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Category: Academy Awards

  • Precursor: 29th USC Scripter Awards (2015)

    With seven of eight past winners matching the Oscars, USC’s award to The Big Short, paired with its WGA win, pretty much secures the film its Oscar. Things could still change as that one instance of failed selection was Up in the Air, Jason Reitman’s Best Picture contender, that ended up losing to Precious under…

  • Precursor: 7th Make-Up Artists Guild Awards (2015)

    With little competition, Mad Max: Fury Road proved the dominant winner at this year’s Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild awards, taking two of its three awards, losing the third to Cinderella. None of these competitions was against The Revenant, so it’s possible that this doesn’t signify much, but the Oscar is certainly closer to…

  • Precursor: 23rd Cinema Audio Society Awards (2015)

    After BAFTA, The Revenant winning this award comes as no real surprise. It does hurt Mad Max: Fury Road‘s chances at the Oscars and positions The Revenant as a primary contender for Best Picture. The Awards Best Sound Mixing – Live Action The Revenant (Peter, RU:Wesley, RU:Thomas) Best Sound Mixing – Animated Inside Out (Wesley,…

  • 88th Oscars: The Polls – Best Documentary Feature

    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 21 (2016)

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

  • 88th Oscars: The Polls – Best Documentary Short Subject

    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 20 (2016)

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

  • Oscar in Box Office History (Week 8, 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…

  • 2015 Precursor Predictions: Cinema Audio Society

    The guild whose award is analogous of the Oscar for Best Sound Mixing is the Cinema Audio Society. Their track record is very hit-or-miss. They’ll peg the Oscar winner several years in a row then whiff. In a year with so many strong competitors, it wouldn’t be surprising if they didn’t match. It could be…

  • 2015 Precursor Predictions: Make-Up Artists Guild

    The Make-Up Artists Guild has been around such a short time that it’s hard to say if they’ll have much prognosticative capability. As such, we can’t really say we know how it will affect Oscar, nor can we really get a firm grasp on what will win these awards, but we’ll do our best.

  • 2015 Precursor Predictions: USC Scripter

    Through 2006, the USC Scripter prize was a poor predictor of the Oscars. Frequently going for major novelists (whom they award alongside the screenwriters) over Oscar winners. However, from 2007 on, the USC Scripter has only once gone to a film that didn’t also win the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay. That was 2009, the…

  • The Rundown 2015: Actress

    For our fifteenth Rundown article, the female version of the lead category. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Actress as well as general commentary about the race. Next week, we’ll start off on Monday with a category that takes something everyone’s seen, heard or read and makes it new…

  • 88th Oscars: The Polls – Best Actress

    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 19 (2016)

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

  • 88th Oscars: Presenters, Part 4

    The fourth set of Oscar presenters have been announced. Since there are so few in this announcement, I suspect this might be the last, but never count out late surprises. We still do not have a performer to sing “Manta Ray” or any concrete plans for the presentation of “Simple Song #3,” so I really…

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