Category: Academy Awards
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Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 10
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). The last of the guilds and other major nominating groups were announced this last week with a smattering…
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Oscar Morning: The Article (2018)
FOR AN OSCAR MORNING TRACKING SHEET, CLICK HERE. My predictions are in BOLD. It’s hard to know precisely how the Academy will handle this year’s announcements. We have the list of categories that will be announced in which grouping, we have where they will be announcing the nominations, and we have who will be announcing.…
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2018 Oscar Nominations Predictions: Final
As is our tradition, May begins our first predictive look at the year’s Oscar hopefuls. A lot of factors will play into how well our guesses hold up. Expect many of them to fall by the wayside as the year progresses and new contenders to rise into their places. Tomorrow morning, the Academy of Motion…
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This Day in Oscar History: January 21 (2019)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Precursor: 39th Golden Raspberry Nominations (2018)
Always ones to go for the low-hanging fruit, the Golden Raspberry Awards, colloquially referred to as the Razzies, have announced their selections for the worst of the year, with three of the five Worst Picture nominees earning 6 nominations apiece while a fourth film, not nominated in that character, also picked up six. The dishonorable…
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Precursor: 39th London Critics Awards (2018)
The final film critic group to announce this year is London with its unusual rules for eligibility built around U.S. vs. U.K. release dates. Roma won the Best Picture award while The Favourite went home with more wins, including Best British / Irish Film. Otherwise, there isn’t much to see here. Award Tallies (4) The…
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Precursor: 23rd Online Film & Television Nominations (2018)
A plethora of strong choices, many of them commonplace this awards season, came out of the Online Film & Television Association. Black Panther was the nominations leader with fourteen followed closely by The Favourite, A Star Is Born, and First Man. Several of they year’s prominent contenders didn’t quite make it to the final nominations,…
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This Day in Oscar History: January 20 (2019)
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Precursor: 30th Producers Guild Awards (2018)
Showing that Roma doesn’t have dibs on Best Picture, the Producers Guild of America went with the safe, easy choice of Green Book, avoiding controversy in selecting most of the other films and forgetting that we’re in the 2018 and not 1989. Their other two selections are as expected. The Awards Best Picture Green Book…
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This Day in Oscar History: January 19 (2019)
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Precursor: 66th Sound Editors Guild Nominations (2018)
Although they were expected to announce their nominations the day before the Oscars, the Motion Picture Sound Editors have given out their 2018 nominations. While they have numerous categories, the two you most need to pay attention are the Sound Effects and Foley and the Dialogue and ADR categories. Oftentimes, the most nominated are also…
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 3, 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: Producers Guild of America
The first of the guilds to present their annual awards might give us a glimpse into the Oscar race. Although Oscar voting is now over, it won’t have an influence on the nominations, but could have an outsized influence on the winners considering how tight the Best Picture race is this year. PRODUCERS GUILD OF…
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This Day in Oscar History: January 18 (2019)
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91st Oscars: Live Announcement Information
The Academy has announced that they will be livestreaming the nominations Tuesday morning. They’ve included the broadcast times for Pacific, Eastern, Greenwich and China time zones. Adding two more from the US: 6:20 a.m. Mountain and 7:20 a.m. Central. 91st Oscars® Nominations Announcement Tuesday, January 22, 2019 5:20 a.m. PST/8:20 a.m. EST/1:20 p.m. GMT/9:20 p.m.…
