Category: Academy Awards
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Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 9
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). After another situation where a website said one thing when I looked and something else was the truth,…
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This Day in Oscar History: January 25 (2016)
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Precursor: 20th Online Film & Television Nominations (2015)
Mad Max: Fury Road was the big nominee at this year’s OFTA film awards. With a nomination in Best Picture, a clean sweep of the techs and a number of categories in between, the film tops the nearest nominee by 3. Carol finds a boon with the group, securing a massive ten nominations, including a…
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This Day in Oscar History: January 24 (2016)
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Precursor: 27th Producers Guild Awards (2015)
The big story is that The Big Short took a mostly unexpected win with the PGA. In spite of a mediocre box office performance, the producers chose the housing market crash comedy as its choice for Best Picture, which positions it very well for a Best Picture run at the Oscars. Inside Out and Amy…
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This Day in Oscar History: January 23 (2016)
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 4, 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: Producers Guild
The Producers Guild of America is the only set of awards chosen entirely by producers. Typically, they have different goals when choosing films, success among them. However, they do try their best to forecast the Oscars and will often go for an acclaimed film even if it wasn’t a box office behemoth. Here are our…
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This Day in Oscar History: January 22 (2016)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Ceremonies Our Site Milestones 2010: The Oscar Guy Became Cinema Sight (6)
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Oscar Profile #271: Leslie Caron
Born July 1, 1931 in Boulogne-sur-Seine, France, the daughter of a Franco-American dancer and a French chemist, Leslie Caron was groomed by her mother to be a ballet dancer from childhood. She was discovered by Gene Kelly in the Roland Petit Company “Ballet des Champs Elysées” who cast her as his co-star in An American…
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This Day in Oscar History: January 21 (2016)
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This Day in Oscar History: January 20 (2016)
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88th Oscars: Post-Nominations Thoughts
We asked out contributors for their thoughts on this year’s Oscar nominations. Their responses run the gamut from predictions to opinions on the nominees to hopes for victors. We put no actual requirement on their thoughts and that variance makes for interesting reading. WESLEY LOVELL I put most of my thoughts together regarding the nominations…
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This Day in Oscar History: January 19 (2016)
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Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 8
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). It may not seem like it now, but a lot has happened in the last week. While there…
