Category: Academy Awards
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10th Phoenix Critics Circle Nominations & Awards
Phoenix critics seemed to prefer Poor Things slightly more than Barbenheimer, though Oppenheimer came out on top with the most awards yet still lost the top race to a film with far fewer nominations, Past Lives. Nominations Tallies (8) Poor Things (7) Oppenheimer (6) Barbie, The Holdovers, Killers of the Flower Moon (5) The Zone…
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Oscar History: December 15 (2023)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.
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Oscar Profile: Christmas Movies Revisited
With a plethora of lame Christmas movies available on TV at this time of year, it’s rare to find one that compares favorably to the classics that were produced by Hollywood of old, most of which are still available on DVD and Blu-ray. While no film with Christmas as its main theme has ever won…
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Oscar History: December 14 (2023)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.
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29th Critics Choice Nominations
While it’s tempting to call these the Barbenheimer awards, It’s really the Barbie-plus awards. Barbie dominated with 18 nominations, though Oppenheimer, Poor Things, and Killers of the Flower Moon did quite well too. The Critics Choice tended to ignore foreign language films with Past Lives and Anatomy of a Fall the most recognized with only…
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The Contenders: November Retrospective/January Forecast
We’re looking at Oscar contenders as they release and trying to determine which films have potential and which have wasted it. Let’s look back at the month of November and see what films faltered. Then we’ll look forward to December and see what has some potential. Wesley Lovell’s Thoughts November Retrospective It’s difficult to discuss…
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Oscar History: December 13 (2023)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.
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36th Chicago Critics Awards
Chicago spread the love around, but gave its most significant prize to Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon. Award Tallies (3) Killers of the Flower Moon, May December, Oppenheimer (2) The Holdovers, Poor Things (1) Barbie, The Boy and the Heron, Godzilla, Minus One, Kokomo City, Past Lives, The Zone of Interest The Awards…
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27th Las Vegas Critics Nominations
Las Vegas’ critics aren’t very good at getting the word out (or updating their website). Here are the nominees for the Las Vegas critics’ awards, presumably announced on the 8th based on the sole article I found covering it. These are directly from the list on IMDb and there’s absolutely nothing shocking in them. Nominations…
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35th Producers Guild Documentary Nominations
The Producers Guild of America has announced the seven films that will compete for their award for Best Documentary. The list has a few notable omissions, the leading of which are Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie and Menus-Plaisirs- Les Troisgros, but also glaringly absent are The Eternal Memory and Kokomo City among several other…
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Oscar History: December 12 (2023)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.
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22nd DC Critics Awards
Although it won significantly more honors than American Fiction, Oppenheimer lost out on the top award, something that the film may need to get used to as the season progresses. Award Tallies (6) Oppenheimer (2) American Fiction, The Holdovers, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (1) American Symphony, Anatomy of a Fall, Barbie, Killers of the Flower…
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81st Golden Globe Nominations
Now that the Golden Globes is no longer run by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, they can now attempt to be as populist as possible. They’ve expanded all categories to six and have a far higher recognition rate for non-American features. That said, A lot of their selections are already Oscar contenders and with now…
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Box Office History (Week 49, 2023)
Every week, we’ll take a look back at how Oscar-nominated films performed at the box office. Due to the lack of data prior to 1980, some of these early years may have minimal information. From the mid-1990s back to 1980, the data exists, but is sometimes spotty. Everything after that should be accurate. We’ll look…
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Oscar History: December 11 (2023)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History.
