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Category: Academy Awards

  • 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). There aren’t many critics groups left and then we’ll be in the heart of the guild precursor season.…

  • This Day in Oscar History: December 19 (2016)

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

  • Precursor: 50th Kansas City Critics Awards (2016)

    It appears that KC chose not to nominate in other categories. However, here are their totally mainstream selections. Awards Tallies (3) Manchester by the Sea (2) Arrival, Hell or High Water, Moonlight The Awards Best Picture Manchester by the Sea Best Animated Feature Zootopia Best Director Kenneth Lonergan – Manchester by the Sea Best Actor…

  • Precursor: 17th Vancouver Critics Nominations (2016)

    Breaking their nominations up into general film categories and Canadian film categories, the Vancouver Film Critics yesterday announced their nomination for 2016. The big nominees among Canadian films are Hello Destroyer, Werewolf, and Window Horses, which were their three nominees for Best Canadian film. Similarly, their biggest nominees for the general film awards were their…

  • This Day in Oscar History: December 18 (2016)

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  • This Day in Oscar History: December 17 (2016)

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  • 89th Oscars: Visual Effects Shortlist

    The Academy’s Visual Effects branch has narrowed its list down to ten. The expected inclusions, Rogue One, The Jungle Book, Doctor Strange, and Fantastic Beasts are there. I expect those to be the nominees and would love for Kubo to join them. 10 CONTENDERS REMAIN IN VFX OSCAR® RACE LOS ANGELES, CA – The Academy…

  • Oscar in Box Office History (Week 51, 2016)

    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…

  • Precursor: 29th Chicago Critics Awards (2016)

    As expected, Chicago Film Critics voted and their nominations leader won: Moonlight still went home with fewer awards than Manchester by the Sea, which claimed four prizes to Moonlight and The Handmaiden‘s three each. None of these selections are particularly surprising. Awards Tallies (4) Manchester by the Sea (3) The Handmaiden, Moonlight (2) La La…

  • This Day in Oscar History: December 16 (2016)

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

  • 89th Oscars: Foreign Language Film Shortlist

    The Academy still isn’t sending me press releases, which is disturbing since they were for some time. I’m not sure if I got dumped or Hotmail is just not accepting them. Anyway, even their own website doesn’t currently list the press release. As such, I’m just going to list below the 9 films that have…

  • Oscar Profile #318: Peter Hedges

    Born July 6, 1962 in West Des Moines, Iowa, Peter Hedges was the third child of psychotherapist Carole Simpson and Episcopalian minister Robert Hedges. Father Hedges was, among other things, the chaplain of the Iowa National Guard for 21 years before relocating to Texas where he died in 2014 at the age of 88. Peter…

  • Precursor: 50th Kansas City Critics Nominations (2016)

    In years’ past, KC has nominated a full slate of categories, but this year, they’ve only announced their Best Picture slate and have said winners in all categories will be revealed on December 18. We’ll find out then if there other nominees. As to this list, the two non-competitive titles on the list are The…

  • This Day in Oscar History: December 15 (2016)

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  • 89th Oscars: Original Score Eligibility List

    It’s now time to look at the final longlist from the Academy, the scores eligible for this year’s Best Original Score Oscar. Note that Arrival, once thought to be a major competitor in this category, was declared ineligible because it prominently used a previously written piece in the score, which might cause confusion among voters…

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