Category: Academy Awards
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Precursor: 84th New York Critics Awards (2018)
Roma, which had until now seemed to be an also-ran for Best Picture leaps back into the forefront of consideration with its award from the New York Film Critics Circle. Alfonso Cuaron black-and-white feature picked up three awards, including a rare Picture-Director victory suggesting support for the film was strong. Ethan Hawke gets a jolt…
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Precursor: 23rd Satellite Awards Nominations (2018)
Similar in structure and composition to the far more famous Golden Globes, the Satellite Awards have been around long enough to give us an idea of how prognosticative they can be. While their history of predicting the Oscars is mediocre, part of that can be attributed to their incredibly early announcements (preceding almost every other…
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Oscar Profile #420: Byron Forbes
Born July 26, 1926 in Stratford, England as John Theobald Clarke, actor-writer-producer-director Bryan Forbes was evacuated to Cornwall during World War II. In 1943, a neighbor who was a BBC producer put 17-year-old Clarke into BBC Radio’s The Will Hay Programme. He spent four years in the Intelligence Corps from 1944-1948. Upon completing his military…
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This Day in Oscar History: November 29 (2018)
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This Day in Oscar History: November 28 (2018)
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91st Oscars: Screener Watch, Week 2
The week was a bit slow, but some major films made their way to my inbox, whether it’s the box office smash Deadpool 2 or the prime Oscar contender At Etenrity’s Gate or indie hits You Were Never Really Here and Suspiria.
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Precursor: 90th National Board of Review Awards (2018)
Topping this year’s National Board of Review is Green Book, a film about a white bodyguard escorting a black pianist through the deep south. It won Best Picture and Best Actor for Viggo Mortensen. It was not, however, the most honored film. A Star Is Born managed to pick up three awards, for Lady Gaga,…
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This Day in Oscar History: November 27 (2018)
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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). This past week saw less movement than expected with only the Producers Guild of America documentary nominations. As…
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Oscar Preview: Weekend of Nov. 23-25, 2018
We had three films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Ralph Breaks the Internet When you look at the nominees and winners for Best Animated Feature, there are two facts that are irrefutable. One is that Disney/Pixar is responsible for the majority of nominees and a huge majority of the winners.…
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Precursor: 28th Gotham Awards (2018)
In the first awards of the season, the independent-minded voters of the Gotham Awards were given out and they were more independent-minded than the Independent Spirit Awards usually are, giving their top prize to a film that was contending last year for the Spirit Awards: The Rider. Award Tallies (2) Eighth Grade, First Reformed The…
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This Day in Oscar History: November 26 (2018)
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This Day in Oscar History: November 25 (2018)
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This Day in Oscar History: November 24 (2018)
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 47, 2018)
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…
