Category: Academy Awards
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Oscar Preview: Weekend of Nov. 20-22, 2015
We had two films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Carol With directors like Paul Thomas Anderson and Todd Haynes, you have to wait many years between releases, but you’re seldom disappointed as a result. Haynes’ Carol, which showed first at Cannes earlier this year and won Rooney Mara the award…
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88th Oscars: The Precursors Are Coming!
Tomorrow, Film Independent will announce its nominations for the annual Spirit Awards, a recognition of the best indie films released in 2015. With that, Oscar season will have officially begun and, after Thanksgiving, will begin snowballing through December, January and February culminating with the Oscars on Feb. 28. To get you prepared, I’ve put together…
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This Day in Oscar History: November 23 (2015)
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This Day in Oscar History: November 22 (2015)
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This Day in Oscar History: November 21 (2015)
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 47, 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 20 (2015)
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88th Oscars: Animated Short Film Shortlist
As expected, the live-action shorts are followed up by the animated shorts. It’s nice to see two more productions from the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) making an appearance. You might not recognize the name, but long before individuals received Oscars for their achievements in the short film categories, studios collected the prizes. The…
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88th Oscars: Live-Action Short Film Shortlist
The latest shortlist arrives today for the films eligible for the five slots for the Best Live-Action Short Film nomination. Below are the official entries: 10 LIVE ACTION SHORTS ADVANCE IN 2015 OSCAR® RACE
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Oscar Profile #262: Tilda Swinton
Born November 5, 1960 to Judith Balfor and the now 90-year-old Major-General Sir John Swinton, Katherine Mathilda Swinton can trace her distinguished lineage back to before the 11th Century Norman Conquest. Educated in three schools, she was a classmate and friend of Princess Diana. After a break to do volunteer work in Kenya, she graduated…
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This Day in Oscar History: November 19 (2015)
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2015 Oscar Predictions: November
For Oscar fans, There are three months of the year that have significance to them more than any other. In December, January and February, various organizations and guilds give out awards in anticipation of the biggest award of them all, the Academy Awards. It may seem hard to believe, but Oscar season officially begins with…
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This Day in Oscar History: November 18 (2015)
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This Day in Oscar History: November 17 (2015)
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Oscar Preview: Weekend of Nov. 13-15, 2015
We had three films release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations. Secret in Their Eyes In 2009, Juan Jose Campanella delivered one of the year’s most acclaimed foreign features about a retired detective writing a novel based on the events of years earlier wherein an unsolved case, an unrequited love and a…
