Category: Academy Awards
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This Day in Oscar History: December 25 (2015)
Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Oscar Profile #267: Frank Sinatra
Born December 12, 1915 in Hoboken, New Jersey, Francis Albert (Frank) Sinatra would become the most popular singer of his time, if not all time. His voice has been heard on movie soundtracks from 1941 to the present day, fifteen years after his death, and is likely to continue to be heard as long as…
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This Day in Oscar History: December 24 (2015)
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Precursor: 19th Florida Critics Awards (2015)
Chalk up another win for the post-apocalyptic critics’ fave Mad Max: Fury Road. This list looks an awful lot like a lot of other lists lately, just structured slightly differently. There’s nothing inherently good or bad about that, just more of the same. Award Tallies (4) Mad Max: Fury Road (2) Love & Mercy, Spotlight…
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Precursor: 16th Vancouver Critics Awards (2015)
The Vancouver Critics have named their list of the best films of 2015. They will reveal their awards for the best in Canadian films at their awards in January. The status quo was restored with Spotlight winning Best Picture and Mad Max: Fury Road taking Best Director. The most unusual thing about this list is…
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This Day in Oscar History: December 23 (2015)
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Precursor: 15th Phoenix Critics Awards (2015)
Spotlight picks up another Best Picture win from the Phoenix Film Critics, but does so with only Best Ensemble to go with it. Taking Best Director is Ridley Scott with his first win since the National Board of Review at the top of the season. The rest of the selections, with the exception of Best…
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Precursor: 14th Utah Critics Awards (2015)
Utah Critics love their genre films, awarding only The Revenant, Room and Creed in the main categories with the runners-up all largely hailing from genres other than Academy-friendly dramas. While there weren’t many really unusual selections, two stick out. The first is Rose Byrne’s win for Spy, a movie I wholeheartedly support. The second is…
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This Day in Oscar History: December 22 (2015)
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Precursor: 19th Florida Critics Nominations (2015)
Topping another set of nominations, Carol edged out Mad Max: Fury Road by one nomination. Ex Machina and Spotlight did fairly well. One of the few critics groups to announce after Star Wars: The Force Awakens released gave it three nominations, but only in the tech categories (plus a Best Breakthrough nomination). There are really…
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88th Oscars: Visual Effects Finalists
The Visual Effects branch has complete its narrowing of contenders for this year’s Best Visual Effects Oscar. All five of the films I am currently predicting to get Oscar nominations are still on the list. Of the films that didn’t make the cut, only Everest and Terminator Genisys seem oddly absent. I also don’t know…
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Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 4
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). The critics awards deluge is now over with only a small handful left to announce. This means that…
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Oscar Preview: Weekend of Dec. 18-20, 2015
We had five films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. (NOTE: I realized as I was preparing the article for Dec. 25-27 that I inadvertently did that weekends releases here. As such, I’m doing the Dec. 18-20, 2015 releases during the Dec. 25-27 window instead.) Concussion Before this film unspooled, there…
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This Day in Oscar History: December 21 (2015)
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Precursor: 49th Kansas City Critics Awards (2015)
Another prize for Mad Max: Fury Road, so far the only film to be giving Spotlight a run for its money this season. More love for DiCaprio proving the studio should have screened it sooner and he might have had a much larger consensus. Michael Shannon and Alicia Vikander are also proving formidable, but which…
