Category: Oscar Preview

We had one film release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. How to Train Your Dragon 2 In spite of being DreamWorks’ crowning achievement, the original How to Train Your Dragon had the misfortune of opening against Oscar juggernaut Toy Story 3 back in 2010. With Pixar out of the way, the…

We had one film release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Edge of Tomorrow This is the classic example of a Summer blockbuster whose originality might mean the difference between being ignored by Oscar and embraced by it. The problem is that the year has been so stuffed full of visual effects…

We had one film release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Maleficent Walt Disney company has struggled in recent years to make inroads with the Academy. Just last year, they had what seemed to be the perfect Oscar bait movie in Saving Mr. Banks. That film was thought to be a prime…

We had two films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. X-Men: Days of Future Past As much trouble as the Avengers set of Marvel films have had earning Oscar nominations (only the Iron Man franchise and The Avengers movie itself have gotten any Oscar nominations), the X-Men franchise has had worse…

We had two films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Godzilla The classic disaster film was once a mainstay of the technicians in the Academy. Films from Earthquake to The Towering Inferno to Independence Day, the destruction of vast cityscapes frequently leads to recognition. In the last few years, that tendency…

We had no films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations.

We had two films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 The original trilogy did decently well with the Oscars. The first received two Oscar nominations. The third picked up three and even won the award for Best Visual Effects. Starting with the third film, Spider-Man stopped being…

We had one film release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Locke Screenwriter Steven Knight, who received an Oscar nomination for his screenplay for Dirty Pretty Things and whose Eastern Promises screenplay helped lead to an Oscar nomination for Viggo Mortensen has made his second feature as a director and it’s possible…

We had no films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations.

We had one film release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Rio 2 When the original film was released 3 years ago, we believed it had a long shot nomination at Best Animated Feature, but on Oscar nomination morning, it came away with one Oscar nomination and it wasn’t where we expected…

We had two films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Captain America: The Winter Soldier When is a film franchise not an Oscar contender? When it doesn’t star Robert Downey Jr. That may change this year when the sole Avengers-associated superhero movie makes a play for several Oscar nominations. It’s rather…

We had two films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Cesar Chavez One trailer made this seem like a defining film in the history of American Hispanic cinema. However, critics were not as enthused with the film as might have been expected. That alone may keep it out of the Oscar…

We had one film release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. (NOTE: This post is going live in the normal “The Morning After” slot. The Morning After article has been delayed to the afternoon posting.) Muppets Most Wanted A dismal week at the box office surely won’t help the latest incarnation of…

We had no films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations.

We had two films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Mr. Peabody & Sherman Never count out DreamWorks, even when their film isn’t a box office juggernaut. This weekend proved that even with mixed reviews, computer animated giants like DreamWorks aren’t immune to box office foibles. The film may not have…