead, focus on those…
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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). A smattering of stragglers have polished off their choices in the last week, but the critics section of…
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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). The critics awards deluge is now over with only a small handful left to announce. This means that…
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Oscar Preview: Weekend of Dec. 18-20, 2015
We had five films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. (NOTE: I realized as I was preparing the article for Dec. 25-27 that I inadvertently did that weekends releases here. As such, I’m doing the Dec. 18-20, 2015 releases during the Dec. 25-27 window instead.) Concussion Before this film unspooled, there…
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Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 3
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 bounty of awards have come out in the last week with the Screen Actors Guild, Golden Globe…
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Oscar Preview: Weekend of Dec. 11-13, 2015
We had three films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. In the Heart of the Sea There was a time when Ron Howard’s name meant a great deal towards a film’s success, specifically at the box office, and sometimes at the Oscars. However, after his last two films have been high…
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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). The flood of precursors has been with some of the big names in criticism weighing in with their…
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Oscar Preview: Weekend of Dec. 4-6, 2015
We had two films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Macbeth Harvey Weinstein picked this Shakespearean adaptation up starring Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard. In spite of strong advance press, the festival circuit wasn’t terribly impressed and the film has largely languished. It’s now getting dumped into the midst of Oscar…
