Category: Academy Awards

  • This Day in Oscar History: February 25 (2016)

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

  • The Rundown 2015: Makeup & Hairstyling

    For our eighteenth Rundown article, we examine the category where becoming someone else is par for the course. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Makeup & Hairstyling as well as general commentary about the race. Thursday, we’ll cover the penultimate category where frocks are the main course.

  • 88th Oscars: The Polls – Best Adapted 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…

  • Precursor: 18th Costume Designers Guild Awards (2015)

    There’s big news out of this year’s Costume Designers Guild awards. For most the season, everyone thought Cinderella might be the inevitable winner of the Oscar, but the CDG may have changed that thought process. Mad Max: Fury Road pulls off an upset win over the costumes of Cinderella, giving it a strong boost going…

  • This Day in Oscar History: February 24 (2016)

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

  • 2015 Precursor Predictions: Costume Designers Guild Awards

    With three categories, the Costume Designers Guild has a better-than-average chance of picking the eventual Oscar winner. You can ignore the contemporary category because it never has an Oscar impact. However, with the other two categories, you’d think they’d be better predictors. They aren’t. Since their inception, they have accurately predicted the Oscar winner eight…

  • The Rundown 2015: Sound Awards

    For our seventeenth Rundown article, we look at the non-musical aural categories. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Sound Mixing and Best Sound Editing as well as general commentary about the race. Wednesday, we’ll cover category that physically makes everyone look different.

  • 88th 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 23 (2016)

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

  • Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 13

    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). The penultimate weekend has left all but three precursors decided, those precursors will have little impact on Oscar…

  • 88th Oscars: Predictions Polls

    To date, we’ve been asking you what your favorite selections are. Now, let’s look at your prognostication capabilities by asking you to select the films/achievements you think will win this year’s Oscars. Best Picture: Best Animated Feature: Best Directing: Best Actor: Best Actress: Best Supporting Actor: Best Supporting Actress: Best Adapted Screenplay: Best Original Screenplay:…

  • The Rundown 2015: Adapted Screenplay

    For our sixteenth Rundown article, we look at the final foundation category. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Adapted Screenplay as well as general commentary about the race. Tuesday, we’ll cover the two categories that feed our ears with all its non-musical goodness.

  • Precursor: 20th Satellite Awards (2015)

    Having announced fairly early in the process, this group’s nominations hardly reflected the Academy’s even with more than five nominees in each category. Still, there were some very interesting choices here that are outside of the mainstream such as Christian Bale for Best Supporting Actor and Saoirse Ronan for Actress. Neither of these have been…

  • 88th Oscars: The Polls – Best Sound Editing

    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 22 (2016)

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

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