Category: Academy Awards
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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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This Day in Oscar History: January 29 (2015)
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This Day in Oscar History: January 28 (2015)
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Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 9
As the precursor awards continue unabated until Oscar night, 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). Apologies first to failing to get this posted yesterday when I had intended. However, today is just as…
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This Day in Oscar History: January 27 (2015)
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This Day in Oscar History: January 26 (2015)
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Precursor: 21st Screen Actors Guild Awards (2014)
The winners have been announced and for the second time this weekend, Birdman wins a a victory over Oscar frontrunner Boyhood in a not-unexpected win, but certainly a disappointing one for the cast of The Grand Budapest Hotel. Noteworthy here is that in the guild’s 21-year history, this marks only the sixth time that no…
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Precursor: 19th Online Film & TV Association Nominations (2014)
An interesting batch of nominees that sticks close to Oscars’ nominations list, but strikes out in some unique and interesting directions. The biggest take away is that the OFTA does not appear to be enamored with The Theory of Everything, but definitely supports Nightcrawler, A Most Violent Year and Selma more so than does the…
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Precursor: 26th Producers Guild Awards (2014)
Of all the films that could have won this award, Birdman didn’t even seem like a strong competitor. Boyhood would have been the juggernaut choice, The Grand Budapest Hotel would have been the slick choice. American Sniper would have been the boffo box office choice and The Imitation Game would have been the Weinstein choice.…
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This Day in Oscar History: January 25 (2015)
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This Day in Oscar History: January 24 (2015)
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Oscar in Box Office History (Week 4, 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…
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2014 Precursor Predictions: Producers & Screen Actors Guilds
This weekend, two of the biggest guild precursors bring us our last real chances at upset victories. Looking over our predictions, there seems to be a lot of variance in many places, suggesting that no one is precisely certain how these sometimes-persnickety groups will vote. We still try to take a stab at it. The…
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This Day in Oscar History: January 23 (2015)
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Oscar Profile #220 – Sorting Out the Nominees
This week I thought it would be nice to do something a little different in light of last week’s Oscar nominations. The films with the most nominations among this year’s Best Picture nominees are Birdman and The Grand Budapest Hotel with nine each, followed by The Imitation Game with eight, American Sniper and Boyhood with…
