Category: Academy Awards
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This Day in Oscar History: November 23 (2018)
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Oscar Profile #419: Thanksgiving Day Movies
Holidays have been celebrated in films since their inception. There have been films about virtually all of them. 1942’s Holiday Inn with Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire is in fact a celebration of all of the U.S. holidays. We have had films that celebrate those we honor on their birthdays – George Washington (1942’s George…
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This Day in Oscar History: November 22 (2018)
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This Day in Oscar History: November 21 (2018)
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Precursor: 30th PGA Documentary Nominations (2018)
The Documentary Feature nominations take mild inspiration from the choices of the Producers Guild of America. Their choices for best produced documentary of the year often feature sure Oscar contenders, sure snubs, and titles that were never likely to appear. Which of these will make the cut? RBG, Three Identical Strangers, and Won’t You Be…
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91st Oscars: Screener Watch
Instead of posting every time I receive a screener, I’m going to try and post once a week (starting now) a list of all screeners I receive during the prior week. Below is everything I’ve received to date.
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This Day in Oscar History: November 20 (2018)
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Oscar Preview: Weekend of Nov. 16-18, 2018
We had four films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Widows With only three prior films under his belt, acclaimed director Steve McQueen is one artist who Hollywood needs to take more seriously. Although he earned several nominations for his film 12 Years a Slave, he wasn’t honored for Best Directing…
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Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 1
As the precursor awards begin, 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 week only featured one precursor, but it’s among the first and last awarded. It’s awards are always held the night before…
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This Day in Oscar History: November 19 (2018)
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This Day in Oscar History: November 18 (2018)
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This Day in Oscar History: November 17 (2018)
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Precursor: 34th Spirit Awards Nominations (2018)
You can always see from the nominations what films were eligible and are head-scratchingly omitted. Take for example that BlacKkKlansman was nominated for Best Supporting Male (Adam Driver), but nowhere else. That could spell trouble for Oscar. The same is true of the mediocre support for Can You Ever Forgive Me?, which picked up a…
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 46, 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…
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This Day in Oscar History: November 16 (2018)
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