Category: Academy Awards
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The Rundown 2018: Documentary (Feature & Short)
For our first Rundown article this year, we look at the categories that are based entirely in fact. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Documentary Feature and Documentary Short Subject as well as general commentary about the race. Tuesday, we’ll cover a category that can help set the mood,…
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This Day in Oscar History: January 28 (2019)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died
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Precursor: 25th Screen Actors Guild Awards (2018)
The Screen Actors Guild awards are happening now. I’ll update as the winners are announced, including the graphic and the tallies. In the interim, our team’s predictions will be included below so you can see what everyone thought might happen tonight. I’ll also consider writing a play-by-play of each winner and what it means to…
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This Day in Oscar History: January 27 (2019)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released Oscar Nominations
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Precursor: 3rd Chicago Independent Critics Nominations (2018)
In many ways, this list is better than the Oscar nominations, though it’s imperfect with people like Melissa McCarthy unfairly overlooked. Nominations Tallies (11) Black Panther (9) The Favourite, Roma (8) First Man (6) If Beale Street Could Talk, A Star Is Born (5) Vice (4) Annihilation, BlacKkKlansman (3) Eighth Grade, First Reformed, Hereditary, Widows…
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This Day in Oscar History: January 26 (2019)
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 4, 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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2018 Precursor Predictions: Screen Actors Guild
With nary a consensus heading into Oscar voting, it will be interesting to see what SAG voters pick since actors makeup the largest portion of the Academy’s membership. Of course SAG also has AFTRA mixed in, which means a lot of television voters. While the massive SAG-AFTRA organization dwarfs the Academy, there’s no question there’s…
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This Day in Oscar History: January 25 (2019)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released Oscar Nominations
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Oscar Profile #428: Willem Dafoe Revisited
Born July 22, 1955 in Appleton, Wisconsin, William J, Dafoe was one of eight children whose parents were a surgeon and a nurse who worked together constantly, leaving the future actor to be raised by his five older sisters. He became known as “Willem”, the Dutch name for “William”, while in high school. Dafoe studied…
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This Day in Oscar History: January 24 (2019)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released Oscar Nominations
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2018 Oscar Winner Predictions: Post-Nominations
After a rather unusual nominations announcement this morning, our contributors have come together to put out this first post-nominations predictions set. We have very little agreement here and that’s interesting. As to how we performed on the nominations, here are our results. Thomas La Tourrette topped the list with 95 correct predictions. Wesley Lovell came…
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This Day in Oscar History: January 23 (2019)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released Oscar Nominations
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91st Oscar Nominations
The nominations have been announced with numerous surprises throughout. Things started out with a surprise with the nomination of Marina de Tavira in Supporting Actress over Claire Foy, showcasing not only First Man‘s ultimate collapse and Roma‘s dominance. The only place Roma didn’t show up was Film Editing, giving it a tough path to the…
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This Day in Oscar History: January 22 (2019)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Our Site Milestones Born Died Released Oscar Nominations Our Site Milestones 2010: The Oscar Guy Became Cinema Sight (9)
