Looking at Film from Every Angle

Category: Academy Awards

  • This Day in Oscar History: January 6 (2016)

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

  • Precursor: 10th Oklahoma Critics Awards (2015)

    We have yet another award for Spotlight, this time from the critics out of Oklahoma. They largely recognized names we’ve been seeing throughout the season, except for one. Michael Keaton had light traction early in precursor season, but then disappeared. Here, he comes roaring back in the most minute way possible, in a tie with…

  • Precursor: 5th Georgia Critics Nominations (2015)

    An incredibly strong performance by Mad Max: Fury Road among this year’s nominations put it atop the field for most nominations. The Best Picture nominee was also slotted in Best Ensemble, a result that has to be somewhat surprising considering few have discussed the film’s performances in these terms before. Carol‘s Rooney Mara mention comes…

  • Precursor: 19th Toronto Critics – Canadian Film (2015)

    After announcing their nominations and then their winners, there was one prize left to award and it went as follows. It will have zero impact on the Oscars. The Awards Best Canadian Film The Forbidden Room Toronto Film Critics Association Data First Awards: 1997 (19)

  • Precursor: 27th Producers Guild Nominations (2015)

    There’s about to be an explosion on the internet based on three major exclusions from this year’s PGA nominations. This will be led by Star Wars: The Force Awakens fans who will discover that their film is NOT among the PGA Best Picture nominees even though everyone felt fairly certain it would be here. That…

  • Precursor: 20th Art Directors Guild Nominations (2015)

    What to make of these nominations? The period category has a number of surprises including the omissions of both Carol and Brooklyn. It should come as little surprise that Crimson Peak showed up, but if The Danish Girl, why not those other more quaintly crafted pieces? Another entry not here that should have been considering…

  • 88th Oscars: Hopefuls Update, Pre-Guild – Part 2

    Yesterday, I discussed my pre-guild predictions in several categories. Today, I finish up those discussions with the final eleven. Enjoy. Best Original Song There are no guilds to reference for this category, so this might be the last time I revisit this category. Looking over the handful of groups that nominate for this award, including…

  • This Day in Oscar History: January 5 (2016)

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

  • Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 6

    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). With only the National Society of Film Critics revealing their selections by the time I had to get…

  • Oscar Preview: 2016 Holding Pattern

    Normally, I review all the Oscar contenders releasing in a single week. However, with Oscar season going on, I’m covering the weekly winners & losers at the same time as writing this article. In addition, most of the films that release early in the year are seldom Oscar contenders. As such, after the Oscars are…

  • Precursor: 55th American Cinema Editors Nominations (2015)

    The American Cinema Editors have announced their nominees for the best edited films of the year. Once again, small, deliberately paced films are largely forgotten while big action spectacles are given prominent placement. They split out comedy editing because of the different constraints. Maybe it’s time to pull action films out into their own category.…

  • 88th Oscars: Hopefuls Update, Pre-Guild – Part 1

    The first guild to announce every year is the Screen Actors Guild, which now reveals their nominees in early December (this year it was on Dec. 9, 2015). Their reasoning is that with the nominees in place, work can begin on preparing their annual telecast. This is a perfectly understandable decision, but it does create…

  • This Day in Oscar History: January 4 (2016)

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

  • Precursor: 50th National Society of Film Critics Awards (2015)

    Another award for Spotlight carried without its director, who almost won the balloting, but failed to appear on a majority of ballots. Other than that, this group’s appreciation for Creed is a bit surprising and the closeness of the races is evinced by the fact that only three categories had a hefty number of points…

  • This Day in Oscar History: January 3 (2016)

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

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