Category: Academy Awards
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Precursor: 16th Austin Critics Awards (2020)
It really seems like the later in the season awards groups are giving prizes, the more frequently they are ignoring season leader Nomadland. Is it a concerted effort or just happenstance? Awards Tallies (6) Minari (3) Nomadland (2) The Invisible Man, Promising Young Woman The Awards
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 12, 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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2020 Precursor Predictions: Writers Guild of America
With the frontrunner for Best Adapted Screenplay at the Oscars ineligible for this award, we’ll be left with the winner of the Original Screenplay prize to tell us if there’s going to be a clean sweep or a knock-down, drag-out fight between The Trial of the Chicago 7 and Promising Young Woman. WRITERS GUILD OF…
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This Day in Oscar History: March 19 (2021)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Precursor: 7th Phoenix Critics Circle Awards (2020)
An obvious love of Minari doesn’t translate into a large number of awards with most films going home with a single award. Awards Tallies (3) Minari (2) Soul The Awards
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Oscar Profile #540: Fay Wray
Born September 15, 1907 in Alberta Canada to Mormon parents, Fay Wray was one of six children who moved to Salt Lake City, Utah with their parents in 1912, relocating to Los Angeles in 1919 where the aspiring actress attended famed Hollywood High. Wray made her film debut at 16 in the 1923 short, Gasoline…
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This Day in Oscar History: March 18 (2021)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released Our Site Milestones 2002: The Oscar Guy Launched oscarguy.com Domain (19)
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This Day in Oscar History: March 17 (2021)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Precursor: 36th Spirit Award Grant Winners (2020)
Film Independent always announces its grant winners prior to the awards. Below are the winners. The Awards Producers Award Gerry Kim Someone to Watch Award Ekwa Msangi Truer Than Fiction Award Elegance Bratton Spirit Awards Data First Awards: 1985 (36)
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This Day in Oscar History: March 16 (2021)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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2020 Oscar Nominations Predictions: Our Statistics
Based on our nominations predictions, here’s how we did. Once again, it was an incredibly close competition. 1 correct prediction separated first and second place. This year, Thomas La Tourrette came out on top with 89 correct predictions, just 1 more than Wesley Lovell. Tripp was third with 81 correct predictions and Peter J. Patrick…
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2020 Oscar Winner Predictions: Post-Nominations
Now that the Oscar nominations have been announced, it’s time to get to guessing on the winners. Our contributors’ performances in this year’s nominations will be reviewed and posted hopefully this evening. (This has been updated with Thomas’ predictions)
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Oscar Preview: Weekend of Mar. 12-14, 2021
It seems appropriate that on the morning the Oscar nominations are announced that we have this feature with no films releasing this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations.
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93rd Oscar Nominations
Only Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, Judas and the Black Messiah, and Sound of Metal managed to overperform expectations while nearly ever other Best Picture contender managed to underperform. We have history in Directing where we have two women nominated for the first time in history. Further, respected filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg popped up in Directing pushing out…
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This Day in Oscar History: March 15 (2021)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
