Looking at Film from Every Angle

Category: Academy Awards

  • Precursor: 10th St. Louis Critics Awards (2015)

    In spite of the down-ballot collapse of Spotlight, it continues to take prize after prize as Best Picture. This is evinced by the fact that the St. Louis critics gave the film their top prize. Seemingly a new trend is emerging with Tom McCarthy picking up companion Best Director prizes, which he hasn’t been successful…

  • Precursor: 16th Vancouver Critics Nominations (2015)

    Vancouver announced their nominees a week earlier than expected. The Revenant was the top nominee, scoring three citations including Best Picture and Director along with Best Actor. Without tech awards, Mad Max: Fury Road only managed two. Vancouver also gives out prizes for Canadian films. On that side, Room, which scored only two in the…

  • Precursor: 5th Nevada Critics Awards (2015)

    In the wee hours of this morning, another group announced. The awards were divvied out mainly to three films, Best Film winner Spotlight, which wasn’t the best directed film. That honor went to The Revenant, which was also the best shot film with two of the best performances. Ex Machina also performed well. Is this…

  • This Day in Oscar History: December 20 (2015)

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

  • This Day in Oscar History: December 19 (2015)

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

  • Oscar in Box Office History (Week 51, 2015)

    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…

  • Precursor: 19th Las Vegas Critics Awards (2015)

    Another win for Spotlight along with three other awards, including a rare win for director Tom McCarthy. Mad Max: Fury Road took mostly tech awards to tie Spotlight for most prizes while many of the other selections have become standard for this season resulting in no genuine surprises. Award Tallies (4) Mad Max: Fury Road,…

  • This Day in Oscar History: December 18 (2015)

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

  • 88th Oscars: Final Foreign Film Shortlist

    The massive number of entries have now been winnowed down to 9. Of note, there are 7 titles ont his list from Europe, one from the Middle East and one from South America. Diversity hasn’t always been the Academy’s strong suit. The films I thought were most likely to make the final draft included Brazil’s…

  • Oscar Profile #266: Frank Capra

    Born Francisco Rosario Capra on May 18, 1897 in Bisacquino, Sicily and raised in Los Angeles from the age of six, the future President of both AMPAS (the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences) and the DGA (Directors Guild of America) would become a naturalized American citizen in 1920 at which time he legally…

  • This Day in Oscar History: December 17 (2015)

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

  • 88th Oscars: Original Score Shortlist

    The Academy has narrowed down the eligible scores for this year’s Best Original Score Oscar to 112. In my quick look through the list, I didn’t see any immediately major omissions, though I’ll probably uncover some later. (EDIT: It looks like The Revenant is the one major omission from this list.) 112 ORIGINAL SCORES IN…

  • Precursor: 28th Chicago Critics Awards (2015)

    A huge night for George Miller as his reboot of Mad Max: Fury Road commanded five awards from Chicago, one of its best totals so far this year. Apart from Best Picture and Best Director, the film also scored three tech awards. Leonardo DiCaprio gets one of the major prizes that should push him towards…

  • Precursor: 11th Austin Critics Awards (2015)

    This season has been back-and-forth with various films taking turns in the lead and being shafted. Here, Carol‘s back in the lead and The Hateful Eight performs the best to date as does Anomalisa. Meanwhile, The Revenant scores only two nominations. Strangely, Trumbo has only two nominations, one of which is for Best Picture. Award…

  • Precursor: 49th Kansas City Critics Nominations (2015)

    Kansas City has added nominations to this year’s proceedings, with Sicario topping the nomination count, a first for the drug war drama. Ex Machina pulls into a tie with other awards seasons favorites Mad Max: Fury Road and The Revenant. Steve Jobs has its best performance so far with three nominations, just not one for…

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