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Category: Academy Awards

  • Precursor: 21st Broadcast Critics Nominations (2015)

    The Critics Choice awards nominations have been announced. This is the last of the major televised pre-Oscar awards groups. It’s noteworthy that this is the only major group that gives out genre-specific awards. As such, several of the top nominees (including Mad Max‘s 13) need to be taken with a grain of salt. To help…

  • Precursor: 7th Indiana Critics Awards (2015)

    Best Film runner-up Room earned the most prizes (in a tie with Spotlight) with the Indiana journalist taking both acting prizes and the award for Adapted Screenplay. This is the best the film has fared so far among critics. Spotlight won another Best Film award and captured Best Original Screenplay and a first for Mark…

  • This Day in Oscar History: December 14 (2015)

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

  • Precursor: 14th San Francisco Critics Awards (2015)

    San Francisco gave its Best Picture award to Spotlight but gave it no other award. Best Director winner Mad Max: Fury Road took three prizes while Brooklyn and Love & Mercy took two each. Although they double-nommed Paul Dano, he only received one award in the lead category. Award Tallies (3) Mad Max: Fury Road…

  • Precursor: 19th Online Critics Awards (2015)

    The Online Film Critics Society announced their winners today. Mad Max: Fury Road won big while Carol came in second delivering both lead actresses awards with Rooney Mara unfortunately relegated to support after more members nominated it there than in lead. The only unusual selection they made was Oscar Isaac in Ex Machina, which hasn’t…

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

    Summer blockbusters dominated the awards nominations for the St. Louis Film Critics Association with Mad Max: Fury Road and The Martian topping all other films. Tied for third, Carol was apparently well acted, well written, well directed and well photographed, but not one of the best pictures of the year, a rather bizarre outcome. The…

  • This Day in Oscar History: December 13 (2015)

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

  • Precursor: 20th San Diego Critics Nominations (2015)

    While Mad Max: Fury Road had a great day, the big stories were the strong performances of Ex Machina, Brooklyn, The Martian and Room, which haven’t been performing nearly as well as this all season. Room has bee doing well, just not this well. Spotlight continues to pick up a handful of mentions, but not…

  • Precursor: 14th San Francisco Critics Nominations (2015)

    This group often has idiosyncratic choices and there are certainly several here that the Academy is unlikely to replicate. Love & Mercy is one of those films. The film hasn’t been playing nearly as well as it does here where it comes in second to Carol, which is an Oscar contender. Brooklyn has one of…

  • This Day in Oscar History: December 12 (2015)

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

  • Oscar in Box Office History (Week 50, 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…

  • 88th Oscars: Original Song Shortlist

    One of the last shortlists we’ll see, the Academy announced its 74 Original Songs eligible for consideration. The only omission I see immediately is that the cantina song from the new Star Wars movie isn’t on the list. Other than that, I don’t see anything, but I’m sure there’s some controversy brewing…either here or with…

  • Precursor: 9th Detroit Critics Nominations (2015)

    This is, to date, the most idiosyncratic set of nominations we’ve seen. Brooklyn has its best showing to date, but when a significant portion of the nominees selected aren’t going to compete very well at the Oscars, this list can be taken merely as it is: a group of critics’ choices, not a group of…

  • This Day in Oscar History: December 11 (2015)

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

  • Oscar Profile #265: Charlotte Rampling

    Born February 5, 1946 to painter Isabelle Anne and Olympic gold medalist, army officer, colonel and NATO commander Godfrey Lionel Rampling, (Tessa) Charlotte Rampling would emerge as one of the most distinguished actresses of our time. Educated in France and England, Rampling was a model before becoming an actress in 1965’s The Kanck…and How to…

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