Category: Academy Awards
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Precursor: 31st Gotham Awards (2021)
The Gotham Awards don’t have a lot of influencing power over the Oscars, but their choices can shine a light on the films that are at least under consideration for Oscar nominations. With their wins here, both The Lost Daughter and CODA have strong claims to being competitors. I imagine The Lost Daughter has more…
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94th Oscar Preview: Precursors Beginning This Week
Precursor season begins in earnest this week with the National Board of Review kicking things off tomorrow. As is our custom, we’ll begin looking at the winners and losers next week, but this week, let’s take a look at some anniversaries this year as well as what’s coming out this week. Week 1 Tuesday, Nov.…
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Oscar Preview: Weekend of Nov. 26-28, 2021
We had four films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Encanto Disney and Pixar have been trading off major Oscar contenders for years now. This year, the studios have three total efforts to go into Oscar season with and all three are original properties, meaning all three have a solid chance…
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This Day in Oscar History: November 29 (2021)
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This Day in Oscar History: November 28 (2021)
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This Day in Oscar History: November 27 (2021)
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 48, 2021)
Every week, we’ll take a look back in 5-year intervals at the box office past to explore how Oscar’s nominees were doing at the box office each weekend historically. The first section under each year is the positioning of all Oscar nominees during that weekend at the box office (as well as a section looking…
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This Day in Oscar History: November 26 (2021)
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Oscar Profile #575: Thanksgiving 2021
For the first time in years there is a new film about Thanksgiving on screens in celebration of the holiday, the film version of the 2016 Tony award-winning play, The Humans. Holidays have been celebrated in films since their inception. There have been films about virtually all of them, 1942’s Holiday Inn with Bing Crosby…
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This Day in Oscar History: November 25 (2021)
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This Day in Oscar History: November 24 (2021)
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Precursor: 64th Grammy Award Nominations (2021)
With the oddly formed eligibility window, the Grammy Awards often have little bearing on Oscar considerations, since they mostly go with prior year winners rather than future contenders. Still, compared to last year’s slate, this year’s is surprisingly heavy with 2021 Oscar-eligible films. There are four of six in the compilation soundtrack category, which has…
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This Day in Oscar History: November 23 (2021)
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Oscar Preview: Weekend of Nov. 19-21, 2021
We had three films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Ghostbusters: Afterlife With their fourth Ghostbusters feature, this is a film that had a lot of hopes riding on it. Some of the original film’s fans were incensed by the idea of the franchise being hijacked by women with 2016’s all-female…
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This Day in Oscar History: November 22 (2021)
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