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Category: Academy Awards

  • Precursor: 9th Houston Critics Awards (2015)

    Spotlight comes out on top of the Houston Film Critics awards losing another Best Director award, this time to Alejandro G. Inarritu for The Revenant. Revenant took three total awards, including prizes for Best Supporting Actor and Best Cinematography. Hardy’s win notwithstanding, there’s nothing particularly revelatory about these selections. There was announced a Best Poster…

  • This Day in Oscar History: January 10 (2016)

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

  • Precursor: 16th Vancouver Critics – Canadian Awards (2015)

    On January 7, the Vancouver critics gave out their awards for the best in Canadian filmmaking. Separate from their annual awards for general film excellence, these are only for films made by Canadians. That means it’s not very surprising that major Oscar contender Room managed to win the most awards with four, including Best Canadian…

  • Precursor: 5th Georgia Critics Awards (2015)

    Although it didn’t get key nominations at BAFTA this week, the Road Warrior continues its dominance of the critics awards picking up four prizes from the Georgia film critics, who also happen to be the only group to recognize Ant-Man, but there are reasons for that. Nothing new or exciting here, though, as many of…

  • This Day in Oscar History: January 9 (2016)

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

  • Oscar in Box Office History (Week 2, 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: Golden Globe Awards

    Sunday night, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) will present their annual Golden Globe Awards, the industry’s first televised precursor and one of the most legendary of them all. While they weren’t always the best forecasters, their choices in recent years have been better, thus what they pick matters a great deal. Any choice that…

  • Precursor: 57th British Academy Nominations (2015)

    Several notions were put to rest today by the British Academy of Film & Television Arts, the United Kingdom equivalent of the Academy Awards. First is that Carol was having a bad year. Tying Bridge of Spies for most nominations with 9, Carol is the year’s most nominated film. Unfortunately, they went for the category…

  • This Day in Oscar History: January 8 (2016)

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

  • Oscar Profile #269: Robert Zemeckis

    Born May 14, 1952 in Chicago, Illinois, Robert Zemeckis was educated at the University of Southern California where his fellow students included writing partner Bob Gale and future producer/director George Lucas. While at USC, Zemeckis won a Student Academy Award for A Field of Honor, an urban action film set to Elmer Bernstein’s score for…

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

    There aren’t many precursors for costume design, as such the Costume Designers Guild (CDG) is one of the best ways to see what the trade thinks of the potential nominees. Of the precursors that have gone out so far, The Assassin, Far from the Madding Crowd, Macbeth and The Throne are the only nominees that…

  • Precursor: 29th USC Scripter Nominations (2015)

    Of the six adapted screenplays that have, so far, won accolades for being the best from various precursors, Carol and Anomalisa are the only ones missing from this list. It’s not surprising that Anomalisa is absent, because it’s based on a screenplay, not on a literary piece. The USC Scripters reward the original author of…

  • This Day in Oscar History: January 7 (2016)

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

  • Precursor: 68th Writers Guild Nominations (2015)

    Bridge of Spies takes a temporary lead in the guild derbies securing citations from six of six guilds. Mad Max: Fury Road and The Revenant were never going to be players here because they are light on dialogue, as such they move into second with five-for-six along with The Big Short, Spotlight and Sicario. [NOTE:…

  • Precursor: 30th Cinematographers Guild Nominations (2015)

    All four of the films that have so far won precursors for their cinematography make an appearance here with Bridge of Spies rounding out the list. After two days of snubs, Carol makes a merited appearance on the list while Roger Deakins and Janusz Kaminski continue their almost-always-nominated trends. Emmanuel Lubeszki seems to be following…

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