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Category: Academy Awards

  • This Day in Oscar History: January 18 (2016)

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

  • Precursor: 21st Critics Choice Awards (2015)

    The Broadcast Film Critics Association have put forth their awards for 2015 picking Spotlight as Best Picture, giving it two other awards for Best Ensemble and Best Original Screenplay. It tied The Big Short for second place among the year’s winners. That film took two prizes from the Comedy segment on top of Best Adapted…

  • Precursor: 36th London Critics Awards (2015)

    The London Film Critics Circle has selected their favorite achievements for 2015. The results are below. Mad Max: Fury Road picked up the top two awards while 45 Years, their selection for Best British/Irish Film of the Year, also took both Best Actor and Best Actress. The rest of the selections weren’t unusual, but clearly…

  • This Day in Oscar History: January 17 (2016)

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

  • This Day in Oscar History: January 16 (2016)

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

  • Oscar in Box Office History (Week 3, 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: Critics Choice Awards

    Sunday night, the second of the televised precursors broadcasts and this time, it’s a group of critics very used to appearing on screen and in a broadcast medium (loosely defined). We put together our lists a little late, so we don’t have any commentary for this one. Suffice it to say, we all expect that…

  • 2015 Oscar Winner Predictions: First Predictions

    Now that the nominations have been announced, we are able to take our first look at the current state of the Oscar race. We’ll present our current winner predictions and our runner-up predictions, those we think could upset if there is to be one. Looking over our initial lists, it’s clear that many races aren’t…

  • This Day in Oscar History: January 15 (2016)

    Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Ceremonies Our Site Milestones 2012: Polls: Best Of… (4)

  • 88th Oscars: The Ins and The Outs

    Now that the Oscar nominations have been revealed, we can discuss what was nominated, what wasn’t and what it all means. Based on my initial predictions, I’m going to go through each category and give you what I predicted correctly, what I didn’t and how I feel about it. I’m only covering 21 of the…

  • 2015 Oscar Predictions: Predictions Outcome

    It’s partly over. The nominations for the 88th Academy Awards have been announced. Looking back over our predictions, here’s how we performed. Here are some statistics before we get into the details. Perfect Categories: Wesley – Actor, Actress, Sound Editing Tripp – Actress, Sound Mixing Thomas – Actor, Actress, Cinematography No One Picked It: Best…

  • Oscar Profile #270: Claude Rains

    Born November 10, 1989 in London, England, (William) Claude Rains was the son of British stage actor Fred Rains. Following in his father’s footsteps, he made his acting debut at the age of 11 in Nell of Old Drury. Growing up in the theatre, he also worked behind the scenes, graduating from page boy to…

  • 88th Oscars: Academy Awards Nominations

    Eight Best Picture nominees, excluding Carol and Inside Out. There were a few surprises thrown in, but this was a surprisingly settled list this year. I will have more commentary on each category later today. Nominations Tallies (12) The Revenant (10) Mad Max: Fury Road (7) The Martian (6) Bridge of Spies, Carol, Spotlight (5)…

  • This Day in Oscar History: January 14 (2016)

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

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

    Earning nominations in all three categories in which it was eligible, Mad Max: Fury Road proves to be the year’s dominant film with the craft guilds. This award, a modest forecaster of the Oscar for Best Makeup and Hairstyling, may shine some lights on the situation. Of the seven films on the Academy’s shortlist for…

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