Category: Academy Awards
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Oscar History: January 3 (2026)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1877: Josephine Hull (80 at death) {1 Nom, 1 Win} Oscar Nomination: Supporting Actress Oscar Win: Supporting Actress 1889: Robert M. Haas (73 at death) {2 Noms, 0 Wins} Oscar Nominations: Art Direction/Production Design (Black-and-White), Art Direction/Production Design (Color) 1898: Frederic Efrem Erich (58 at death) {2…
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Predictions: Critics Choice Awards
The first televised awards show of the year comes a bit too early in the season to have much impact. CRITICS CHOICE AWARDS Legend: Winner Predictions: Wesley Lovell Pete Patrick Thomas LaTourrette Runner-Up Predictions: Wesley Lovell Pete Patrick Thomas LaTourrette Wesley Lovell: When a group this large votes, they tend to vote to support trends…
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Oscar History: January 2 (2026)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Our Site Milestones 2012: Cinema Sight: Polls: Most Anticipated (13) Born 1893: Ernst Marischka (70 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Motion Picture Story 1911: Jack Martin Smith (82 at death) {9 Noms, 3 Wins} Oscar Nominations: Art Direction/Production Design, Art Direction/Production Design (Black-and-White), Art Direction/Production…
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Calendar Preview: January 2026
Precursors to the Academy Awards come in many different forms and they can appear all year from festivals and national awards to critics groups and other organizations. Here’s what’s coming up this month. JANUARY Festivals Thursday, Jan. 22 – Sundance Film Festival (Festival) (Official) Nominations Thursday, Jan. 1 – Casting Society (Nominations) (Unconfirmed) Monday, Jan.…
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Oscar Profile: Ethan Hawke Revisited
Born November 6, 1970 in Austin, Texas, Ethan Hawke has been actor since the age of 13. He is a great-grandnephew of Tennessee Williams on his father’s side. His maternal grandfather, Howard Lemuel Green, served five terms in the Texas Legislature and was a minor-league baseball commissioner. Hawke made his stage debut in a school…
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Oscar History: January 1 (2026)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1887: Herman Rossse (78 at death) {1 Nom, 1 Win} Oscar Nomination: Art Direction/Production Design Oscar Win: Art Direction/Production Design 1887: Joseph T. Rucker (70 at death) {1 Nom, 1 Win} Oscar Nomination: Cinematography Oscar Win: Cinematography 1891: Boris Morros (72 at death) {3 Noms, 0 Wins}…
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Oscar History: December 31 (2025)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1896: Philip Stevenson (68 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Screenplay 1897: Frank Skinner (70 at death) {5 Noms, 0 Wins} Oscar Nominations: Original Score, Scoring, Drama Score, Drama/Comedy Score 1897: Orry-Kelly (66 at death) {4 Noms, 3 Wins} Oscar Nominations: Costume Design, Costume Design…
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Box Office History (Week 53, 2025)
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 30 (2025)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Our Site Milestones 2011: Cinema Sight: Friday Face-Off (14) 2023: Awards Landscape Launches (2) 2023: Awards Landscape: Contenders (2) Born 1897: Lawrence Weingarten (77 at death) {1 Nom, 1 Win} Oscar Nomination: Picture Oscar Win: Irving G. Thalberg Award 1901: Henry Blanke (79 at death) {1 Nom, 0…
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17th North Texas Critics Awards
A big day for Sinners and not much else. Awards Tallies (6) Sinners (1) Hamnet, It Was Just an Accident, KPop Demon Hunters, Marty Supreme, One Battle After Another, Orwell: 2+2=5, Weapons The Awards Best Picture Sinners Best Animated Film KPop Demon Hunters Best Director Ryan Coogler – Sinners Best Actor Timothée Chalamet – Marty…
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Box Office History (Week 52, 2025)
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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6th Make-Up Artists Guild Nominations
No weird period/contemporary overlaps this time but there are a surprising 5 films that picked up all three crucial nominations for Oscar consideration. One of those five, Weapons, wasn’t on the Academy’s short list so you can probably take the four remaining and predict they are going to be the Oscar nominees. For the fifth…
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Oscar History: December 29 (2025)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1888: John Sturtevant (80 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Art Direction/Production Design (Color) 1891: Alfred Gilks (78 at death) {1 Nom, 1 Win} Oscar Nomination: Cinematography (Color) Oscar Win: Cinematography (Color) 1900: C. C. Coleman Jr. (71 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar…
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22nd Women Critics Awards
An always interesting but never foreshadowy list of selections. What’s always interesting is to see just how many of these titles end up on the Oscars list. Award Tallies (3) Hamnet, Sinners (1) Blue Moon, Eleanor the Great, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, KPop Demon Hunters, Left-Handed Girl, My Mom Jayne: A Film…
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17th North Texas Critics Nominations
These look mostly like all the others. Nominations Tallies (11) One Battle After Another (9) Sinners (8) Hamnet, Sentimental Value (4) Marty Supreme (3) Weapons (2) Bugonia, Frankenstein, It Was Just an Accident, Wicked: For Good (1) 2000 Meters to Andriivka, 28 Years Later, The Alabama Solution, Arco, Blue Moon, Deaf President Now, If I…
