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Category: Academy Awards

  • This Day in Oscar History: February 6 (2017)

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

  • Precursor: 21st Online Film & Television Awards (2016)

    The Online Film & Television Association has announced its awards for 2016. Many believe that La La Land will perform a pretty major sweep at the Oscars, but that didn’t intimidate the OFTA into trying to duplicate that. From the looks of their winners, they broke out of the mold in several areas. While a…

  • 89th Oscars: The Polls – Best Cinematography

    For the next 24 days, we’re going to present to you polls for who and what you think the best of 2015 was based on the Oscar nominations. Every morning at 8am, we’ll post a new poll for each category. Just submit your vote for the best in that category and that’s it. We’ll have…

  • This Day in Oscar History: February 5 (2017)

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

  • Precursor: 25th Annie Awards Awards (2016)

    The worship of Disney continues with the strong showing of Zootopia with six prizes including Best Animated Feature. Kubo and the Two Strings came in second with three awards (though, honestly, it should have won). Awards Tallies (6) Zootopia (3) Kubo and the Two Strings (2) Moana (1) Doctor Strange, The Jungle Book, The Little…

  • Precursor: 69th Directors Guild Awards (2016)

    While the cinematographers went in an unexpected direction, the Directors Guild of America were highly predictable with all the expected winners winning. The Awards Best Director Damien Chazelle – La La Land (Wesley, Peter, Tripp, Thomas) Best First Feature Garth Davis – Lion (Wesley, Peter, Tripp, Thomas) Best Documentary Director Ezra Edelman – O.J.: Made…

  • Precursor: 31st Cinematographers Guild Awards (2016)

    In a shock no one could have seen coming, Greg Fraiser takes the award for Best Cinematography for Lion, the safe money was on Linus Sandgren for La La Land, which makes for an interesting bump in its race towards the Oscar. The Awards Best Cinematography Lion – Greg Fraiser American Society of Cinematographers Data…

  • 89th Oscars: The Polls – Best Original Screenplay

    For the next 24 days, we’re going to present to you polls for who and what you think the best of 2015 was based on the Oscar nominations. Every morning at 8am, we’ll post a new poll for each category. Just submit your vote for the best in that category and that’s it. We’ll have…

  • This Day in Oscar History: February 4 (2017)

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

  • Oscar in Box Office History (Week 5, 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…

  • 2016 Precursor Predictions: American Society of Cinematographers

    Saturday evening, all eyes are going to be on the Directors Guild of America. While some will be paying attention to the American Society of Cinematographers, most of those will be Oscar aficionados looking for Oscar hints. Below are our predictions for Saturday’s ASC event.

  • 2016 Precursor Predictions: Annie Awards

    While all eyes will be on the Directors Guild of America tomorrow night, I’ll be gladly checking out the ceremony for the Annie Awards. One of the brightest spots of the Oscar season, their livestreamed awards are often funny and quite engaging. You won’t find great production values, but being entertained is often more important.…

  • 2016 Precursor Predictions: Directors Guild of America

    The big guild announcement this weekend will be the Directors Guild of America. One of the most accurate Oscar barometers out there, the winner here is almost guaranteed the Best Director Oscar and his film is likely to also be the Best Picture winner, that’s how often this group aligns with the Academy.

  • The Rundown 2016: Best Supporting Actor

    For our third Rundown article, we take a glimpse into the competition for one of the four acting categories. 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 that goes great with…

  • 89th Oscars: The Polls – Best Supporting Actor

    For the next 24 days, we’re going to present to you polls for who and what you think the best of 2015 was based on the Oscar nominations. Every morning at 8am, we’ll post a new poll for each category. Just submit your vote for the best in that category and that’s it. We’ll have…

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