Category: Academy Awards
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Precursor: 9th Indiana Critics Awards (2017)
The Indiana Film Journalists love Lady Bird bestowing numerous awards on the film. No other film came close. The winners weren’t generally out of the ordinary, though the adapted screenplay love for Logan is unexpected. Award Tallies (6) Lady Bird (2) The Florida Project The Awards
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Precursor: 16th Utah Critics Awards (2017)
After sixteen years, the Utah film critics are still a bit baffling. Apart from a handful of Oscar contenders, they went far left field with the choices of Ghost Story for Best Picture, Andy Serkis in Best Actor, and Tatiana Maslany in Best Supporting Actress. Award Tallies (2) Blade Runner 2049, The Shape of Water…
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90th Oscars: Original Song Eligibility List
Seventy songs are on track for potential nomination in this year’s song eligibility list. As usual, it’s difficult to say just what will impress voters the most to get the nomination. 70 ORIGINAL SONGS VIE FOR 2017 OSCAR® LOS ANGELES, CA – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that 70 songs…
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90th Oscars: Original Score Eligibility List
Not a shortlist as every eligible score is listed, but here we have 141 scores in competition. The list is included in the post below. The truly shocking one here is he eligibility of Beauty and the Beast, an almost derivative score with some original elements. In any other year, it would have been ruled…
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90th Oscars: Visual Effects Shortlist
The Visual Effects Branch of the Academy has narrowed their longlist down to ten contenders. The five Oscar nominees will come from this list. This is a solid list with only Okja something of a surprise. Of note is what didn’t make this final list that was on the longlist. Justice League, Logan, Thor: Ragnarok,…
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Oscar Preview: Weekend of Dec. 15-17, 2017
We had one film release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Star Wars: The Last Jedi One of the biggest franchise in history is also one of the biggest at the Oscars. Nine films have been released since 1977 and every single one of them has been an Oscar nominee. While Episodes…
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Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 4
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). It has been an uber-hectic week. Plenty of content this week and most of it is hard to…
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This Day in Oscar History: December 18 (2017)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Precursor: 21st Online Critics Nominations (2017)
The Online Film Critics Society made changes to its rules and categories this year making things a bit more unusual. There are some very odd choices on this list that don’t fit into the current Oscar narrative, so they may not be that indicative this year. Award Tallies (8) The Shape of Water (6) Call…
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Precursor: 12th St. Louis Critics Awards (2017)
The St. Louis film critics went for The Shape of Water in a huge way, presenting it with a solid 5 awards. Award Tallies (5) The Shape of Water (2) Baby Driver, Blade Runner 2049 The Awards
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Precursor: 51st Kansas City Critics Awards (2017)
Another win for Get Out with lots of equal love for Call Me by Your Name. Award Tallies (3) Call Me by Your Name, Get Out (2) The Shape of Water The Awards
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This Day in Oscar History: December 17 (2017)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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This Day in Oscar History: December 16 (2017)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Precursor: 18th Vancouver Critics Nominations (2017)
Vancouver film critics have made their selections for the year’s best films. Two things always to note about Vancouver. They are the only group that only selects three nominees in each category (excepting this year’s Best British Columbian Film) and they are the only group that actively recognizes Canadian-only films with a full slate of…
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 50, 2017)
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…
