Category: Academy Awards
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This Day in Oscar History: November 13 (2019)
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92nd Oscars: Documentary Feature Submissions
The Academy has announced the 159 documentary features that were submitted for Oscar consideration. It’s a lot to parse and knowing just which films will make the final list is almost impossible at this point. We’ll look to the shortlists to be announced in the next month to define the race. 159 DOCUMENTARY FEATURES SUBMITTED…
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This Day in Oscar History: November 12 (2019)
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Precursor: 11th Make-Up Artists Guild Nominations (2019)
The big surprise of these nominations is the triple nomination for Bombshell, a film that never seemed like the kind of film to earn nominations from this group. The Irishman is also surprising considering the de-aging technology used on that film, which will likely make it Oscar-ineligible. Rocketman is certainly no surprise and Joker also…
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Oscar Preview: Weekend of Nov. 8-10, 2019
We had one film release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Midway It’s clear from Roland Emmerich’s post-2012 resume that he’s extremely interested in making an Oscar-caliber film. Stephen Spielberg did it. James Cameron did it. Ridley Scott did it. Why not him? Films like Anonymous, Stonewall, and now Midway are 50%…
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92nd Oscars: Screener Watch – Week 3
This week saw several packages including content from Laika, DreamWorks Animation, A24, and Universal. Missing Link Oscar Chances: Uncertain: Laika is the only animation studio that has a 100% success rate in earning Oscar nominations. It hasn’t won yet. This film will test that studio’s strengths. It had solid, but unexceptional reviews and was far…
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This Day in Oscar History: November 11 (2019)
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Precursor: 45th People’s Choice Awards (2019)
While the People’s Choice Awards have never been the bastions of taste, they have always had a popular streak. That popularity was reserved for the biggest movies of the year; however, over the years, the organization seems to be attracting fewer and fewer mainstream audience voters and more and more younger voters. While Avengers: Endgame…
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Precursor: 4th Critics Choice Documentary Awards (2019)
Ever since the Broadcast Film Critics Association split their documentary awards off from their main awards ceremony, they’ve been able to recognize far more documentaries than previously. This gives us a broad idea of which documentaries are in contention for the Oscars and a lot of selections that aren’t. Titles like They Shall Not Grow…
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This Day in Oscar History: November 10 (2019)
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Precursor: 32nd European Film Awards Nominations (2019)
One of the foremost awards in Europe, the European Film Awards are not a precursor we’ve covered previously as their influence was minimal. However, in order to expand to cover more types of industry awards, we’re presenting a wider variety of group nominations. The European Film Awards have different eligibility requirements, which explains why 2018…
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This Day in Oscar History: November 9 (2019)
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 45, 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. All data is collected from Box Office Mojo. The first section under each year is the positioning of all Oscar nominees during that weekend at the…
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This Day in Oscar History: November 8 (2019)
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Oscar Profile #469: James Cromwell
Born January 27, 1940 in Los Angeles, CA and raised in Manhattan, New York, James Cromwell is the son of actress Kay Johnson (Madam Satan) and actor-director John Cromwell (Since You Went Away). His parents divorced in 1946 the year the senior Cromwell married actress Ruth Nelson (Wilson). The younger Cromwell studied acting at Carnegie-Mellon…
