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Category: Academy Awards

  • This Day in Oscar History: February 1 (2015)

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

  • Precursor: 19th Art Directors Guild Awards (2014)

    Suffice it to say, The Grand Budapet Hotel looks to be the only sure thing in the tech categories this year. Winning out over modest competition is one thing, but having its primary competition (Into the Woods) go down to a Marvel blockbuster suggests it should have smoother sailing from here on out. The only…

  • Precursor: 28th USC Scripter Awards (2014)

    With so few films making it through to the Oscars, a win here can only bolster the winner’s chance at the Academy Awards. This should definitely give it a bit of a boost, but a Writers Guild of America award would probably be more helpful at this point. The Awards Best Adapted Screenplay The Imitation…

  • Precursor: 23rd Annie Awards (2014)

    Winning only one award, The Lego Movie proved it wasn’t nearly as popular as many thought. That DreamWorks has an advantage with ASIFA’s Annie Awards only helped How to Train Your Dragon 2 capture 6 trophies, including Best Animated Feature. It gives those voting for the Oscar some guidance without Lego Movie in the competition.…

  • Precursor: 54th American Cinema Editors Awards (2014)

    It does not appear that anything can stop Boyhood. A film that may have spliced together 12 years of footage is still a rather conventional editing piece. When the guild has films like American Sniper, Gone Girl, Nightcrawler and Whiplash to honor, simply going with Boyhood is bandwagoning to the utmost. The Awards Best Drama…

  • This Day in Oscar History: January 31 (2015)

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

  • Oscar in Box Office History (Week 5, 2015)

    Every week, we’ll take a look back 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30 years into the box office past to explore how Oscar’s nominees were doing at the box office that weekend historically. All data is taken from Box Office Mojo. The first section under each year is the positioning of all Oscar nominees…

  • 2014 Precursor Predictions: USC Scripter Awards

    The USC Scripter Awards are given out by the University of Southern California Libraries as a fundraiser of sorts. They are shown live on the internet every year and are often a bit more entertaining and engaging than some televised awards shows. The award goes to the author of the original work and the screenwriter…

  • 2014 Precursor Predictions: Art Directors Guild

    The Art Directors Guild presents the best in production design in three categories covering period films, sci-fi and fantasy films and contemporary-set films. The period award is the most closely aligned with the Oscars.

  • 2014 Precursor Predictions: Annie Awards

    The Annie Awards are the premier organization honoring animation. They have a number of categories the Oscars don’t have (naturally) and they present them in an annual webcast presentation that has some funny moments, but is generally more weakly produced than their televised rivals. Thomas and I both made prediction in all categories, but we…

  • The Rundown 2014: Foreign Language Film

    For our second Rundown article, we look at a category that ended up competitive in a completely different way than we imagined. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Foreign Language Film as well as general commentary about the race. Next week, we’ll start off on Monday with a category…

  • This Day in Oscar History: January 30 (2015)

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

  • Oscar Profile #221: Roddy McDowall

    Born September 17, 1928 in London, England, Roderick (Roddy) MacDowell was the son of a merchant mariner and housewife mother, both of whom had an interest in the theatre. His older sister Virginia (1927-2006) and he were both child actors. He made his screen debut in 1938’s Murder in the Family as the younger brother…

  • 2014 Precursor Predictions: American Cinema Editors

    The American Cinema Editors are one of the oldest guilds in existence, at least in terms of which guilds give out awards. As such, they are a crucial forecaster of the Best Editing Oscar and can also give hints as to what films might just carry over to Best Picture wins.

  • The Rundown 2014: Original Music (Score & Song)

    For our first Rundown article, we are looking at the music categories. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best Original Score and Best Original Song as well as general commentary about the race. Friday, we’ll cover the first category where a major upset left one of the key competitors off…

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