Category: Academy Awards
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 49, 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…
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89th Oscars: Visual Effects Longlist
The Academy has announced 20 films on the shortlist for consideration for this year’s Best Visual Effects Oscar. From these 20, the list will be narrowed to 10 films from which the final 5 nominees will be selected. Based on my own predictions and hopefuls list, the titles missing are A Monster Calls, Assassin’s Creed,…
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This Day in Oscar History: December 2 (2016)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died
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Precursor: 82nd New York Critics Awards (2016)
La La Land gets another huge shot in the arm with a Best Picture win from the New York Film Critics Circle. Moonlight also got a major boost, as did Isabelle Huppert. Zootopia is the surprising choice for Best Animated Film and gives it a boost towards the Oscars where its early release may have…
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Oscar Profile #316: Mercedes McCambridge
Born March 16, 1916 in Juliet, Illinois, Mercedes McCambridge was the daughter of an Irish-American farmer and his wife, who was of Irish, English and German extraction. Educated in Catholic schools, she graduated from Mundelein University in Chicago before embarking on a career as an actress. Called by Orson Welles “the greatest living radio actress”,…
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Precursor: 22nd Broadcast Critics Nominations (2016)
The Broadcast Film Critics Association, moving ever further back into the awards season, wants to be the first live broadcast of awards of the season. In moving back, they have inadvertently made themselves slightly less relevant. With two of the year’s major Oscar players Silence (for most categories) and Rogue One (in tech categories), not…
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This Day in Oscar History: December 1 (2016)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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This Day in Oscar History: November 30 (2016)
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Precursor: 88th National Board of Review Awards (2016)
Kenneth Lonergan’s drama Manchester by the Sea picked up three prizes from the National Board of review, including Best Picture. Many of the year’s key competitors are in evidence here with some noteworthy surprises such as Hidden Figures earning the ensemble award and the here-to-fore unseen Silence placing on the list in spite of that.…
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Oscar Preview: Weekend of Nov. 25-27, 2016
We had five films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Allied Robert Zemeckis was once a huge name in the realm of cinema. Apart from his Back to the Future films, Zemeckis also brought us 80s classics like Romancing the Stone and Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Best Picture Oscar winner Forrest…
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Precursor: 21st Satellite Awards Nominations (2016)
La La Land had a tremendous day with an astounding 13 nominations. The next film down on the list was Hacksaw Ridge, which needed some measure of recognition from the precursors to remain relevant. Also helped by these nominations: Hidden Figures, a film that didn’t seem on many radars until it was pulled back to…
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This Day in Oscar History: November 29 (2016)
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Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 1
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). Our first precursor of the year, the Spirit Awards nominations, came out last week. The below commentary is…
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Precursor: 25th Annie Awards Nominations (2016)
By benefit of receiving a double nomination in a single category, Zootopia barely edges out Kubo and the Two Strings for the year’s most nominated animated feature. The two will likely be duking it out for dominance with Kubo‘s more inventive stop-motion animation sure to be a foil to the Disney juggernaut from earlier this…
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89th Oscars: Screener Watch: Nov. 21-27, 2016
This week saw a number of groups sending screeners. The Orchard sent five; Amazon Studios sent five; DreamWorks/Universal sent one; Fox Searchlight sent one; Focus Features sent one; The Weinstein Company sent one; and DreamWorks/20th Century Fox sent one. Christine Oscar Chances: None: While Rebecca Hall has received excellent notices, the Best Actress category is…
