Category: Academy Awards
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Oscar History: December 16 (2025)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1896: Norbert Brodine (73 at death) {2 Noms, 0 Wins} Oscar Nominations: Cinematography, Cinematography (Black-and-White) 1898: Lud Gluskin (90 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Original Score 1899: Noel Coward (73 at death) {1 Nom, 1 Win} Oscar Nomination: Original Screenplay Oscar Win: Special/Honorary 1917:…
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Box Office History (Week 50, 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 15 (2025)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1888: Maxwell Anderson (70 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Writing 1893: Victor Milner (80 at death) {8 Noms, 1 Win} Oscar Nominations: Cinematography, Cinematography (Black-and-White), Cinematography (Color) Oscar Win: Cinematography 1906: Joe MacDonald (61 at death) {3 Noms, 0 Wins} Oscar Nominations: Cinematography (Black-and-White),…
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23rd San Francisco Critics Awards
Notch another win for One Battle After Another. Awards Tallies (5) One Battle After Another (3) Sinners (1) Blue Moon, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, It Was Just an Accident, KPop Demon Hunters, Orwell: 2+2=5, Sentimental Value, Twinless, Weapons The Awards Best Picture One Battle After Another Best Animated Feature KPop Demon Hunters…
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46th Boston Critics Awards
The first of the Old Guard critics groups to go elsewhere than One Battle After Another. Awards Tallies (4) Sinners (2) Blue Moon, Sentimental Value (1) Afternoons of Solitude, Endless Cookie, F1: The Movie, Good Boy, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, Marty Supreme, One Battle After Another, Sorry, Baby, Weapons The Awards Best…
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20th St. Louis Critics Awards
Another strong showing for One Battle After Another Awards Tallies (9) One Battle After Another (3) Weapons (2) Frankenstein, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, Sinners (1) Avatar: Fire and Ash, Hamnet, It Was Just an Accident, The Naked Gun, Orwell: 2+2=5, Sorry, Baby Train Dreams, Zootopia 2 The Awards Best Film One Battle After…
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Oscar History: December 14 (2025)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1913: Dan Dailey (64 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Actor 1935: Lee Remick (55 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Actress 1945: Hawk Koch (80) {0 Noms, 0 Wins} Academy President #34: 2012-13, 1 term 1945: Hawk Koch (80) {0 Noms, 0…
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Oscar History: December 13 (2025)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Our Site Milestones 2012: Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers (13) Born 1890: Marc Connelly (90 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Screenplay 1899: Sidney S. Brod (55 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Assistant Directing 1901: George R. Groves (74 at death) {8…
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30th San Diego Critics Nominations
Four of these five Best Picture leaders and five of the five nominations leaders, look to be entering guarantee territory. Nominations Tallies (12) Sinners (10) One Battle After Another (9) Hamnet (6) Frankenstein (5) Marty Supreme (4) It Was Just an Accident, Sentimental Value, Weapons (3) Bugonia, The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Hedda, Train Dreams…
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23rd San Francisco Critics Nominations
These five Best Picture nominees all seem likely to carry over to the Oscars. San Francisco will likely continue its trend of accuracy. Nominations Tallies (11) One Battle After Another (9) Sinners (8) Sentimental Value (7) Hamnet (5) Train Dreams (4) Frankenstein (3) Bugonia, It Was Just an Accident (2) Marty Supreme, No Other Choice,…
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12th Phoenix Critics Circle Awards
Notch another win for One Battle After Another. Awards Tallies (6) One Battle After Another (1) Frankenstein, Hamnet, KPop Demon Hunters, Marty Supreme, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, The Naked Gun, The Perfect Neighbor, Sentimental Value, Sinners, Weapons The Awards Best Picture One Battle After Another Best Animated Film KPop Demon Hunters Best Director…
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38th Chicago Critics Awards
Chicago confirms One Battle After Another is in the pole position. Awards Tallies (9) One Battle After Another (2) Frankenstein, It Was Just an Accident (1) If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, KPop Demon Hunters, Marty Supreme, The Perfect Neighbor, Sinnersorry, Baby The Awards Best Picture One Battle After Another Best Animated Film KPop…
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9th Hollywood Creative Alliance Creative Awards
The early results share one thing in common: there’s very little out of the ordinary in them. Note: It doesn’t appear they awarded the Original Score or Original Song categories. These may have been unexpectedly moved to the main awards. Awards Tallies (3) Frankenstein, Sinners (2) Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, One Battle After…
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28th Costume Designers Guild Nominations
A few unexpected choices but for the most part, the major contenders are all here. I imagine the Sci-Fi category is a done deal but the other two categories are going to be tough to predict. The Nominations Best Period Costume Design Downton Abbey: The Grand Vinale Frankenstein Hamnet Hedda Sinners Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy Costume Design…
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The Contenders 25/26: November Retrospective/January Forecast
We’re looking at Oscar contenders as they release and trying to determine which films have potential and which have wasted it. Let’s look back at the month of November and see what films succeeded and faltered. Then we’ll look forward to January and see what has some potential. Wesley Lovell’s Thoughts November Retrospective Quite a…
