Category: Academy Awards
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Precursor: 12th Indiana Critics Nominations (2020)
This large list of nominations is not like what many others put together, thus it’s difficult to draw many conclusions, though they really loved three films, giving them double-digit citations. Nominations Tallies (11) I’m Thinking of Ending Things (10) Minari, One Night in Miami (7) Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Promising Young Woman, Soul (6) First…
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This Day in Oscar History: December 15 (2020)
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Oscar Preview: Weekend of Dec. 11-13, 2020
We had no films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations.
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This Day in Oscar History: December 14 (2020)
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Precursor: 41st Boston Critics Awards (2020)
The 2020 film slate was dominated by Netflix, which was already stingy on their theatrical releases, yet they were largely ignored by the first major film critics organization to announce. Boston selected only three of their films to recognize. Mank was left out of all but one runner-up citation while Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom secured…
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This Day in Oscar History: December 13 (2020)
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This Day in Oscar History: December 12 (2020)
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 50, 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 11 (2020)
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Oscar Profile #526: Lionel Barrymore
Born April 28, 1878 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Lionel Herbert Blythe was the oldest of three children of actors Maurice Barrymore and Ellen Drew Barrymore, Barrymore being the stage name that Lionel and his siblings, Ethel, and John, also took. The most prolific of the acting Barrymores, Lionel made his stage debut in a 1903 Kansas…
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This Day in Oscar History: December 10 (2020)
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This Day in Oscar History: December 9 (2020)
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Oscars Production Team Announced
JESSE COLLINS, STACEY SHER AND STEVEN SODERBERGH TO PRODUCE THE 93RD OSCARS® LOS ANGELES, CA – Emmy®-nominated producer Jesse Collins, Oscar®-nominated producer Stacey Sher and Oscar-winning filmmaker Steven Soderbergh will produce the 93rd Oscars®, Academy President David Rubin announced today. It will be their first involvement with the Oscars, which airs live on ABC and…
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This Day in Oscar History: December 8 (2020)
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Oscar Preview: Weekend of Dec. 4-6, 2020
We had one film release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Nomadland Director Chloe Zhao’s meditation on wanderlust homelessness follows Frances McDormand on her American walkabout, exploring the American Midwest and it’s almost forgotten struggles. The film enters this year’s Oscar race after a successful fall festival run that included the Golden…
