Category: Academy Awards
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Precursor: 24th Annie Awards Nominations (2015)
Once-dominant DreamWorks suffered an embarrassing defeat at the Annie Awards securing a meager 3 nominations for its sole entry this year. This may be the first time in awhile they haven’t shown up at the Oscars. Pixar is back in force with a total of 24 nominations in the feature film categories with Inside Out…
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This Day in Oscar History: December 1 (2015)
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Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 1
Now that Precursor Season has begun, 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). Before the Academy moved their annual awards up into February, precursor season didn’t start until the middle of December. Nowadays, the…
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Oscar Preview: Weekend of Nov. 26-29, 2015
We had three films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Creed 39 years ago, an upstart boxing drama became the year’s Best Picture winner. Rocky spawned a series of successful sequels and became one of those Oscar winners that you either love or are indifferent to. Now, we have a semi-reboot…
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This Day in Oscar History: November 30 (2015)
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This Day in Oscar History: November 29 (2015)
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This Day in Oscar History: November 28 (2015)
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 48, 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…
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This Day in Oscar History: November 27 (2015)
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Oscar Profile #263: Paul Muni
Born Frederich Meshilem Meier Weisenfreund on September 22, 1895 in Lemberg, Austria-Hungary (now Ukraine), Chicago reared Yiddish stage actor Muni Weisenfreund became one of Hollywood’s greatest stars after changing his name to Paul Muni. He married actress Bella Finkel after appearing with her on the Yiddish stage in 1921. Segueing from the Yiddish theater to…
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This Day in Oscar History: November 26 (2015)
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This Day in Oscar History: November 25 (2015)
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Precursor: 31st Spirit Awards Nominations (2015)
Todd Haynes’ film about a lesbian couple fighting against social mores, Carol, earns the top spot in the nomination tally for this year’s Spirit Awards. That’s all thanks to the double Best Female Lead nomination for Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara, a feat Harvey Weinstein didn’t seem inclined to want happening. Beasts of No Nation…
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This Day in Oscar History: November 24 (2015)
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Precursor: 27th PGA Documentary Nominations (2015)
What irritates me about this is that it’s a week earlier than my educated guess, largely because when I went to PGA’s website, I couldn’t find the information. Yet, here they are, a week earlier than expected. Regardless, the nominations are an interesting lot with Amy and The Look of Silence being the only ones…
