Category: Academy Awards
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Oscar History: December 8 (2025)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1886: Gerard Carbonara (72 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Drama/Comedy Score 1896: Bryan Foy (80 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Documentary Feature 1900: Irene (61 at death) {2 Noms, 0 Wins} Oscar Nominations: Costume Design (Black-and-White), Costume Design (Color) 1906: Daniel…
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29th Toronto Critics Awards
Toronto’s critics are often odd but they’ve gone fairly mainstream with this batch. Awards Tallies (4) One Battle After Another (2) Blue Heron, Endless Cookie (1) Blue Moon, Come See Me in the Good Light, Ghosts of the Sea, Hedda, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, Montreal, My Beautiful, Nirvanna the Band the Show…
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51st Los Angeles Critics Awards
Los Angeles critics have given the third of the four major critics groups awards to One Battle After Another. The rest of the choices seem fairly well in line with the current wisdom. Awards Tallies (3) One Battle After Another (1) Afternoons of Solitude, Blue Moon, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, It Was…
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24th DC Critics Awards
DC critics are the first to really diverge from the One Battle After Another bandwagon but are otherwise falling in line with most other groups. Awards Tallies (9) Sinners (3) One Battle After Another (2) KPop Demon Hunters (1) A House of Dynamite, Avatar: Fire and Ash, F1, Hamnet, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning,…
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24th DC Critics Nominations
DC critics have a decent track record and their selections are interesting with most of the major Oscar contenders represented and few genuine surprises. Nominations Tallies (13) One Battle After Another (12) Sinners (9) Hamnet (8) Marty Supreme (7) Sentimental Value (5) Avatar: Fire and Ash, Frankenstein (4) It Was Just an Accident, Zootopia 2…
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Oscar History: December 7 (2025)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1882: Harry Chandlee (73 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Original Screenplay 1887: Ernst Toch (76 at death) {3 Noms, 0 Wins} Oscar Nominations: Scoring, Drama Score, Drama/Comedy Score 1891: Fay Bainter (76 at death) {3 Noms, 1 Win} Oscar Nominations: Actress, Supporting Actress Oscar…
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Oscar History: December 6 (2025)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1885: Ernest Palmer (92 at death) {3 Noms, 1 Win} Oscar Nominations: Cinematography, Cinematography (Color) Oscar Win: Cinematography (Color) 1887: Lynn Fontanne (95 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Actress 1889: Abem Finkel (58 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Original Screenplay 1890:…
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10th Seattle Critics Nominations
Seattle critics threw in a few surprises and avoided some major features but for the most part stuck to current conventional wisdom. Nominations Tallies (14) Sinners (12) One Battle After Another (8) Train Dreams (6) Frankenstein, Marty Supreme (5) Hamnet (4) Weapons (3) F1, Sentimental Value, Sorry, Baby (2) Avatar: Fire and Ash, Bugonia, It…
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3rd Michigan Critics Guild Nominations
Michigan’s critics aren’t terribly creative. Many of these selections are about as predictable as you can get. Nominations Tallies (12) One Battle After Another (10) Sinners (6) Hamnet (5) Frankenstein, Marty Supreme (3) Avatar: Fire and Ash, Wicked: For Good (2) Sorry, Baby, Train Dreams (1) The Accountant 2, Another Simple Favor, Arco, Ballerina, Bugonia,…
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31st Critics Choice Nominations
Sinners pulled out a surprisingly large number of nominations while One Battle After Another did quite well as well. There are a few surprises here or there but mostly what we’ve been talking about so far this year. Nominations Tallies (17) Sinners (14) One Battle After Another (11) Frankenstein, Hamnet (8) Marty Supreme (7) F1,…
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Contenders 25: December Update
For our December update, we’re looking at everything that has moved on to a new stage. There aren’t many at this early stage of the year but we have a few. Moving to Stage 2 Once all of the preliminary data has been received, a film moves to Stage 2. Here are the three who…
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Oscar History: December 5 (2025)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1878: Milan Roder (77 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Scoring 1897: Nunnally Johnson (79 at death) {2 Noms, 0 Wins} Oscar Nominations: Screenplay 1898: Grace Moore (48 at death) {1 Nom, 0 Wins} Oscar Nomination: Actress 1901: Walt Disney (65 at death) {59 Noms,…
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25th American Film Institute Top Ten
Jay Kelly is the only surprising inclusion in this list, especially since it seemed to have faded into obscurity since it’s release. Otherwise, mostly films we expected to see. Typically, the Academy’s list will include most of these but with that special award win, It Was Just an Accident will certainly be one of the…
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Oscar Profile: Meryl Streep Revisited
Born June 22, 1949 in Summit, New Jersey to Mary, a commercial artist, and William Streep, Jr., a pharmaceutical executive, Mary Louise (Meryl) Streep’s early performing ambitions tended toward opera. Raised in New Jersey, she received her BA cum laude from Vasser in 1971, and her MBA from Yale Drama School in 1975. Streep’s first…
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Oscar History: December 4 (2025)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1902: Malcolm Bert (70 at death) {2 Noms, 0 Wins} Oscar Nominations: Art Direction/Production Design, Art Direction/Production Design (Color) 1910: Alex North (80 at death) {15 Noms, 1 Win} Oscar Nominations: Original Song, Original Score, Drama/Comedy Score, Substantially Original Score, Non-Musical Score, Drama Score Oscar Win: Special/Honorary…
