Category: Oscar Preview
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Oscar Preview: Weekend of Feb. 13-15, 2015
We had no films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations.
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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 are only two more precursor weeks to go and the biggies are already done. Yet, we still…
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Oscar Preview: Weekend of Feb. 6-8, 2015
We had no films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations.
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Oscar Preview: Weekend of Jan. 30-Feb. 1, 2015
We had one film release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Timbuktu Mauritania’s first submission to the Academy Awards was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film. Not many nations can claim that feat. It helps that director Abderrahmane Sissako has built a reputation in cinema for his appreciation for and application of…
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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). After last week’s lull in precursors with only a smattering of events, this week is a much bigger…
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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). Apologies first to failing to get this posted yesterday when I had intended. However, today is just as…
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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). Now that the Oscar nominations have been announced, things will be slow for a week before ramping up…
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Oscar Preview: Weekend of Jan. 16-18, 2015
We had one films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Apparently, I wrote my article on Still Alice a week early. So, I guess there’s no standard update today. If you want to read what I wrote last week, you can click here. Instead, I’m posting this in the place of…
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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). This article was delayed due to the Golden Globe Awards and includes thoughts on those winners and losers.…
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Oscar Preview: Weekend of Jan. 9-11, 2015
We had one film release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. NOTE: Because I didn’t get any films watched this weekend and the Golden Globes have made alterations to my normal Oscar Preview weekly wrap-up article, I’m posting this one early and will post the article that should have gone live yesterday…
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Oscar Preview: Weekend of Jan. 2-4, 2014
We had one film release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. A Most Violent Year While this is the last full official release of 2014, there are a few films that did qualifying runs, but which have not opened in full limited release. J.C. Chandor’s third feature film puts Oscar Isaac, who…
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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). While the last couple of weeks have been literally or virtually dead, this week’s rush of guild nominations…
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Oscar Preview: Weekend of Dec. 26-28, 2014
We had eight films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Big Eyes Once upon a time, Tim Burton was a wunderkind, a film director with great potential and an even greater fanbase. However, as the years have drifted by, Burton’s enthusiasts have dwindled in number with one creative and critical drubbing…
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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). With a small number of critics groups still to announce, this week we move into the real nitty…
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Oscar Preview: Weekend of Dec. 19-21, 2014
We had four films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Annie When it was announced that young Oscar nominee Quevenzhane Wallis would star in a remake of popular musical Annie, some greeted the news with satisfaction that race roles would be reversed for the productions. Meanwhile, those of us who weren’t…
