Category: Academy Awards
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This Day in Oscar History: January 31 (2016)
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Precursor: 22nd Screen Actors Guild Awards (2015)
What could have been a closing of the door towards other potential Best Picture winners, The Big Short went home empty-handed, losing the big award to Spotlight, which needed this win to stay in the competition for Best Picture at the Oscars. DiCaprio, Larson and Vikander have now cemented their frontrunner statuses. Idris Elba took…
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Precursor: 55th American Cinema Editors Awards (2015)
With the first guild tech prize out of the box, it looks like the leaders are every bit as expected. Mad Max was an unsurprising victor in Best Drama Editing, while fellow Oscar Best Picture nominee The Big Short won in comedy. The leaders of the Best Animated Feature and Best Documentary Feature competition won…
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This Day in Oscar History: January 30 (2016)
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 5, 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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2015 Precursor Predictions: Screen Actors Guild
The Screen Actors Guild Awards are this weekend and either they’ll complicate the Best Picture and acting races or they’ll solidify support behind a particular title. That’s what we’re going to be looking for in the winners this weekend. It’s the second of the most influential guild awards to announce, so it may give us…
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2015 Precursor Predictions: Art Directors Guild
With a race as volatile as this one, anything could win. Even our contributors can’t seem to unite on a single film. The closest is The Danish Girl, the only film to pick up first place and runner-up votes from everyone. Yet, with no more than two of us agreeing on any one production, it…
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2015 Precursor Predictions: American Cinema Editors
Except in one category, our contributors are unified in their predictions. That lone hold out is Peter, who doesn’t believe the editors will go for Mad Max: Fury Road. Our runner-up selections are much more interesting as they are largely split in many places. As a forecaster of the Best Editing award at the Oscars,…
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This Day in Oscar History: January 29 (2016)
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88th Oscars: Presenters, Part 1
In prior years, the Academy announced performers and presenters individually. They seem to want to do them only in batches, so here is the first press release on the subject. They don’t specify who’s doing what, but it’s certain that The Weeknd, Sam Smith and Lady Gaga will each be performing their nominated songs. I’m…
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Oscar Profile #272: Jack Lemmon
Born John Uhler (Jack) Lemmon III on February 8, 1925, the future eight-time Oscar nominee and two-time winner was born in an elevator on the way to the delivery room at Newton-Wellesley Hospital in Newton, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston. His father was the president of a donut company. Lemmon was president of the famed…
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This Day in Oscar History: January 28 (2016)
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Precursor: 63rd Sound Editors Guild Nominations (2015)
Most guilds announce their nominations before the Academy Awards. These can often be instructive as to what the branches are thinking. This year, one of the guilds decided to release quite some time after the nominations and their results aren’t very elucidating as a result. However, it’s worth noting that the Motion Picture Sound Editors…
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This Day in Oscar History: January 27 (2016)
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This Day in Oscar History: January 26 (2016)
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