Category: Academy Awards
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This Day in Oscar History: December 29 (2020)
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Precursor: 9th North Carolina Critics Nominations (2020)
Giving traction to Da 5 Bloods and Minari, North Carolina’s film critics have helped deliver some variety to the awards season, even if only a touch of it. Nominations Tallies (7) Da 5 Bloods (6) Nomadland (5) Mank, Minari (4) Promising Young Woman (3) I’m Thinking of Ending Things, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Tenet, The…
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Precursor: 5th Chicago Independent Critics Nominations (2020)
I’m not sure how much trust you can put in a group that makes Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey a 4th place finisher (in a tie with Nomadland and Da 5 Bloods) in the nominations count, but you have to respect their gumption. It’s a solid list hitting on many of the current contenders and…
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Oscar Preview: Weekend of Dec. 25-27, 2020
We had four films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. News of the World Having only directed ten feature films including his 1989 big screen debut, Paul Greengrass hasn’t had much interaction with the Oscars. To date, only three of his films have scored Oscar nominations. His first was United 93…
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This Day in Oscar History: December 28 (2020)
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This Day in Oscar History: December 27 (2020)
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This Day in Oscar History: December 26 (2020)
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Oscar in Box Office History (Weeks 52 & 53, 2020)
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: December 25 (2020)
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Oscar Profile #528: Frank Capra Revisited
Born Francisco Rosario Capra on May 18, 1897 in Bisacquino, Sicily and raised in Los Angeles from the age of six, the future President of both AMPAS (the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences) and the DGA (Directors Guild of America) would become a naturalized American citizen in 1920 at which time he legally…
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This Day in Oscar History: December 24 (2020)
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This Day in Oscar History: December 23 (2020)
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This Day in Oscar History: December 22 (2020)
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Precursor: 12th Indiana Critics Awards (2020)
Looking more like followers than leaders, the noticeable absence of Promising Young Woman seems strange, especially with some of the titles they chose to include instead. Awards Tallies (4) Nomadland (2) Da 5 Bloods The Awards
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Precursor: 33rd Chicago Critics Awards (2020)
Nomadland emerged the big winner for this year’s Chicago Film Critics Awards, taking a supreme 5 awards with nearest competitor Never Rarely Sometimes Always only claiming 2. Award Tallies (5) Nomadland (2) Never Rarely Sometimes Always The Awards
