Category: Academy Awards
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Oscar Preview: Weekend of Nov. 29-Dec. 1, 2019
We had two films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. The Two Popes Fernando Meirelles has made nine films with two of them being Oscar nominees. The Two Popes is his third attempt at scoring Oscar nominations, his first attempt since 2008’s Blindness, which failed to move the Oscar needle The…
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Precursor: 4th Atlanta Critics Awards (2019)
How the Atlanta film critics have become the first of the minor critics to announce is anyone’s guess, but here they are hot on the heels of the other early newbies the Hollywood Critics Association. Unlike the HCA, Atlanta seems to have an eye on influencing the Oscars with a lot of daring choices. Parasite…
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Precursor: 19th AARP Movies for Grownups Nominations (2019)
Not exactly known for their Oscar forecasting, the AARP Movies for Grownups nominations nevertheless feature all of the major players, at least the ones eligible for their AARP card. Matter of fact, most of the older contenders are here with the exception of Ian McKellen, Willem Dafoe, and maybe a few others. There’s not a…
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Precursor: 28th Annie Awards Nominations (2019)
A couple of noteworthy/surprising things happened in this year’s Annie Awards nominations and a couple of the surprises aren’t a good sign. Let’s start with what we expected. Frozen II was sure to clean up here and Toy Story 4 was also supposed to do well and they did. How to Train Your Dragon: The…
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Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 2
As the precursor awards continue unabated until Oscar night, I’m going to be providing a weekly update highlighting the films that have won and lost momentum through the precursor awards (and in some cases other outside influences). With a handful of the potential precursors that could have announced this week not present, the only one…
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92nd Oscars: Screener Watch – Week 6
The week of Thanksgiving started out really slow, but the Friday after and Saturday say an uptick in receipts. Here’s what we have…things started off with Fox Searchlight as the only title received prior to Thursday. After that, we got two separate packages for Amazon, a soundtrack from United Artists, then two different packages from…
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This Day in Oscar History: December 2 (2019)
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This Day in Oscar History: December 1 (2019)
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This Day in Oscar History: November 30 (2019)
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 48, 2019)
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 29 (2019)
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Oscar Profile #472: Thanksgiving Revisited
If this seems familiar, it’s because it’s basically a reprint of last year’s Thanksgiving article. 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 and Fred Astaire is in fact a celebration of all of the U.S. holidays. We have…
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This Day in Oscar History: November 28 (2019)
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This Day in Oscar History: November 27 (2019)
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This Day in Oscar History: November 26 (2019)
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