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Category: Academy Awards

  • The Rundown 2017: Supporting Actor

    For our seventeenth Rundown article, we look at the secondary male acting category. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Supporting Actor as well as general commentary about the race. Next week, we’ll start off on Monday with a category where Best Picture nominees are most required to feature a…

  • 90th Oscars: The Polls – Best Makeup & Hairstyling

    For the next two weeks, we’re going to present to you polls for who and what you think the best of 2017 was based on the Oscar nominations. Every morning at 8am and 8pm, we’ll post a new poll for each category. Just submit your vote for the best in that category and that’s it.…

  • This Day in Oscar History: February 23 (2018)

    Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released Oscar Nominations

  • 90th Oscars: The Polls – Best Sound Mixing

    For the next two weeks, we’re going to present to you polls for who and what you think the best of 2017 was based on the Oscar nominations. Every morning at 8am and 8pm, we’ll post a new poll for each category. Just submit your vote for the best in that category and that’s it.…

  • Oscar Profile #380: Franco Zeffirelli

    Born February 12, 1923 in Florence, Italy, Franco Zeffirelli was the product of an affair between a fashion designer and a wool and silk dealer, both of whom were married to others. Unable to give her child either name, his mother came up with “Zeffiretti”, the little breezes mentioned in Mozart’s opera, Indomeneo. However, the…

  • The Rundown 2017: Sound Editing

    For our sixteenth Rundown article, we look at the category where sound is created out of whole cloth. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Sound Editing as well as general commentary about the race. Friday, we’ll cover a category where only men can be nominated and where there has…

  • 90th Oscars: The Polls – Best Sound Editing

    For the next two weeks, we’re going to present to you polls for who and what you think the best of 2017 was based on the Oscar nominations. Every morning at 8am and 8pm, we’ll post a new poll for each category. Just submit your vote for the best in that category and that’s it.…

  • This Day in Oscar History: February 22 (2018)

    Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released Oscar Ceremonies Oscar Nominations

  • 90th Oscars: The Polls – Best Visual Effects

    For the next two weeks, we’re going to present to you polls for who and what you think the best of 2017 was based on the Oscar nominations. Every morning at 8am and 8pm, we’ll post a new poll for each category. Just submit your vote for the best in that category and that’s it.…

  • 90th Oscars: Presenters, Group 2

    The second batch of presenters have been announced. Looking over the list, we have another varied group with lots of minorities, though still no gay or lesbian presenters. Mark Hamill and Armie Hammer are the only two straight white guys on the list. 10 MORE PRESENTERS ANNOUNCED FOR 90TH OSCARS® GAL GADOT, MARK HAMILL, ARMIE…

  • The Rundown 2017: Visual Effects

    For our fifteenth Rundown article, we look at the only category that visually overlays something onto nothing. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Visual Effects as well as general commentary about the race. Thursday, we’ll cover the category that was once a special achievement award while its aural counterpart…

  • 90th Oscars: The Polls – Best Foreign Language Film

    For the next two weeks, we’re going to present to you polls for who and what you think the best of 2017 was based on the Oscar nominations. Every morning at 8am and 8pm, we’ll post a new poll for each category. Just submit your vote for the best in that category and that’s it.…

  • This Day in Oscar History: February 21 (2018)

    Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released Oscar Nominations

  • Precursor: 20th Costume Designers Guild Awards (2017)

    The Costume Designers Guild has upended expectations by selection two of three rather surprising choices. Phantom Thread failed to pick up the expected Period Costume Design award while Beauty and the Beast failed in Fantasy. That two double-whammy against the presumed Oscar frontrunners puts into question their continued success in the race. The only largely…

  • 90th Oscars: The Polls – Best Documentary Feature

    For the next two weeks, we’re going to present to you polls for who and what you think the best of 2017 was based on the Oscar nominations. Every morning at 8am and 8pm, we’ll post a new poll for each category. Just submit your vote for the best in that category and that’s it.…

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